Mothernature didn’t co-operate with us today, it was very windy and cold. If the weather was better, I think I would have liked to have gone on a bushwalk. In the end, the children were in a melllow mood, and were getting into their own projects. I also got into a big project myself, and I was so busy, that I didn’t get around to taking any photos today…I also faced my biggest challenge which had me thinking about breaking the spending detox!
How we spent day 5:
- Older girls did portrait sketches
- DS4 used his mobilo to make transformers (he rented a transformer DVD last night. It was so cute how he would transform his mobilo and make that “chh chh chuu chhhuu” transformer sound)
- DD2 played with dolls (isn’t it weird how the children take on a higher voice when they are doing the voice for the dolls…makes me smile every time!)
- I moved the car out of the garage so the kids could ride their bikes inside
- I started decluttering the garage and ended up staying there most of the day
- DS4 found our picnic basket and decided to make us an indoor picnic with bread and fruit
- All of the kids enjoyed the new space I made for them to do their drawings and crafts
- The charity shop came to pick up 2 tables, a cot mattress, and a few other bits and pieces. BIGGEST TEMPTATION: I really wanted to take a load of rubbish to the tip/dump. I was really torn: finish my goal for the week or finish decluttering the garage and pay to go to the dump. ugh!
- Hubby was late from work, so the kids started watching out for him out the window. All of a sudden I heard “DADDY!” then another wouldn’t know what to do with themselves so yelled out “HIDE HIDE!!” TEMPTATION: Felt like having a lazy Friday and pick up hubby from work and get take aways
- Had a “breakfast dinner” at home (just to change things up, we sometimes have scrabbled eggs and/or bacon, and or mini sausages and/or pancakes for dinner as a fun treat)
- After we played with the kids in the evening, we ate the traffic light jelly that we made in a bowl a few days ago
- Got a DVD for DD2 that we will probably watch tomorrow
- For a date, hubby and I watched a movie on tv together
MONEY SPENT TODAY $0.00
THINGS I HAVE LEARNED TODAY:
- Sometimes you just have to let go of your things. I had to make some tough choices today about some of the furniture we have (did I mention I’m a bit of a hoarder!). Asking these questions, helped me to let them go: Does the item fit, or have a home? Do you use it now? Is it even worth keeping?!
- I had trained myself to look past the mess of the house all these years. In reality, I was never really looking past the mess, if anything the mess was like a “to-do list” staring back at me, and that can make anyone feel down. As we de-clutter the house, and all pitch in to keep it tidy, I actually feel lighter!
- Whenever I finish de-cluttering a section of the house, I ALWAYS say to myself afterwards “you should have taken a “before shot”. Then I do the same mistake the next time, and the next time! Will I ever learn?!
- I love watching my kids play together! I also love it when they give each other sympathy when they get hurt.
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