Sunday Morning Joys

Smallering

Definition: the act of reducing or making smaller

It could probably be defined as "focusing", too. I want my time and thoughts to be more focused on the things that will help me feel happy and peaceful, so I'm letting go of a few things. 

Life just needs to be small for me right now: clean and well planned out and uncluttered, instead of big and messy and complicated - heaven knows there's enough of that going on already.

Things Will Be Okay

"It's Gonna Be A Rough Day"

It was exhausting, but not too bad. I remembered to be gentle to myself. Work was fine.

Shrink was right about my day, although it wasn't so much rough as exhausting. I worked till 6 and was on duty as soon as I came home, but I couldn't be Fun Happy Gran last night for the babies - they had to settle for Ready To Crash Gran. 

We still had fun and went to the park with R (B and Goober made it as far as the park before Goober started acting like a complete moron and B had to take him home).

Getting Back Into It

March was a hard month. It just was. There were transitions and realizations and adjustments. 

Tomorrow the shrink is going to ask if I've been taking pictures or blogging and I want to tell her "yes", so here we are.

Later: It was a good day at work, a great night with B and R and the babies. I ended the evening mending and ripping the trim off of an old white twin bedspread. Eventually I'll be sewing two of them together, for our bed. Hooray for productivity!

The Six Basic Needs

I need to figure a few things out.

1. Food

2. Water

3. Shelter/Clothing

4. Sleep

5. Others

6. Novelty

"You crazy old womern"

(doing my "Oklahoma!" accent)

Feeling better today. I drank coffee for the first time in a few days (I think I've been underestimating its medicinal effects) and so far have been mightily motivated.

1. Adopt One Block: They shipped the free supplies - claw, gloves, and garbage bags - weeks ago, and today was my maiden pick-up-litter voyage around the block. Here's what I found:

Wednesday the black kitty followed me the whole way around. He follows the other family members at night when Goober gets his walk around the neighborhood, too. So cute. It was fun to have company. 

2. Today's timer game (every day brings a new one): 15 minutes cleaning or dishes or laundry; the next 15 minutes, same; 30 minutes, either cleaning out the craft room or completing a project. So far, so good. 

3. Down in the craft area (aka "Physician, heal thyself"): CRAP I'd love to get rid of.

Some stuff I did:

Unboxed more yardage. Do I have enough? Should I buy more? 

Ironed scraps

Made a few nice piles

...and I moved some stuff around, decluttered, just played - mended some stuff, picked apart a pair of old sleeves so I can use the fabric, rolled up a ball of yarn. It was domestic perfection. 

Later: Kitty Magenta is snuggling someone in her dreams

And: Baby C is enjoying Frozen for the umpteenth time

Thank FSM For My Shrink

Today she told me to rest. So I am. 

Tonight we ate dinner at H's place of employment and met his girlfriend, A (finally!). Her family is visiting from Idaho, and we met them too. They'd never been to the PNW and H has been having fun traveling around with them to all the local stuff. They'd never seen the ocean before and he enjoyed watching them experience it for the first time. A is totally sweet. I have high hopes for them!

Personal Inventory

Walking in the Rain

Heading Home

Tortilla Flat and Superstition Mountain

We have a knitter

Yesterday's trip to J*ann is bearing happy fruit. She's having a great time. 

Carefree and Wearing Green

The kind of day I'm having

Spring Forward

It's business as usual around here tonight.

That intense little face!

In other news: the laptop is fixed and back home again. I spent the morning with it, playing with obituaries and marriage records. Then, H came over and we ate pizza. M went to work and the babies had a bubble bath and dinner. B saw a movie, and Hubby and R went to shop for swimsuits. There's a trip in the works!