{struggling} to get back into the blogging habit. I did so well in December, but then took a Christmas break…
{also struggling} with pain, exhaustion, depression? I don’t know. Hard to disentangle emotional states and their permanence or otherwise from a physical position of daily hurtingness and chronic tired. I went for a stroll around the shops yesterday afternoon, I was out less than two hours. By dinner time I could barely stay upright, and I didn’t want to get up this morning at all. The good news is that between my december and january appts the physio had a rethink and decided that there may be more to it all than appears and is referring for blood tests. Yay to the physio (and hold my hand on Tuesday when I have to go and have them stick a needle in my arm?)
{enjoying} a daily art habit. Today I even managed to do it in the afternoon during swim club instead of waiting until bedtime! Hugely recommend Sktchy if you’re apple-d up as it were (sadly not yet available on android). Great if you’re looking to work on drawing people, which I am intrigued by. Think I may have started to get the hang on pencil shading for hair and bones, and why didn’t I know what the scrubby paper thing was for before? (Does it even have a name?)
{trying} to get back into a daily book habit. I thought I’d made it with a couple of mesmeric reads, but lack of energy has led to lack of concentration which has led to lack of reading. Again. Hohum.
{wanting} to rework the blog. Definitely. I can almost see it, with a different theme for each category, and the ability to subscribe by categories, and a very much smaller list of categories and and and… yes, there’s a reason or three this hasn’t happened yet. Not least because I haven’t finished designing my new overall header. (Because I’m thinking there is still a home page for the heap. Still toying with how I do the rest of it. The six of you who read this, what categories are you interested in? I have some ideas but always interested in feedback.
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Big just got older, but we’re celebrating tomorrow night. Small is toying with nocturnal, I’m not sure it suits him though. Smallest read a book tonight, a whole book, without a single sigh or I can’t do it, or anything. Yay Miles Kelly and your fairytale phonics! Tigerboy voluntarily did a non screen activity today – we did some Oliver Jeffers inspired art. Going to blog that separately though.
(Disclosure: I can’t actually remember if the lovely Miles Kelly people sent this particular book along, I’m fairly sure we have had some from them in the past. They appear to have a sale on. Links to amazon are affiliate links.)