If you follow my other blogs then you already know that two of my step-children (aged twelve and fifteen) have come to live with us. I am finding this a huge strain with the fibromyalgia, as I have to get up earlier to see them off to school and I have to bake more regularly and cook by a certain time in the evening. In addition to this, as we only have a one-bedroom house, we all have to go to bed when the youngest is tired. This is usually around 9pm. Of course, I am usually tired enough to sleep by this point, but not everyone is. This means that tensions are high while we wait for a suitable house to become available for us to move to.

I don’t know whether the children being here are helping the fibromyalgia or whether having the fibromyalgia is helping the children get used to me or what… I do know, however, that the stress is not good for any of us.