After
worrying that the snow would be melted by the time we drove up onto the hills
yesterday, it actually stayed cold and bright all day. And it’s still frosty
today, but once again lovely and bright. Even though it’s below freezing, it
looks so lovely outside in the sunshine that it’s easy to get going for the day-
always a good start on a Monday morning!
I start the
day the same way that most of my days begin- loading the washing machine,
washing up from breakfast, checking up on emails and the website etc. by which
time it’s getting on for lunchtime- as usual. There are some bits that need
buying for people- boots and plimsolls mainly, so I get on and order those
before lunch and do some more blog drafting whilst I eat, and publish what I hope
will be the first of two blog posts today. Mike’s taken the completed order
from the weekend with him today so he can post it for me, so I send the
dispatch email to my customer and close the order on the website- always a good
feeling.
I’m making a
casserole for dinner tonight, so as that can wait till later I get the sewing
machine out and try to get the next order completed and ready to send out. It’s
another bedding order, so is fairly straightforward to make up, and I should be
able to finish it today. Before Christmas I actually managed to cut a few
bedding sets worth of fabric out ahead of time, and I still have enough left
for the set I need to sew this afternoon.
The pink bedding set was one of the
first ones I added to the site, and it is still very popular. Even better, the
same fabric is still easily available to buy so I can keep this design going
for a while longer yet. The pattern is a patchwork of nursery blocks- teddy
bears, ABC, rattles etc. and I think it’s appeal lies in the fact that it is
pretty and girlie, without being over ‘flowery’. It will be a hard one to
replace when eventually I can no longer buy it, so I always make sure I have a
good stock of the fabric, giving me plenty of time to look for an alternative
when I have to.
At half past
two I’m nearly finished when I realise I need to take a break and prepare dinner.
As I need to leave to pick our youngest up in about forty minutes, I should
have just about enough time to get everything peeled, chopped and added to the
pot before going down to the school to collect her. Hopefully I should then
have time to finish the sewing while dinner cooks itself, and before Mike
gets home for the Brownies run, so he can take the parcel to the post office
for me while in town. I’m nearly done when I notice how quickly time has been
marching on, so I leave the carrots unchopped and run down the road to get her.
Not bad going- they will take hardly any time to cut up after school and my day can
stay on track.
Except that
as soon as I am back in the door I get caught on the phone to our eldest
daughter who has finished work for the day and wants a chat while waiting for
her bus. This is lovely, but doesn’t get the carrots added to dinner. Then Mike
rings to say he’s just leaving work, and obviously has time to spare on the way
to the car. I put the phone down and head back to dinner, just as the phone
rings again- oldest daughter with an update of what she’s just bought me from
the shops for her sister’s cookery lesson tomorrow…
Sometimes I
wonder how I actually manage to achieve anything round here- but somehow the
dinner ends up in the oven, and as the casserole is only a sausage one it doesn’t
need too many hours to cook. With so little of the bedding set left to sew, I
somehow manage, just, to finish it and get it parcelled up before Mike pops
home briefly to pick it and our Brownie up and head straight back out. With a
second blog post published before dinner, I’m now back up to date with where I
was two days ago, and can now relax for the evening feeling I’ve had a really
good start to the week. Relax that is, once I’ve tidied up, chased children to
bed, ironed the school and work shirts for tomorrow…
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