Home & Family

The big kids had a sleepover at Grandma and Poppy’s last night – their first one all on their own.  They did great, and of course, had a wonderful time!  We slept in until 9:45am!!  Can you believe it?  That hasn’t happened since at least 5 1/2 years ago.  I was sure I was holding my phone upside down and it had to be 6:45am when I looked at it…and then Tommy didn’t wake up until 10:30am!  He has always been a good sleeper, but not that good.  Such a lovely way to start our Easter Saturday.

After picking the children up, we took them on a mystery tour (a fun family tradition that started when I was a child) and planned to visit Mural Fest in Sheffield, only to get there and realise that it doesn’t start until tomorrow, with next Saturday being the big ending!  We still enjoyed a play at the park and had lunch in a cafe on the way home.

This week has been full of easter crafts and stories.  This book has provided loads of entertainment.  Here are Oscar’s super cute egg animals…

And inspired by this craft, we made some easter egg collages too…

As usual, Easter Bunny visited our house this afternoon.  We could hear that he was coming, so quickly went and hid in Tommy’s bedroom.  Dad said that he almost caught him, but Easter Bunny was running way too fast!  I still think that our Easter Bunny is the best ever – coming on Saturday rather than Sunday morning.  Makes getting ready for church much easier!

We made some hot cross buns – this time using the recipe from the Thermomix cookbook.  They were delicious and we had them for dinner 😉

And I’m a bit late on the traditional easter PJs this year.  Luckily they come from me and not the bunny!  They are all cut out and ready to sew, so hopefully I’ll be sharing them next week!

What ever you are doing this Easter, hope you are having a lovely time spending it with people that you love and that you take a little moment of time to remember the sacrifice that our Savior made for us.

Here’s the thing…running your own business and working from home is awesome.  When I started selling my sewing patterns, I never did intend to make a business of it, but over time things have fallen nicely into place and now I find myself “working” from home and contributing to the family bills.  With any kind of commitment, comes work though.  Unfortunately I don’t sit around and sew all day (ah, wouldn’t that be great?!).  Aside from the usual day to day jobs that come with being a wife and mother, I spend many hours on the computer answering emails, working out finances, writing up patterns, not to mention keeping the blog updated and things running over on Facebook.  There is lots to think about every single day.  I love it though.  If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t be doing it.

But sometimes I miss the old me.  The me with had a baby or two at home, got bored because there was “nothing to do”, managed to take a walk every day without feeling like it was wasting precious time,  the me who would cook for the sake of it, sit on the couch and watch a bit of midday telly and read a magazine in the afternoon.  It was pretty cruisy back then!  

So yesterday I declared it “house-wifey” day.  I didn’t do anything “work” related.  I got the kids up at the bench and we cooked cheese and bacon scrolls followed by caramel popcorn together.  There was delicious chicken noodle soup for dinner and some of Clare’s scrumptious rocky road to finish it off.  Then I went with Mum to visit a sick friend.  Came home and did a bit of housework and sat on the couch and read with the kids for awhile.  I felt like I had accomplished a lot, my mind was refreshed and it didn’t matter that there were still a gazillion emails sitting unanswered and I hadn’t worked out the tricky bit on my new pattern.

Next time I’m feeling over it, I’m scheduling another “house-wifey” day – kinda like taking a sickie from work but I feel good!

 

It’s that time of the year again!  Oscar had his first day back at school on Tuesday – full-time this year instead of the two days he was going last year.  He was so ready and has loved his first two days back already.  It does feel very strange to have him gone every day, but I have to admit that the house is very peaceful now that Lil has full reign over everything and can persuade Tommy to do what ever she wants!

Hopefully back to school will also mean back to routine and back to work – I’ll confess that I haven’t sewn a thing (like even touched my machine!) since Christmas time!  Yikes!  I’m itching to get back into it now though and just got my sewing machine and overlocker back from a service so fingers crossed I can find that mojo and get to work!