Just stuff

This post it a little random, you know, just the ramblings of a woman out of routine with children at home on Summer holidays and a  bloke starting a new job on shifts. Just a general fuzz of too much stuff to do and so little time to do it in. Anyway, here is what we have been randomly up to:

Crocheting and listening to my ipod at Cardingmill valley. The weather was variable in a kind of Irish weather way: windy, drizzle, baking sunshine, humid and cloudy all in two hours. I watched the girls and my God daughter play in the depleted stream. There was barely a trickle due to the early summer heat wave but they made a dam to get a pool to play in.

Going to the farm to check progress on our house build. If we don't go to the farm, the girls don't see their dad! He is working very hard both in his new job and at the farm at weekends. This has a knock on effect for me because I am single handely running a shabby household 24/7 and trying to go to work myself while the girls want to do other stuff.

It was a good day to go and find Bloke yesterday, the weather was settled and the view from the house was mighty fine. It was good to see the Stone Masons at work on the front of our house.

We have an ongoing house building job - my dad bought these tiles three years ago for 99p on ebay and there is enough from a rough estimate to tile a room in our house - we just don't know which one yet! My dad made piles of building materials he bought in this way but now that he is not here we don't know what they were all intended for. 

We need to count and dress them. The girls were little stalwarts on the wire brushes. I tapped the cement off the back with a hammer. We lasted just over an hour but then I started wondering who is going to feed these children and what can I cook them when I am eight miles from home at 4:30pm? We all ended up in an Indian restaurant.

My crafting is at a crossroads or possibly a roundabout. I keep going round and round different projects but not really getting stuck into any of them. I have two baby vests, a hat, a jumper and a blanket on the go. The Beatnik jumper is a slow burner but I have just about got the hang of the pattern but I can only do it when there is no one else in the house. One call of "Mum!" or "could you just..." and my concentration is broken.

I am making a couple of quick crochet boys tank tops because we have been invited to two christenings in September, one of which we are God parents. I like making gifts for friends and family. I will buy two little shirts to go under them.

These teeny tiny squares are made when my mind is numb and I can't follow a pattern. They are a bit like eating crisps - you just make one more, then one more...oh go on, another one....etc.

I am aware I sound out of sorts. I am. I am longing for my term time routine. There are some nice events and things on the horizon though so I am trying to focus on those. Anyway we all went to the Zoo today to get out of the house. I must say it was fun.

Jo xxxx