Cold and flu season

Well, the bug that has been travelling around my family finally caught up with me last week.
I thought I had been doing pretty well not to fall ill, since I'm usually the first in the family to get any bug, but I think it was just biding its time in order to hit me hard. I've spent the last week coughing, spluttering, sneezing, blowing my nose and trying to take it easy to recover. I think the tide has finally turned and I'm on the mend, but still not totally well unfortunately.
I still managed to make some good progress on writing up my detailed timetable (it's so nearly finished). It's been a really helpful process for working out how I actually want to spend my time. I watched a tiny bit of Joyce Meyer this morning, where she made the great point that what we spend our time on is where our heart is. I want my heart to be with God, with my family, with my friends, with my garden, with my craftwork. I don't want to have a heart for TV watching or lazing around, which I feel I've fallen into a bit of late. So writing my timetable has been very timely. I've made sure that I've set aside some designated couple time and family time and my husband insisted that I set aside some rest time so that I feel refreshed and not frustrated when I'm busy with housework or other tasks. Being a submissive wife can be such a blessing at times like this!
I think I should finally finish the timetable today, and am hoping to have some good God-time as well. It's been too long since I've set aside proper time for bible-reading and prayer, but I've got a nice chunk of time set aside each day now, so I'm hoping that will be helpful.

Time to shake it up

I've decided that it's time to change the way I organise my daily routine. I've had a few various strategies over the last year.
My 'lucky dip' housework method worked beautifully, until my gorgeous boy got old enough to stand up at the table where I kept my paper slips and grab them. Very cute, but not very helpful to the organisation process.
I've also had a few timetables, particularly when bubba was small, to ensure that he spent time on all the various activities he was meant to be doing.
Then for a while I used an app called Daily Notes, which was really helpful, however they don't allow you to have fortnightly tasks, and I have lots of these. After waiting over 5 months for an upgrade to include this, I've given up and am embarking on a new timetable.
I spent last night drawing up a grid on A1 paper so I can have all 7 days, with columns for each of us, going from 6 in the morning until 8:30 at night.
Hopefully this will be thorough enough! I'm hoping that having our routines written out will ensure that both hubby and I get some designated down time.
So I'm spending today reflecting on how I spend my time, and what should happen at various times. Wish me luck!

Blessings

Feeling very blessed today to have such a great supportive network of friends and family around me. It's too easy to take them for granted, but I'm really feeling aware of how cared for I am. In-laws to babysit, friends to visit, parents to ring and check how all our various ailments are going as well as inviting us around to tea. Trully blessed.

What a week!

I'm still playing catch-up at the moment. After such a busy, emotional week, both hubby and bubby are down with horrid colds, and I managed to injure my back. So I'm playing nurse as well as catching up on the chores that I missed during the chaos. Yesterday I think I finally turned the tide- the kitchen actually got cleaned and I even snuck in a bit of gardening and sewing as well as looking after my menfolk. Today is such a perfect drizzly, grey, indoors kind-of day. I'm looking forward to a hearty soup for lunch to chase away the winter chills, baking a chocolate and beetroot cake and hopefully finishing off a sewing project.

So tired...

After spending nearly all day at a family funeral yesterday, I'm so tired this morning, but will have to wait a little while longer to get back into my normal restful living, since today is very full with friends visiting and a wedding. All good, enjoyable things today, but I will still relish the rest when it comes. I've found that emotional days take as much out of you as physically active days. Why is that?

Try again!

So, who knew that babies kept you busy? My good intentions of keeping a blog went somewhat out the window once my gorgeous little boy arrived. Coupled with using a different computer that didn't have all my favourite blogs bookmarked, I lost the blogging mood. However, I've just gone through a period of reorganising and rediscovering the blog world, so I'm determined to have another go.
So here I am.
I'm loving doing the mum thing, and being able to stay at home because of that. I've been able to spend much more time in the garden, more time cooking and sewing and just general slowing down compared to work life.
Here's hoping that, this time, I'll be able to keep up a regularish blog!