What OS jobs can i fit into 2 hours?

Beki

My 3 year old little boy starts nursery on 23rd of this month! He'll be going every afternoon (mon-fri) 12.30pm to 3pm. I'm only 5 mins away from the school/nursery (ds is going to the nursery which is attached to dd's school - handy! ) so will get back hom about 12.40, and will have to leave to pick dd & ds up at about 2.45 (dd finishes 10 mins before ds, so have to be at the school for 2.50 for her).

Soooo.... my question is what do i do with 2 WHOLE hours of free time?!

I'm so used to ds being around, and having to fit everything round him... i don't know what i'm going to do with myself :rotfl: I'm actually really excited about having a bit of 'me time'... but don't want to just sit and veg in front of the tv for two hours.. would love to use my time constructively!

I'm a keen (if very amateur) veg gardener, so i'm sure i'll be spending quite a bit of time out in the veg patch and greenhouse. But i'm hoping you'll be able to give me some other ideas as to what i can fit into a couple of hours?

Pleeeeeeeeeease try and refrain from any cleaning ideas (could bring me out in a rash just thinking about it, and i wouldn't want to hold anyone responsible for that :rotfl: ) xxxx

dealwithdebtdot

Ooh, how utterly lovely!

~Foot treatment and pedicure.-cheap washing up bowl with warm water and a treatment of your choice....could just be some oats in a bag that you squeeze the milkness from with some essential oil. soak for a bit then exfoliate with sea and olive oil and then a pumice stone if you have one. cut your toenails when they are nice and soft. Dry feel then they are wrinkly. get some mosturiser on them and then wrap in clingfilm, leave for half an hour. then file and polish your nails.
(I love lush foot stuff, but can't justify the cost at the moment.)

~Pluck your eyebrows and give yourself a facial.


~Design and then...Start a patchwork quilt with fabric from charity shop clothes.

~Meditate?

~preserving

purpleivy

dealwithdebtdot wrote: »

Ooh, how utterly lovely!

~Foot treatment and pedicure.-cheap washing up bowl with warm water and a treatment of your choice....could just be some oats in a bag that you squeeze the milkness from with some essential oil. soak for a bit then exfoliate with sea and olive oil and then a pumice stone if you have one. cut your toenails when they are nice and soft. Dry feel then they are wrinkly. get some mosturiser on them and then wrap in clingfilm, leave for half an hour. then file and polish your nails.
(I love lush foot stuff, but can't justify the cost at the moment.)

~

You need to let your nails dry before applying polish and then remove moisturiser on the nails with a little polish remover, so that the polish will stay put on your toenails. Also, if you apply coloured polish to your nails, then a topcoat prevents 'wear' of the colour on the tips, especially where they rub on your shoes. Not a prob when we're in sandals, eh?


It's actually 10 hours of free time per week. I think there's a lot to be said for doing whatever makes you happy, whether OS/MS or not. Invite a friend over for a piece of HM something and a good goss, that's nice and relaxing. She might invite you back, or invite 2 people and you might get 2 invitations back. It's actually about the right time for lunch!

You could go to Borders if you have one, 2 hours of browsing other people's books for the price of a coffee!

annie123

Soooo.... my question is what do i do with 2 WHOLE hours of free time?!


absolutely nothing:D sit down have a cuppa and enjoy it while you can:j

beautiful_ravens

Hurrah Beki!
My smallest has been going to nursery since october, she goes 2 and a half days (5 sessions, but I get 2 DAYS - 2 whole DAYS!!)
Anyway, what I have done has ranged from playing guitar all day, to gutting a chock-a-block cupboard; rearranging the kitchen cupboards or going for a long walk with the dog; Ive spent days just ebaying, and one week I just read a book -in an uniterrupted way- by the fire; Ive rummaged through my shed, spent one day sorting out paperwork/kids drawings etc, one day I was in the bath for ages, just lying there doing nothing...It usually depends on what sort of energy I wake up with in the first place When the weather's warmer I will be outside in the gardens most of the time I expect. Cant wait for that!
Basically I do anything thats difficult to do with the kids around, and save those jobs for when theyre all at school. Unless I change my mind of course!
x

tamsin1982

I currently get 4 hours on a tuesday kid free, I quite enjoy coming home and sitting in total silence.. such bliss lol
generally I do things that are much easier to get done without ds in tow, spent most of this afternoon queing in the post office!
He'l be starting school in september so I will have 3 days to do as I please (I work 2), so have decided to go for a degree

Beki

Ooooh some fab ideas there! Thanks everyone

Hope no-one thinks i'm terrible for being excited lol.. It's just that it'll be the first time for YEARS that i'll have had any sort of regular me-time... i'm sure i'll miss him terribly the first few times.. but i'm sure i'll get used to it lol

pretty_mumma

It does get easier, and you'll wonder where the time goes. I have 2 little ones. One is at nursery for a full day each week, and the other is only 10 months so she stays with me.
I use that day to do the food shopping, any other shopping i need to do, any hospital appointments i arrange for that day and any cleaning or gardening that i cant do with him around.

And it feels like 8-5 took 5 mins!!