Happy Homemaker Monday: February 3, 2025
I'm honestly trying, y'all. I had big hopes of posting early this morning, but things got outta hand pretty quickly and somehow I ended up elbows deep in tubers and then at Lowe's Hardware, buying potting soil. Ah, the flower farmer life, right? Anyway, moving onto this week's Happy Homemaker Monday
The weather in my neck of the woods: It's unseasonably warm, after a week and a half of unseasonable cold, so I'm enjoying it and keeping my mouth shut lest February hears me and starts behaving like February. We're back into more seasonable temps (high 30's as the high and high 20's as the low) next week, but after -3 degrees, I think I can do that standing on my head.
As I look outside my window: There's so much sunshine and it makes me so happy. My chamomile is coming back and amazingly, my strawberries survived the frigid cold.
Right now, I am: Sitting in my bedroom, typing up this post. Mentally cringing on how many mistakes I have to go back and correct because I am not on my phone and there's no autocorrect here, ha. Texting my friend about journaling. She says she wishes she could get more into it, I say there's no time like the present.
Thinking and pondering: Dreaming about my garden. Rushing myself through this post so I can get outside with Goose and maybe go to the park. Wondering where the heck my camera charger ran off to.
On my bedside table: My coffee mug, books, notebooks, a carousel of markers and pens, nail polish, a charger cord for my old-school Kindle, two crows: one ceramic, one plastic.
On my TV: "Found", "Animal Control" (because Joel McHale), Hell's Kitchen, Scamanda.
Listening to: "Busyhead" by Noah Kahan. Also, the "That Chapter" podcast with Ella every week. Love me some true crime.
On the menu this week: Well, tonight we're having beef stew, tomorrow we're doing sausace and taco rice, Wednesday is chicken soup, Thursday is chicken strips, mac and cheese and veggies, Friday I'm making beef veggie soup. Saturday may be a fend for yourself day. Sunday will be one-pot spaghetti.
On my to-do list: I'm gonna make scones, run the dishwasher, and take Goose to the park.
Happening this week: Tomorrow Goose goes on a play date with her best friend and also I have to clean the fridge (bleh), Wednesday I go grocery shopping and Friday I'm doing the beginning of the garden cleanup so I can just kind of chill and exist this weekend.
What I am sewing/knitting/crocheting/creating: I'm still pretty hopeless with all of that stuff, but trying real hard to change it.
My simple pleasure: Waking up before the girls and having a quiet house where it's just me and the cats and rabbit and drinking my coffee in relative silence.
Lesson learned the past week: Appreciate it when somebody puts in the effort. I spent years being real hard on myself, which later led me to be real hard on people...especially people I love. I may not always slow down and notice the effort that's being put forth into a relationship and I really have to cut that out.
Looking around the house: It's so bright and SUNNY! I can't get over how much of a difference the sunshine makes to me. We have suncatcher window clings Ella and I impulse-bought over the winter and they are the prettiest things ever.
From the camera: I got my plants a disco ball for nearly nothing at a local thrift store. The silliest little things make me so happy.
I hereby promise to come back to this blog and put recipes and such up. I've missed this.
Hey, it's nice to "see" you back in this space! I really enjoyed catching up and reading your post. I love the show Found, think I saw that they renewed for another season. Your plants look happy behind that disco ball. Hope you have a wonderful week!
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