Day Three

Yay for sleep! The small boy slept in our bed last night, but was pretty settled, and I feel like a new woman! I only had to settle him three times! He also isn’t as clingy as he has been, so it will be a good day to get stuck into the housework.

I’ll double up on my focus rooms today, doing the kitchen & the bathroom. Hopefully I should be able to get the basics in both rooms done reasonably quickly, so may not bother about doing the full half hour as recommended.

I found that my menu plan didn’t fall down last night, DS was happy to sit on the bench beside me while I peeled pumpkin & sliced chicken, and DH was home in time to play with the boy while I prepared the risotto. Tonight’s dinner is lasagne, I must remember to take the mince out of the freezer this morning!

Manic Monday!

It doesn’t take long for another week to roll around, does it? We had a lovely weekend, pottering in the garden, chilling out, and generally taking things easy. I found some time to work on my new quilt, and DH hung my curtains last night – photos to come! The weekend did end on a sour note though, with a small boy unwell and coughing all night. I think he may have croup, if it doesn’t improve soon I’ll head off to the doctor with him.

Today’s focus rooms are the bedrooms, and I’m going to nominate a procrastination task for today – to sort out at least one drawer of clothes & bundle up those which don’t fit/don’t get worn ready to take to the op-shop. I’m going to keep going on projects this week, I really want to get stuck into this quilt, and try & get back into my scrapbooking. My plan at this stage is to sew in the day (during nap times), and scrapbook of a night, so that I am doing a bit of both.

Speaking of new routines & habits, all my new habits are going so well, I decided to introduce another one, a week early. I’m starting menu planning! I find it really hard to get inspired for meal ideas at 4pm, so now I’m planning a week in advance, and shopping to a list. The first grocery shop has been done, and we managed to not buy a single thing that wasn’t on the list! I’m doing weekly plans at this stage, but may bump it up to fortnightly once I’m in the swing of things, it just depends on how it all works together.