Hi mip family. I've been diagnosed with a case of dengue fever this week. A comparatively mild but nonetheless very unpleasant strain which is finally beginning to ease this afternoon. It's left me easily fatigued and generally weak and tired. The family have been living on takeout and canned beans, canned soup and toast for a few days. I'm grateful that the headache has stopped and the joints and muscles are no longer aching, it was really yuck. My children have copped a fair bit of grumpy mother as a result the poor darlings and I am very disappointed that I am not mother Theresa. They in their youth are alot closer to sainthood and I am forgiven easily. Undoubtedly there will be therapy in their future and I only hope that my own wounding doesn't wound them irreparably. I'm working on it and isn't there always work to be done on the inside. Current frustrations include my 6 year old frequently wetting herself, which is triggering me beyond reason. It's silly of me. I had the same issue and was treated abusively harshly. Being I'll it became apparent that my darlings are very dependent on me to direct them in the mornings. I felt very frustrated by feeling like i couldn't even have dengue fever in peace lol lol lol. They ended up going to school with no shoes one morning which really disappointed me. The ridiculous thing is, we live in the islands and shoes aren't requisite and get taken off outside anyway. Seriously who cares? But I did. 

So overall I have more work to do on myself as a mother and a parent. We managed to go shopping today and I'm going to put an actual meal on in my handy dandy slow cooker before cleaning and organising the house which has that yucky stagnant due to illness feeling about it. 

Have a great weekend all.