Yes tidy house does it for me. OK, tidy room. OK, one made bed if I'm going to be realistic!

And a clean sink. I have just discovered how good this makes me feel and now clean it virtually every day.

DP and I have been dealing with some longstanding issues (renos, financial stuff, his XW and DSD, me being in chronic pain) and it has felt for an awfully long time that we have not been making headway and every day is like the last. So what worked for me was telling myself each night that I may not have got many/anything done on my list but I had done THE most important thing which is looking after DD and making sure she's happy.

This week I've been waking up at 4am every morning and not being able to go back to sleep because there's been too much going on in my head. I can't normally nap during the day either but told myself today that I had to and went to bed saying this mantra (and I'm SO not a mantra person) ... "the world is calm. There is no problem that you have to solve in the next hour so go to sleep." Worked like a charm!