Monday, February 7, 2011

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

Sunday, January 30, 2011

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



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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.