A friend and reader of my blog gave me a very stern talking to the other day. She said I am not updating my blog enough. I explained to her that my excuse, um I mean reason, was that I have been so busy living the life that blogging about the life had not been taking such a priority.
I do understand where she coming from though. I am always looking forward to the next post of some of my favourite sites as well. I have enjoyed the new frequency with which Libby blogs and I love that she writes about her ups and her downs and makes the rest of us feel so normal !
So, just for my friend and blog reader ( you know who you are!) I will write a post detailing all the in and outs of a day in my life. Switch off now for those of you who may be totally bored with this, lol.
Saturday 10th April.
I got out of bed at 4.30am and snuck into my office for some quiet time. I read, updated my list of what I was going to do for the day, downloaded some photos and checked my menu plan and shopping list.
Once the sun was up I got ready and went for a walk down along the river bank and watched a lonely rower make a small but rhythmic wake along the water. When I got home I did some weights.
After a shower and some breakfast I made beds, vacuumed rooms, did all the washing and tidied the kitchen. My eldest son helped me vacuum.
Next I went to IGA supermarket for some groceries and came home and baked cup cakes.
After hanging out all the washing on the line ( it was a perfect drying day) I came inside and set a timer for 15 minutes then I put my feet up and had a little power nap to revive me because I had started so early in the morning.
Once the timer went off I sprung back into it again.
I finished doing a few jobs round the house, said goodbye to the boys who were going off to ride their scooters and organised myself ready to go to a scrapbooking workshop.
I had stopped going to workshops for a little while, but found that I didn't devote enough time to really keeping my albums up to date. I love to record our family story and write letters to the boys about photos I have taken of them.
Here's a photo from my youngest son's album. He was a scooter freak even way back then!
So after a couple of hours of chatting and cutting up pieces of coloured paper for therapy I headed home.
The place where the workshop is held is way over the other side of town. I always take the back road home because it is a dirt track through farming land and I dream of what it would be like to live out there.
It's about 5.30pm when I get home and I make some pasta for dinner while the boys play ball games in the front yard. I call them in for a bath and notice that their feet are so black they have to take to them with a scrubbing brush! School holidays always means no shoes and lots of play!
Hubbie and I sit down to some cheese and biscuits and a glass of wine and then we all have dinner.
The boys go to bed and read/ play. The youngest one camps in the eldest boy's room when it is a weekend or school holidays. On school nights he sleeps in his own room because they giggle and fool around and don't get much sleep otherwise!
We sit down to watch a DVD. At the moment we are watching ( and loving!) the BBC's series, Life on Mars. I fall asleep while I am getting a lovely foot massage. When the end credits roll I wake up and hop into bed. By this time it is about 9.30pm and I am asleep before my head hits the pillow, ready for another bright and early morning.
4 comments:
Hi Michelle,
Loved the peak at a day in your life - as you know I enjoy doing posts like this and it was inspiring to read all that you packed into your day. I've really missed going to scrapbooking workshops and even though I take quite a few online classes, I feel like I've lost my way of late.
Anyway, like your other reader, I hope this post is the start of more frequent blog posts :-).
Libby
Sounds like a perfect day - apart from the 4:30 am start :)u
I like your scrapbooking photo! Obviously, it was a CM workshop (or you just have a lot of CM stuff!) - I've been doing CM for more than 6 years myself now as a consultant. I am thinking it might be time for a "break" from it soon as I need to step away from helping everyone else with their albums for a little while and focus on my own as I am getting more behind than what I like! (After more than 5 years, I have just gone back to "work outside the home" 3 days per week so my time is precious!) It's nice to hear about your day, and your blogs in general, even though I would not normally admit I like "blog sites" and would never really consider blogging myself, but I find your site a little more worthwhile, particularly because it's positive and constructive and often helpful! My mum and her mum grew up on a farm doing things the old way and because the farm has been sold long ago my own children will never have that "country" experience that I learned to love. So it's nice to be reminded of it all through your site. I guess this has now become my "blog" for the day! Shell
Aahh...thankyou...another fix from my favorite blogsite! I have to confess I've been lured into reading other blog sites recently, some of who have the time to blog every day! I was only just commenting to hubby recently that you must be so busy living the life that you have little time to blog, so good on you, living the philosophy and the dream. :)But please schedule time for posts a little more frequently, we love your stuff.
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