Blog backlog, bag backlog, life backlog

I’m fed up of writing self indulgent whiny posts. I’m fed up of feeling self indulgent and whiny. But yesterday I burst into tears three times over missing the Kiddicare blogger brainstorm due to a nasty stomach bug and so I think maybe I’m a little under the weather. Plus the grey skies and lack of sunlight always gets to me, so perhaps I need to be doing something kind for myself to try to balance everything out.

Kind to myself would be finishing off everything that needs done around here and having a semi decent house to live in. Back to 202020 really – I am decluttering, but it’s so much slower than I want it to be. Each day I’ve taken at least a carrier bag of stuff out of the house – charity shops, hand me downs, recycling, whatever – but it doesn’t seem to be making much of a difference yet. And not that much has come in, though a few bits have, so if I keep going sooner or later I have to see a difference, right?

I was asked where it all comes from. Good question. Clothes – we get a lot of hand me downs for Smallest, and I’m a terrible hoarder, so even though I’ve handed stuff down, we’ve probably still got enough for a litter of babies instead of the one I’m having. Need to be more ruthless. Then there’s the review stuff – if I look around the room here I can see heaps of things that I’ve been given, either just as freebies or for review. I’m getting ruthless with that too – turning things down (I don’t have the time to write about it all anyway as I don’t want to fill the blog with review posts!) and giving away excess freebies – filled a box with baby stuff for a local friend who is due a couple of weeks before me. I find it so hard to turn away free things though, given I’m not earning, I can’t always see how I’m going to manage to get the things I’d like. Another bit of my own headspace I need to re-organise I think.

Things that can stay, or keep coming – educational, low impact, small(!) games or resources. So Bananagrams finds a slot and here’s my latest picture for the BananagramsBloggerBattle. Not sure whether I’ve actually missed the entry deadline (please don’t tell the kids if we have!) but I fell asleep with Smallest last night so I didn’t get to post last night.

Aargh, this is a horribly waffly post. Sorry about that. Here’s the pic, now I’m off to bag up more stuff for removal…

Can you guess what the theme was? Pop over to the Bananagrams FB page if you want to learn more. You can get your own copy of the game at Play.