Re: Happy Mothers Day Sunday @TDD
Posted: Sun May 10, 2026 8:34 am
L.Ann, the other day I read that once you hit a certain age life is just a delicate balance of trying to stay awake and trying to fall asleep, while slowly getting worse at both, and I thought that was just on spot! 
helia, I've stopped refilling the bird feeders - there's enough growing and insects for the birds to find their own lunches!
All that I managed before lunch was to clean one piece of garden furniture for oiling, but you gotta start somewhere!
TaDas
- start lunch
- time outside while lunch is cooking
- midday routine
- browsing through online clothing stores getting stuff both for kids (DS+DBD, I'd never dare to get anything for twins these days) and for myself
ToDos
- 1 hour outside
- afternoon routine
- defrost garage freezer
Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for May
- order of clothes
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
helia, I've stopped refilling the bird feeders - there's enough growing and insects for the birds to find their own lunches!
All that I managed before lunch was to clean one piece of garden furniture for oiling, but you gotta start somewhere!
TaDas
- start lunch
- time outside while lunch is cooking
- midday routine
- browsing through online clothing stores getting stuff both for kids (DS+DBD, I'd never dare to get anything for twins these days) and for myself
ToDos
- 1 hour outside
- afternoon routine
- defrost garage freezer
Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for May
- order of clothes
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
. As far as we can tell, the known nest is still incubating 5. I kept the grandchildren away from it yesterday, although they really only wanted to observe. Perhaps I would be better off to know - if mother wren has lost her nest to something unforseen, I might as well plant there now.