I'm not a natural homemaker. I don't practice enough. Well, I make home in that last night I massaged my girly's tense shoulders, and this morning snipped her hair so she looked uber-smart for her first day at high school. And last night I had her talk me through omelette making so I could make a decent one for her - even if I did end up grating cheesestrings into it - I'm not going to win any cheffing awards. So, I do home, but maybe not house. And certainly not ironing. It took me ages to find the iron, I'd not used it in so long. So I dutifully ironed a few new creases into the school shirts and even branched out from my usual sewing of name labels, and sewed on red ribbon to an otherwise plain black dress for tomorrow.
And whilst undertaking all this domesticity, I listened to a vast array of new songs courtesy of youtube. I enjoyed them so much I'm thinking of packing in paid work and taking up ironing/sewing along to music instead :D
my sister is going to be stopping overnight so I'd have liked the house to have been much cleaner than I've managed to get it so far. But time to find out how the first day went so domesticity on hold...
ReplyDeletea friend asked me earlier if I was at the stage of wondering why on earth I'd planned such a big celebration, which i casually waved off, cos apart from a few minor niggles, all was well. NOW I'M AT THAT STAGE! Feeling v stressy about how it will go and all that needs to happen beforehand, and what feels like a big deal - my family meeting (some of) Ben's family for the first time. I'm glad I'll be singing - maybe that's what's wrong - not enough singing today??
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