Things around here have been pretty good lately.
Mr P & I seem to be back on track. The girls are really stepping up & helping around the house. Life has been really good. Mr P has been home a lot. He has even had a few weeks where he has done a lot of local work. Last week he was gone for 7 days. That shook me a little after having him home for so long. Now, he has gone again & this time will be the longest in months. There is no return date, it will be weeks maybe even longer, until I see him again. I know that I have to get over it, I have to daughters to look after.
{that is not Kiara’s normal photo pose, she was having a moment of madness!}
but some days just suck.
In my email inbox this morning, I read this,
May 9, 2012
"We don't have a lot of control in life, but we really do have control over the objects in our homes. So when the world is spinning too fast and you feel completely crazed, just get the things around you settled."
— Peri Wolfman
That is what I have been doing without even realising. I have been cleaning like a mad woman, sewing from my incredibly large fabric stash, making a million & 1 things from the overflowing craft cupboard & cooking so I can use up my stock pile of cooking ingredients. I have been so busy that I am not sleeping. At 11pm last night, I was rearranging the pots & pans cupboard. I get these serious bouts of insomnia where I just can’t sleep so I clean, I organise & I make.
Then there are the low moments, when the house is quiet & I have time to think. That is the time when I start to think of what I am missing out on with Mr P away so much. Then it starts again. I have to clean & make so that I don’t have time to dwell on things.
What do you do when your world is spinning out of control & you need to bring yourself back down to earth?
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