The laundry is still untidy and unclean! I did get up and get dressed and got moving and cleaned and tidied the kitchen, but then I was asked out to lunch by my Mum. Who can resist an lunch invite, especially when it is from your mum!! So instead of cleaning the laundry I decided it could wait til another day but my Mum could not. I seized the day.
We had a nice lunch at the local nursery cafe and wondered around looking at the plants -but I bought nothing! Very proud of myself!!
I an very happy to report though that the kitchen is still tidy with a clean sink 4 days later. A good achievement if I do say so myself. I have told all of the family of my new expectations in the kitchen ans that I expect to wake to a clean kitchen every morning, so if they dirty it after I have gone to bed they clean it! So far so good. Tommorrow I intend to :
-Get up and get dressed
-Clean up the kitchen
-Do a load of laundry
-Tidy up the lounge room
-Take a load of clothes to the Op Shop
-Have morning tea with my Mum.
Lets see how that goes! Then of course it is back to work tomorrow night !
I pray you all have a safe and happy week!
Sunday 1 April 2012
Wednesday 28 March 2012
A few goals for tomorrow
I have done it again.... I slept all day instead of a few hours and now it is 1am and I am wide awake. So I have been thinking about what I would like to achieve tomorrow.
I have been reading Flylady's blog about decluttering the home and realising what she says is true - it didn't get cluttered and dirty in a day so it wont get cleaned and sorted in a day! Allowing myself to realise this makes it easier to deal with. So I thought I would set a few goals for tomorrow and then go to bed and read which might make me tired!!
Thursday goals
- Tidy the kitchen
- Clean out the laundry
(It is only a small room so it shouldn't take long)
- Have lunch outside in the fresh air in my garden
- Do some sewing for fun
- Cook dinner from scratch
(I do this most nights but it sounds good to say it out loud!!)
- Go to my Patchwork class in the evening.
Hopefully I will wake feeling good and even if I don't I will get up and get dressed and get moving as I now have a plan.
I think we can expect too much from ourselves sometimes and when we don't achieve it all we beat ourselves up over it - well I know I do, but I think it is time to be kind to myself. I don't like to think that I have to spend all day working in my home as I want to enjoy my time on my days off. I feel it makes me a better person to spend some time doing things I enjoy, creative things. And lets face it my kids deserve a happy Mum!!
Until next time friends, God bless.
I have been reading Flylady's blog about decluttering the home and realising what she says is true - it didn't get cluttered and dirty in a day so it wont get cleaned and sorted in a day! Allowing myself to realise this makes it easier to deal with. So I thought I would set a few goals for tomorrow and then go to bed and read which might make me tired!!
Thursday goals
- Tidy the kitchen
- Clean out the laundry
(It is only a small room so it shouldn't take long)
- Have lunch outside in the fresh air in my garden
- Do some sewing for fun
- Cook dinner from scratch
(I do this most nights but it sounds good to say it out loud!!)
- Go to my Patchwork class in the evening.
Hopefully I will wake feeling good and even if I don't I will get up and get dressed and get moving as I now have a plan.
I think we can expect too much from ourselves sometimes and when we don't achieve it all we beat ourselves up over it - well I know I do, but I think it is time to be kind to myself. I don't like to think that I have to spend all day working in my home as I want to enjoy my time on my days off. I feel it makes me a better person to spend some time doing things I enjoy, creative things. And lets face it my kids deserve a happy Mum!!
Until next time friends, God bless.
Saturday 18 February 2012
Odd sleep patterns lead to....
Well what you don't know about me is that I work night shift a couple of nights a week (Yes I am a nurse!). I really like my work and find it very rewaradiing but it has a down side - Odd sleep patterns. Take today for example: I got home from work at 8am and went to bed for a few hours as I am not working tonight. However, I slept for much longer thatn I intended and now I am wide awake!
The house is quiet as everyone sleeps and this lends itself to lots of sewing, but I haven't had much luck tonight. I did sew the binding onto a wallhanging quilt and now this needs finishing, but I tried to make a block for my Quilt Block Swap partner and got my measurements all wrong, so now I have to start again. It is not a total waste I like the block I made and will use it somewhere when absolute size does not matter, such as a note book cover, but I do not enjoy the thought of a fail and then the need to repeat.
So I suppose today's lessons are that we need to keep trying til we get it right - Never give up and Measure twice - cut once!! Oh well back to the cuttingboard !!
Happy sewing and crafting all !!
The house is quiet as everyone sleeps and this lends itself to lots of sewing, but I haven't had much luck tonight. I did sew the binding onto a wallhanging quilt and now this needs finishing, but I tried to make a block for my Quilt Block Swap partner and got my measurements all wrong, so now I have to start again. It is not a total waste I like the block I made and will use it somewhere when absolute size does not matter, such as a note book cover, but I do not enjoy the thought of a fail and then the need to repeat.
So I suppose today's lessons are that we need to keep trying til we get it right - Never give up and Measure twice - cut once!! Oh well back to the cuttingboard !!
Happy sewing and crafting all !!
Saturday 4 February 2012
Finding my way around
Saturday 4th February 2012 11.58pm
Tonight I am finally writing somethingon my new blog. It sounds a bit silly as I have had this page for a week or 2 but I didn't know what to write about. But tonight I have been looking around and reading some other blogs, patterns and sites and WOW there are so many amazing talented and generous people out there.
I have just found out about FNSI - Friday Night Sew-In and I am really looking forward to joining in and knowing ther are gals all over the world sewing along with me!!
For tonight though I need to stop reading and looking and get back to quilting my wallhanging.
Til next time!!
Cheers & God bless .
Tonight I am finally writing somethingon my new blog. It sounds a bit silly as I have had this page for a week or 2 but I didn't know what to write about. But tonight I have been looking around and reading some other blogs, patterns and sites and WOW there are so many amazing talented and generous people out there.
I have just found out about FNSI - Friday Night Sew-In and I am really looking forward to joining in and knowing ther are gals all over the world sewing along with me!!
For tonight though I need to stop reading and looking and get back to quilting my wallhanging.
Til next time!!
Cheers & God bless .
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