Sunday - a new week - a new day October 26, 2025

[blessedw2]

((d cathy)) hard day for you!
Is this it? just press on the blue tartan
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Vermont company also carries a blue tartan pjs for women

[Twins' Mom]

I had a pleasant day upstairs but I am trying to get my bottom moving now. I'm starting a tomato soup (from store canned tomatoes) for our supper. Dh also has some ribs and I also have grilled chicken.

I started a load of whites with bleach. Dh folded a load earlier and I need to put mine away. So much OMM now that I'm allowing myself to face the week, lol. Maybe not lol, but I'm trying to deal with it.

Tomorrow:
Roomba, first floor and screened porch (sweet around edges of porch before running it)
Straighten up guest bedroom and bathroom (comforter onto bed, put away anything else)
My workroom upstairs - bring down trash and recycling
Straighten up garage
Try to get spot off carpet upstairs?

[blessedw2]

tomato soup sounds lovely d twins
im glad u enjoyed yourself upstairs

good night all - I looked at the sink and someone or multiple someones filled it again

very sweet - my neighbor came back from Italy and brought me olive oil

[lucylee]

I thought the Broncos were playing today but I missed their game somehow -- or maybe I missed when they were supposed to be playing. I like their QB because he's an Auburn man, even if he did finish his career at Oregon (I think!)

I'm thinking about your opening, blessed... how to KNOW when we over-schedule or over-goal ourselves...
I definitely need to stay off electronics -- including the television! -- in the morning. And obviously the phone takes away from my day.
I don't think I think I need to keep the world spinning, LOL. I do worry about my dmom and DS/family... but I don't really feel "responsible" for them -- do I? Maybe I do, even though I can't really DO anything about them.

"The evening can be a time of severe self judgement."
"What we think we can do in the morning seems overwhelming at night. We never could have done it at all" We could work all night, but still all the things you think you should do can't be done in a 24 hour day or a week.
"framing the evening win love rather than your own expectations. "Take your hands off the world and rest"
"the evening brings me the reality of my limited life. There is so much we wanted to do or should have done: that's about self.

About self? Hmmm...

praying a minute or what ever in morning , afternoon, evening. to reframe our day in love. always remember that it is not about us. it's about putting love in our day. being grateful

Definitely believe gratitude is an important thing, and I try to keep a gratitude journal in my planner. I often miss days -- partly because I'm going to bed so late that I don't take time to check my planner. I think the SHE sisters suggested doing this in the morning, when you had a chance to gain some perspective on the previous day. That might be wise for me.

BUT so far as over-goaling... there are few things that I honestly HAVE TO do.
-- I want to have a WHB routine because I know if I skip it too often, something will happen and I'll be in the midst of panic cleaning.
-- I want to have a laundry routine because I know if I let it pile up, it will be a huge, overwhelming mess.
-- I want to exercise regularly (at least 4x weekly)
-- I want to make time for Bible study daily
Otherwise... my responsibilities are very few:
On a monthly basis,
-- I try to attend my teacher group meeting and as secretary, I need to type up the minutes for this meeting and email members, as well as sending email and text reminders.
Weekly,
-- I have church on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights (but I will not be teaching at least until after New Year's)
-- and I have the chair yoga class on Wednesday mornings.
-- dgrands do expect to spend Friday and Saturday night with me, and -- on an irregular schedule --
-- DS/ddil expect me to be available for school pick-up, etc, when they can't do it. (For example, they are doing music at the nursing home tomorrow, and they asked me if I could pick up dgd after school.)
-- Dmom likes for me to take her to her doctor visits when they are in Next Town, and I do feel I am needed for this sort of thing. I worry about dmom's driving but I am NOT ready to take her keys away.
-- I want to attend all dgrands' activities, but after Friday night, this will be greatly reduced. Neither of them will be playing sports until DGD starts softball next spring. (That is her plan at the moment anyway; she says she does not want to play basketball this year. DGS says he is not playing anything except football from now on.)
-- I try to help out with church activities such as last night -- giving out water bottles at the city-wide "Scare on the Square" -- a trunk-or-treat thing we have every year.

I guess that looks like a lot, but it still leaves me a LOT of time to account for, LOL. People are always asking me, "What do you do during the day?" because they think without dh, I'm just sitting here twiddling my thumbs, I guess.

I have other goals too -- random things that are not on any timeline --
-- set up the NokBox
-- organize photos and scrapbook misc
-- get back into a routine of zone cleaning and decluttering
-- keep up with household repairs and maintenance

So...I don't know how much I can realistically do in a day. I think I will "observe" myself this week, and see how this goes. Concentrating on no electronics in the morning. That seemed to make a difference in the day last week.

This week is filling up quickly:
Monday -- pick up dgd
Tuesday -- take dmom to the doctor -- will have to leave here around 8:30/8:45. Ugh.
Wednesday -- chair yoga (10:00 a.m.) and Trunk or Treat, supper, and music at nearby church (5:00 pm)
Friday -- final game of football season, DGD spend the night
Saturday -- DGS spend the night

OTOH -- I must tell y'all, there is not much better than waking up to a 9 year old DGD saying, "Hi. Nana, you are so pretty. You don't have to put on your makeup; you are so pretty without it."
Y'all, I am NOT... but it is amazing to me that she tells me this. This is one for the gratitude journal.

[Harriet]

Mystery, it's meaningful to find a place away from usual daily life when you would like to find a peaceful retreat. I'm glad you made that little trip.

Cathy, you and your brother being able to touch base today was a very positive moment, I'm sure.

I've experimented quite a bit with what my sewing machine can and can't do today. It has features I haven't used much, or at all, and some are good to know about. Others are not working correctly, and it may be because the machine is old, could be operator error, or could be that I expect too much because I'm going by some photos online of what others have been able to do (it's possible they have much more expensive or newer machines). Anyway, learned things that help me.

HRH and I had a conversation about obsessing over our hobbies, I guess you would say. Both of us have a tendency to go on tangents when we are interested in something, plunge time into ideas. It's certainly happening to us right now - we're checking on each other but have our noses in projects. He said he's sure he's given time to things that have kept him from earning as much money or being as successful by some measures. But he says also that having hobbies and projects going has kept him from potentially using his time in ways that wouldn't have made him very proud to do.

For the week, adding that recycling is important and won't be easy - supposed to be raining heavily when we'll need to be getting all that out.

[Nancy]

low bs before dinner it got dark not quite sure of the time.
did up the dishes and put em away so they are not on the counter.
s2s
watched my shows I enjoy
got my steps in.
Was cold and glad I finally got warmed up.
Tuening in soon.
Too tired to think of my Mon. - Fri. tasks to write out D.'s first I suppose.
Sleep well everyone,