Playgroups can be fun, but I've had many a grumpy, Advil-loaded day afterwards (to get rid of playgroup-induced headache).

My recipe to get out of a funk is get kids to bed a little early, tidy up, rent a movie.

Feel better!  

My cure is usually to get outside (unless it's pouring) and get my body moving.  Something about the outdoors makes my mood alter.  But if outside isn't an option, I love a good hot shower (I'm not so much a bath person, but sometimes that feels great too).  Other than that, it sometimes just takes time passing to feel better.  I hope you do soon.

And they come in groups for me...so I have bad weeks it seems. I recommend loud music and dancing with the kids. You might not feel like it, but laughing and dancing when you feel miserable can lift your mood a bit. I recommend take away pizza for tonight and a movie. Suspend all rules and make your life easy. If there's a teenager on your street that is bored, pay them a bit of money (they're cheap) to come and entertain the kids for a bit. My next door neighbour's daughter has saved my sanity (and my kids' lives) many a time!

SAHM,WAHM, WOHM - whatever your acronym LOLOL

The main thing that gets me through them is knowing it will eventually end.

Probably too late now, but in your situation, I would have stayed away from dumb TV and gotten into bed early with a good book.  It always feels very indulgent to me - if DH is here, I feel like I want to talk to him, or should be at least available to talk.

Still trying to recover from Christmas day...thought I felt well enough to go grocery shopping with my husband this evening.  Not really...and I finished my last batch of books and was expecting my new order in today.  Did they come?  Nooooo.......so, now I'm bored, don't feel like being up and around very much and quite frankly, I'm tired of watching programming all about Pakistan.

in January or February for me.  The holidays are over, and it's gray and cold out.  Not much else happening.  Spring seems sooooo far away.  

I try to keep as busy as possible.  I've made a pact with myself to try and stay physically active throughout the winter.  I've got a lot of projects lined up-- painting our bedroom and painting some furniture for the kids' rooms.  Hopefully that'll be enough to keep my spirits up.

I second Karen's recommendation to get outside.  Something about changing your scenery can do wonders.  Even if it is cold and gray out.

Everyone around me seems to be falling like dominoes, sick with puking and diarrhea (including the baby, at one point). Knock on wood, I've been spared.

I'm sick of all of them being sick, and I'm sick of the snow -- it's like a BLIZZARD today and it took about 1 1/2 hours to drive only about 20 miles from the country into town to get to work.

It's just dreary and yucky outside here.

I plan on trying to sneak out of here early, so I don't have to drive in the blizzard after dark. And then I hope to curl up on the couch with the baby and watch a movie -- something funny.

I hope you feel better today, Stacey. Cheer up, and know that all of us are standing with you. :)

for the bad day blues: a hot cup of tea (or substitute wine/beer etc), a bubble bath after DS goes to bed, and watching a cheesy chick flick that DH has no interest in or a marathon of Bravo or the Food Network.

If I can't wait until DS goes to bed and dinner still needs to be made I order out and have it delivered! :)