My Favorite Day Of The Week

I have a favorite day of the week and its Mondays! Yes its Monday the first day to the week. I absolutely love Mondays. I have a great job and I work four days a week and yes you guessed it not on Mondays. I have a wonderful family but guess what they are not around on Mondays. Hubby is at work and B is at school. Mondays are my special day reserved just for me. It sounds selfish I know but I do love my time at home to myself. Nothing like a quite house and a cup a tea.

A typical Monday for me is filled with no specific plans or commitments just an open slate for me to fill with what I want when want. The alarm is not set and I wake up as the family is leaving, fix my self a cup a tea and head back to bed with my latest book. I usually do a few things around the house like today was ironing, changing the sheets on our bed, cleaning a bit, time working on cards, more reading, and plenty of cups of tea. I even fit in a nap and a walk today.

What is your favorite day of the week and why? I would love to know.

Mrs. Potts

Seasons In Life

I have been thinking about the seasons in life that we go through. I believe there are many and they are constantly changing just like the four seasons we experience each year. I do believe a season of life can be long or short and I also believe we can get stuck in a season or long for a past season that is full of fun and memories.

I find myself in a new season of life now. My oldest has left the nest and is attending college eight hours away in another state. To say she loves it is putting it mildly. She is growing and thriving and enjoying this season of her life. My son is loving his independence (he bought his sisters car before she left for college) and new found status as "only child". He will be leaving in just a couple of years as well.

For so much of my life I have given to others. Now don't misinterpret that. I have loved ever minute of giving time to my children, their school activities, projects, interests and what not. Insuring they had a strong foundation, love, support and safety net. But they no longer need me in ways they have in the past. What they need from me is changing. I am finding these changes freeing in a way I never have before.

I am reinventing rediscovering myself with the extra time I now have. I am discovering new interests, enjoying more time with my guy and in some ways being selfish with my time. I find myself often doing exactly what I want to do when I want to do it. I also find that I am spending more and more time with myself. I used to be such a social person. It seems someone was always over for tea, stamping scraping or dinner. These days I am enjoying the quite of my home and solitude. I thing this is a season a time to rediscover my interests and who I am or rather who I want to be. A friend once told me she likes to reinvent herself every seven years or so. Interesting thought. Maybe right now I am trying to reinvent myself in this new season of my life.

Off to have a cuppa and ponder it some more.

Mrs. Potts

Away Way To Long

I have been thinking a great deal about the blogging world of late. Why do people blog? What do they hope to get out of it? What is in it for them? Why are some so open with their lives and share it all? Why am I curious enough to visit certain blogs on a regular basis? Why do I seem to care or have an interest in there world and or posts? These questions and many others are fascinating to me. I started this blog thinking it would be fun. Then it became more of a chore. I needed to post interesting, fun and witty comments and well that just seemed like to much work. I felt people would not be interested in my life. But maybe it is deeper than that. Did I not want to be honest and expose myself to people I don't know. What if people I know, see or work with every day read my blog. I feel I need to hide who I am or what I truly want to say. Why is that. What am I so afraid of? Will people judge me? Maybe not like me? Read into my blog something that is not there?

Just thinking out loud. This seems to be a year of change for me. Figuring out who I am and who I really want to be. No more pleasing others its more about being true to myself.

Going Once Going Twice Gone

Well I had mention to write this blog Sunday, and then Monday and so on and now its Wednesday.

I am sure that the memory has faded and the humor is lost at this point but I will post about my experience anyway.

Saturday night H.P. and I attended a Chili Feed and Auction. It was a charity event for local school children held at our church. I was encouraged to after seeing the display of quilts up for action. One of them in particular caught my eye. Yep you guessed it was a quilt with tea cups and coffee cups all over it in blocks stripped together. Not something I had in my tea collection and it was calling my name. Tickets were purchased and we waited a week in anticipation of the big night.

Saturday night came and we approached the evening with excitement. I had every intention of walking home with that quilt. Oh yes I did it was mine for the taking. The other quilts were nice and they had some lovely cabins, meals and desserts also available for action.

We made it through the chili line and found our spots at a table placed in the middle of the room. We did not want to be at the front or back just in the middle. The counted down till auction time and then the fun and games began. We spotted a cabin up for bid that was just to good to pass up, so we started bidding. It got down to us and one other bidder. We were discussing our next bid when out of nowhere a new bidder entered bidding, placed a bid and before we or the other party knew what happened we heard sold! Ok well I could still get my quilt. It came up for bid and I played cautious not wanting to draw attention to myself and wanting to jump in at the last minute. The bidding went up, I jumped in and countered back and forth we went and then it hit about $125.00 and I looked at the quilt and thought I am not crazy about the colors, it has coffee cups and references on it. What was I thinking I don't want to pay this much or more for this quilt. I quickly placed my number down and was out. My dear H.P. was in shock, what was I doing I wanted that quilt it was mine - nope I am a woman and I can change my mind and I did.

We bid other several other lovely quilts that night and two other cabins and a getaway but we left with nothing. We were oh so close on a quilt but the auctioneer made a mistake sold it to another couple. Not sure how that happened but oh well. We attended the evening hope to contribute to a good cause come home with a lovely quilt and the joy of an auction. We left with no quilt, no money spent and not sure how we lost one particular item at the auction.

Oh well there is always next year!

Mrs. Potts

Milestones

It seems we mark life by milestones. Various things that mark the passage of time in our lives and our families lives. Some milestones are simple and yet others save us money. Some milestones in my life have included: no more diapers to buy - this was a huge one in so many many ways. Another was the completion for preschool for both kids and no more preschool expenses, however this was followed by another milestone the start of kindergarten followed by all day school the next year. Completion of elementary school and middle school have also been milestones. Another milestone was the start of drivers ed for joyful and then the permit followed by the license and then driving alone. Psymon is half way through this milestone event now that he has his learners permit. Yesterday was another milestone event it was the last trip to the orthodontist for Psymon. It was has last retainer check. No more visits, no more checks or rubber bands to find laying around. After six years visiting the orthodontist with both kids I feel joy and sorrow. Joy that we have no more visits and no more checks to right but really after six years these people are my friends. I'm going to miss them - ok not that much. But it just made me think another milestone has come and gone. Yes there are many more to look forward to like high school and college graduations, first jobs, living on their own and getting married.

Wow theres still a lot to come. I think I need a cup of tea and time to ponder this some more. The previous milestones look easy the ones ahead look challenging and expensive. If you have any milestones you would like to share please do. Leave me a comment.

Mrs. Potts

The Soup Bowl

A weekend or so ago my darling H.P. and I decided to take a mini vacation and hide away for the weekend. We left the teens with nana for supervision. We stayed at a lovely hotel and I went in search of my morning cup of tea. The hotel for all is nicety offered styrofoam cups for its morning coffee and tea drinking. Now any good tea snob knows styrofoam cups do not work for tea. Oh the taste the taste it just can not be done! So off we went to find a coffee shop that would provide me with a steaming cup of hot water. Because being the tea snob I am I carry my own tea bags with me. Well we find a common popular place know around the country (star) and headed in thinking success. You see on past vacations they have been wonderful, I have gone in and asked for a large cup of hot water and they have provided it at no charge. Its not styrofoam but a recycled paper product and although its not china it works so well in a pinch. But not this stars no she looks at me funny. You want a cup of hot water? Why yes I do. Do you want a tea bag with that - H.P. is quick to say no she has her own. That gets me a very strange look like I am a real snob which I am. Then she asks am I staying or going with my hot water. Well what does it matter but I say I am staying and order a muffin to go with it. I receive my hot water not in a paper cup or a mug but a soup bowl. You know those large things they try to pass off as cups with a handle on the side but they really are soup bowls. It is not china so it does not keep the water hot and it does not require one tea bag but at least three I think. It cools so quickly and it does not fit comfortably in my hands as my cups do at home. I am so disappointed. This is not the way to start off my day. I drink what I can from this soup bowl and surrender to the fact that I will not be enjoying a nice cup of steaming hot tea this morning. I mean tea in a soup bowl who does that.

Its been to long

My mind has been swimming with all kinds of blog witting thoughts. Oh I could write about that or I could share this experience or up date on that one. I don't have to blog every day to be a blogger. So many random thoughts I don't know where to start. Then I come to my blog and realize just how long it has been since I have blogged. Its just a little embarrassing. I won't even try and catch you up.

Let me just say it can be summed up very simply in a few short sentences. Teenagers and their schedules keep me busy. Summer was fun but busy with summer camps and drivers ed for the youngest teen. Throw work in the mix and you have a full and busy spring through summer going right into fall. I can't tell you how many cups of tea I have had but I can tell you there have been plenty. I have several tea snob stories to share from my weekend up in Sun Valley. I will try and post those this week.

Mrs. Potts