Tidying up…
cooking… cleaning… washing… working…
All essential tasks for everyday living,
but not exactly exciting stuff for writing about, are they? During the couple
of weeks following my last published blog post, that’s what my life mainly consisted
of with hardly any let up in between. Why? Firstly, it was just because I’m a
wife and mother, and that’s what we do. Secondly, it was due to our holiday
that I was so desperately saving up for and working towards.
Tightening
the budget didn’t seem to have any major impact on anyone. Most of us were
desperate for the break the holiday would give us- Mike works too hard in a job
that pays the bills, but gives little satisfaction; the children work hard in
school with little free time in the evenings; I never get to spend any quality
time with any of them; and of course we had all had the flu bug going around
for so long that it was easy to forget what ‘normal’ felt like any more.
It probably
helped that we tend to live carefully anyway- even if we had the money spare I couldn’t
imagine going out to the shops and buying anything ‘just because’. I don’t
particularly enjoy shopping in any form anyway, and that includes the weekly
grocery shop- by doing it online I can dip in and out of over the course of a
day or two and not get too bogged down by the mundane everyday items needed.
Tightening the shopping list further therefore made little difference to
anyone- only the price I had to pay at the checkout!
With spring
still a fair way around the corner for the majority of those couple of weeks, I
could concentrate on getting Little Dolly Clothes Shop up to date before going
away- my aim was to make up and send out all but the very latest orders, so
that I could relax while on holiday, instead of keeping thinking about the work
I had outstanding at home! Over two weeks I managed to complete about eight
orders- some of which consisted of several items, and it was with a very
satisfied feeling that I unplugged the sewing machine on the Friday before we
went away. The oldest order left outstanding had only come in six days before,
so perfectly reasonable to leave for another week before sewing.
I also
wanted to end my Winter Sale before we left, and add my summer items to the
store. Somehow though, the weather just didn’t put me in the mood for it- I
couldn’t imagine anyone going online just to buy a summer dress for a doll, if
they were unlikely to be buying one for themselves for several weeks! I made
the decision therefore to end the sale over Easter weekend, once we were back
home, thereby giving me plenty of free time to add the new items gradually
before the children were back in school.
Once the
weather began looking a little more cheerful, I found that old feeling of
needing to spring clean kicking in again! I think the fact that I was trying to
get up to date with the business before relaxing probably had a bit of a knock
on effect here too- I felt like I just wanted life and housework sorted and
organised so that I was free for the week away, without imagining the cleaning
calling to me while I was there!
So other
than a day off for Mother’s Day (lovely dinner cooked by my eldest daughter,
flowers, home-made cards, family time etc.) the final two weeks in March went by
in a blur of cleaning, tidying worktops and table tops that always seem to
collect clutter, frantically sewing orders, and spending long evenings working
my way down the ironing mountain! All very mundane- but all very essential
tasks, and very satisfying once finished.
And all tasks which helped towards
the goal of me managing to have a relaxing holiday by the sea…
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