the fullness of tuesday
2012
I’m a girl who works best to a deadline. Provide me with long, endless days of no commitments – nothing to do except exactly as I please – and I am all a dither. On the rare instances that this happens, I mooch about, lost and lonely, waiting for the rest of my family to come home. Yep, give me hours on end of “me time” and I usually end up with not much to show for it.
But give me a cut off – must leave the house by 3.25 at the screamingly latest – and I am a flurry of activity. Such is a Tuesday. We start early – orchestra rehearsal for the cellist in the family starts at 7.30pm – and by 7.45, I have every minute until school pickup for the little girlies packed full.
Today, it was gloriously sunny and silly hot – a day of energy and promise – and oh I had plans! Of a line full of washing sparkling in the sun, a quick whip around the shops, fresh summery starts in the kitchen garden, the preparing of food for tonight’s supper (to be put on by Abby before I return home from babysitting) and some more for those suppers when none of us want to cook, podge for the feathered folk, bread that rose like a tall tale, second coffees on the front porch with my very first issue of the delicious Molly Makes (oh my! this magazine is so me, me, me!), and some super quick skirt making in a quirky dachshund fabric that makes me smile and think of my dear little Toph.
Oh I made the most of every second. There is some sweet chicken scratch that could be stitched whilst collapsed on the sofa, but you know, now, all I can think of is a nice bubbly soak in the tub and an early bed. A fit ending to a full day.
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It’s so nice to see you switching to “summer mode” when we are switching to “winter mode”. We put all the potted plants (minus the fuchsia, those were so lovely and blooming I said to keep them outside) into the basement.
In the nick of time it turns out. The fuchsia didn’t survive the night to Monday and all froze. Oops.
It’s disgustingly cold, my little daughter and I spent most of the afternoon snuggled into my bed sorting Halloween candy from Advent calendar candy and munching on those we deemed unfit for either occasion.
Side story… I went to Aldi this morning after Kindergarten drop off. To get some oatmeal, and cocoa powder and some yogurts. I walked out with an Overlocker and a half ton of candy instead, well, not instead, I got the actually needed things, too…
The overlocker scares me! So many little bitty things to thread thread through! I’ll need to figure it all out tomorrow when the little one is at kindy…
Hi Lily,
I’m definitely a deadline girl as well. Big cleaning plans for me today as well as dehydrating some onions the big fellow brought in from the garden. I would like to be more organised but I fail miserably. Too many lovely distractions out in the garden at the moment.
Blessings Gail