We have been back in the country a month now and we have been back at school 3 weeks. I want to record some of my thoughts of being here.
The thing that has struck me currently is time. That's one thing I didn't truly appreciate about GYIL. Now I don't seem to have the time to be doing the little things I'd like to be doing. I haven't knitted as much as I wanted, baked as much, done as many things on my to do list, blogged, phoned friends, made photobooks, touched my diary. School I guess takes up a lot of time and is tiring. The evenings just seem to pass. It was a bit better in the week before school started. Maybe I need to wait till half term. But that seems sad. Maybe I just need to lower my expectations or plan in something each day to do. Maybe instead of reading blogs over breakfast I could have computer set up to photobook/video. I'd like to move the to do list to the kitchen counter. Have a plan of when to cook, rather than waiting till there is time.
I'm going to make a list (hehe, as that seems to be what I like to do) of the things I have achieved so I feel a bit better and encouraged:
- I've knitted three segments of a ball
- I baked two cakes before school started, some disastrous muffins after school started (or August, not am), some nice rolls and on Thursday some short bread. Need to work out how to get it out the mould (just found some ideas on Lakeland while looking up whether mould has a u!).
- have done photos in Australia photobook - still need to do labels
- have finished Leicester book and started HBP.
- lots unpacked at house and bags gone to charity shop. Still need shelves up in spare room.
- had two lots of friends round for a meal.
- three or four episodes of ER.
- Scottish dancing twice
- thirsty meeples once
- Rose Hill Runners and Parkrun once each.
I'm thinking I need to get out of bed and have a go at some photobook things.
I'll just blog about one more aspect of being home. It's very easy to stop appreciating the nice things about home. I am having to keep reminding myself that these things are good. Instead of being disappointed that I didn't manage to get a load of washing in before bed, I should be happy that it's so easy to do tomorrow. Instead of feeling tired reading in bed at night, be glad that I'm still able to read and enjoy. I have been enjoying waitrose online shopping and meal planning and cooking - yay!
Well, at least I can tick off blog and maybe get up and do something else productive now!
Happy (random) photos since being back:
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