10 Days to reclaim your help. Days 9&10

Day 9 Day 9 Finish taking the decorations from the tree – all of them – in their boxes. I'll look at the tree and find myself firmly rooted to the sofa. Somehow it seems like everything I need to take off the tree hits me at once ( I am being tested for ADHD soon) and the fear at the size of the job, overwhelms me. So I set a timer and do 5/10/15 minutes at a time. It doesn't work for eveyone but it works for me. If it seems too much do it at 10 minutes or 10 ornaments at a time. If you are one of the lucky ones who can do it in one sitting – do it in one, start at the start and finish when the lights are away. Search the house for any other decorations and gather them all up in the same place. Well done – job done!!

And Rest

Day 10 – Put all the boxes away, the tree away or out to the dump; if it’s a real one – take the pruning shears and cut away – prune the tree down to a manageable slice.

Put the decorations back in their cupboard/loft/wardrobe. PUT THEM AWAY and then congratulate yourselves – you’ve done amazingly welll.