So, it's been four months, or 17 years in global pandemic time.
What in the Hell? Bill Gates told us it was coming, but we always underestimate him, don't we? We are stuck in this weird limbo of not leaving our homes, but trying to stay connected. Frankly, I am not making the most of this time off, unless you count breaking all of my previous screen time records.
Here is a list of things I thought I could get accomplished while I have 24/7 uninterrupted time with my family:
1. Exercise every day.
2. Clean out all of the closets and the junk drawers.
3. Develop a filing system to manage the mountains of paper("paperless society," ha!)
4. Weed the yard.
5. Clean the storage rooms(inside and outside).
6. Make something!
7. Write beautiful blogs once a week.
8. Journal, with gratitude.
9. Spend lots of quality time building up my children and encouraging them to do good things.
10. Spend lots of quality time with my hubs, building him up and encouraging him to do good things.
11. Keep a bottle of wine in the fridge for more than 1 day.
12. Take the dogs on long, brisk walks to get out in nature.
Here is how it's working out:
1. I have 8 workouts recorded on my fitness app. So 8/30 days(27%). To be fair, the other day, I forgot what I was doing so I went up and down the stairs about 10 times in 10 minutes, so I feel like that counts as 9/30(30%).
2. I tried to clean out the closet under the stairs(even before we had a tornado warning), but it is filled with things to be shredded and the shredder died a very stinky, electrical-burning smell death after about 30 minutes. I mean, I tried. Also, I cleaned out my armoire and gave my 90's neckerchiefs to my children to repurpose as headbands. Also, found a flannel nightshirt that came in really handy last night when we dropped to the 40's! TWO WINS!!
3. Yeah, no.
4. Um, no.
5. So, no.
6. I have done some art with my friend, Mama D, via Facebook Live. And made a watercolor of a tree. I hand-embroidered some gifts. I hand-sewed a mask because my sewing machine is buried in the storage closet(and I think it's broken, can't remember). GO ME!
7. I'm working on this one! 1/4(25%)
8. The first few days, I wrote down my plan for what the kids should do in case Michael and I got coronavirus and died. Not exactly uplifting, but maybe necessary? (hey kids, it's in a spiral notebook by my bed.) One of the things is #3, so I guess I should get on that. I have been trying to think grateful thoughts, and I am putting on my perspectacles, (https://momastery.com/blog/2014/08/11/give-liberty-give-debt/) to keep myself in check when I get down in the dumps. We may be eating bread out of a can today, and we have more than we can eat today.
9. I am spending lots of time with my children. I am encouraging them to go to their rooms a lot(also demanding that). We are talking a lot about boundaries and reading over peoples' shoulders and putting our feet on others and why 10 minutes of math a day has never killed anyone. And also, we are all still alive and mostly functioning, so WINNING ALL AROUND.
10. Does the question "how many beers have you had?" count as building someone up? Hmm. I have started hugging him again, now that he hasn't shown any symptoms. Wife of the Year🎖
11. So, I don't have wine EVERY day. When I do, I like to commit. But I have managed to leave one glass in the bottle twice now. WHAT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
12. Someone has walked a dog everyday. We have 2 dogs, so not 100%. Zelda, our tiny Weim, struggles with the world beyond our fence. She's afraid of everything. Walking with her is a challenge because, first, she wants to wrap herself around you so that she is as close to you as possible. And second, her goal on a walk is to get back home, so she runs towards the house at top speed, even if you are walking away from the house(wrapped up in her leash). Zelda does get frisbee time every day and frisbee is her passion, so yay. Pepper, our chill-except-around small-mammals-and-some-other-dogs, likes to poop in the street, which makes things fun. 100%, because dogs can't do math!
I am doing my best and it's not great, but it's all I have. Hope you are all doing your best and being kind to yourselves and WASHING YOUR HANDS! Stay home and maybe I will write something else. But, maybe not.
Love,
Corks
