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I didn't have a post planned for today. And then Louise from The Fig Tree passed this blog share on to me. Honest Scrap - it was refreshing and interesting to read her 10 honest things and I thought I'd have a go too.
1) My children don't eat veggies! They eat carrots and corn and any veggie I manage to grow but our homegrown produce is paltry and, although I try, actually getting a veggie from the garden is a rare occurrence.
2) This brings me to Honest Scrap no. 2. I start off my veggie garden with great gusto, buying every veggie seedling in sight. I plant them and water them with enthusiasm. But... they take SOOOOOO long to grow. Somewhere along this journey I loose enthusiasm and waterings become more sparse, debugging becomes less often... I have a, gasp, propensity to leave the veggie in the ground for too long and they go to seed! I have lovely yellow and white lettuce flowers in my garden right now!
3)I am not neat... I try, but putting things back into their 'proper' place does not come naturally to me. My house looks like it has been ransacked by the end of the day and then I grumble terribly at the work of 'picking it up' (a lovely little American saying for tidying up).
4)Bringing me to honesty no. 4... I am lucky enough, and yes I know it with all my heart, to have a wonderful, magical, blessing of a Fairy Godmother come into my house to clean it once a week. She is my godsend and I love her and I know my life would be so much harder without her. She comes in on a Thursday and whizzes around for 5 hours and leaves my home sparkling and clean. Thursday afternoons are my favourite in my house, my week begins on a Thursday afternoon!
5)I take a long, hot bath after the kids go to sleep every night. It has been a bone of contention for my husband... he is of the belief that a bath is a luxury and should be reserved for special occasions... it wastes water, you see. One should shower every day but bathing every day is just pure indulgence. So, I indulge every night... and do love it so.
6)My last bit of honesty for today... I tend to get nursery rhymes and lullaby's stuck in my mind... singing them over and over again in my head, for days. It is most infuriating! It is one of the reasons for one of my most recent 'most embarrassing moments'... I had just dropped K at school and T was home with A Good Man... I was alone in the car. I felt free, excited for the hours ahead. It was a lovely morning and I wound the window down so that the wind could blow my hair. I felt wild... I stopped at a red light, noticing, from the corner of my eye, the business man watching me from the car next to me. That is when I realised that I was singing to myself... obviously not as softly as I thought! The song was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star... to make things worse, I was giving it a jazzy lilt in my excitement and freedom and happiness at the day. That red light sure did take a long time to turn green!
So, now I pass on the Honest Scrap Blogshare and look forward to some good reads...
I look forward to reading your Honest Scrap posts too.
Blessings and magic.
9 comments:
Oh thank you so much for the lovely award! Love that you 'indulge' in baths every night, tee hee...good for you taking care of yourself. I've had the hardest time getting my girls to eat their veggies too :( I always try to sneak them into pastas and such. But fruits, oh my...they will eat ANY of them I put in front of them which is good. And please, won't you send that 'fairy godmother' my way if she gets a second, I sure could use some of her time ;-)
Jamie :)
That was fun to read your "honest scraps". I want a fairy godmother to come and clean my house! Actually, I think I might have to seriously consider hiring someone once fall arrives and life gets busier again.
I will gladly give this honesty thing a go. ;)
Thanks for sharing your honest posts- I too would love a fairy godmother to come and wave her magic wand over my house- and garden.
And I love your twinkle twinkle story- lol
Oh wow. Thanks for posting such honesty, and passing the torch over to me! I will think overnight about my answers, and post tomorrow... hmmmm.
I *loved* reading this post! How fun! I was absolutely startled to see my name on the list... now to see if I can think of ten things.
I'm looking forward to what Joy posts on *her* list!
Wow, these are so fascinating. I'll spend a day or two ruminating on my list and let you know when it's up. :)
Hahahahaaa! You are SO funny! And so like me, especially the veggie garden part! Ask me about my (wilted) gourds!
I can't wait to do my 10! I will have to do some deep pondering today. (You made tomorrow's post more fun than it would have been!)
So much fun to read! I am seriously thinking of hiring a fairy godmother, too, just once a week. :)
My honest scrap: There are a couple of songs on the radio right now that I find insipid (Disco Stick anyone?), yet, annoyingly catchy...and I sing and dance along...
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