{wondering} who I’m writing this for. Hello future me, reading back through the archives to remember those little details that might otherwise escape. Hello kids, checking in to see what I think is important from our week.
{reading} Island and Squarehead. Both reviewed yesterday so I won’t ramble on further here.
{enjoying} challenging myself with photography and art. Discovered Pilot drawing pens this week, and getting a bit more proficient with the Winsor and Newton watercolour pens I treated myself too. Can’t find the waterbrushes I bought though which is a bit annoying.
{dreaming} of joy and a decluttered house. I haven’t even read the Marie Kondo book so many people seem to be talking about, but I’m wandering through the house, picking things up and heading them for discard piles when I realise they don’t bring me joy. Tomorrow I’m going to do my best to work through my bedroom sorting out my clothes, and hopefully some of the extraneous stuff that has accumulated in there. If I can get to be able to use the drawers and wardrobes I will count it a very successful day.
{planning} some creative challenges for the circle. I’ve decided that what I’m going to do is run for a month and see what kind of interest and community we’ve got going there before working out whether I run it again, or just let people join whenever they feel like it. Difficulty is that I really want to encourage and build community, and I don’t think a standard linky structure will do that in the way I’m looking for. (I keep remembering Ella’s friday club, which was wonderful, and worked because everyone linked to everyone. But it was loads of work for Ella, and I don’t want to make my life difficult.)
{exploring} the local area – have lived here 6 years and didn’t actually know what’s at the end of the road. (Yes, there’s an end.) Now I do.
Snapshots
After well over a year, Big has given up her paper round – the early mornings are just taking too much out of her wrapped around the school day. Small had his second fencing session, he’s really enjoying it. Smallest wrote a book, and Tigerboy has suddenly started drawing people with expressions and everything.
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