NST April 2020: Fools we are not!

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for online resources, for good coffee, for some rain to help the garden, for making a wool rainbow picture to put up in the window, for dh going out and doing the shopping.

PurpleFairy26

You seem to achieve so much mothernerd well done. Today’s gratefuls:

wool available to cast on a new project
lovely extras arriving with my yummy veg box
a blanket to snuggle under so I don’t have to put the heating on 

greent

Today I am thankful for time spent watching birds in the garden - a robin moving around and getting worms from the lawn, finches eating seed heads and some tits flitting about , it looking like we're getting a refund for some concert tickets (eventually....), rain for the garden (although not the amount promised)

Not much happening here today

f0xh0les

Well I have not achieved much myself today -made meringues with aquafaba ( tinned chickpea water) and they were fantastic.  No effort whatsoever, will make again.  Who knew?

Mothernerd - I planted out some pea seeds this week, it took 3 whole days for them to be 1cm tall.  You will be knee deep in pea shoots in no time.

I have been sat next to one child or another all day long making them do homework.  I have 48 hours to get them all up to speed before the next round of homework hits the internet.  They can use my laptop, or the desktop in the back room - we changed the wifi password and the eldest have run out of mobile data, so they have no access without supervision,  and I am wandering the house, doing the rounds  like Bertha the prison guard, but it seems to be having results.  It really annoys me I have to stand over them like this, but we have tried being nice, offering rewards, and it got us nowhere and they just lied that they had done the work.  So full on authoritarianism it is then.   Same again tomorrow, and Sunday, but at least we can start the next round of fun and games on square 1, rather than  square -5.   I just hope I don't get any phone calls from concerned teachers, it is embarrassing. 

Anyway, Mum School starts again at 8am prompt.  The weekend has been cancelled. Not that there were many plans.

Menus planned for the next few days, not going out, not spending money, NSD 12 in the bag. 

Gratitudes - having 72 hours to fix the homework situation, getting an annoying piece of furniture shifted, lovely dh made ravioli from scratch and it was lush, and there is still lots of pasta dough left for tomorrow. Taking in the washing, and then seeing the rain hit the window 20 minutes later.

Oh, and we have had great success with buying flour in the local  little Chinese, Korean, and Polish shops. 

facethemusic

Friday-still on NSD 11, as needed milk, so for some rolls while at the shop, then as I'd already spent money I ordered a new phone screen protector as mine is totally smashed after being dropped last week. 
Gratitudes- video calls with family, lots of seeds have started growing, a walk with no rain, DD sitting down with  a craft project, enjoying  a glass of wine from a relatively local maker. 

misstara

Yesterday was NSD 15/20.  Today might be 16 depending on whether we decide to buy seeds or not.  Grateful for a lovely walk yesterday, roast chicken dinner, getting washing dried outside, chatting to my neighbour and spending quality time with OH.

mothernerd

No idea where I am on NSDs. Today will be spendy as I've started already - placed an order with the zero waste shop which opened last year. They have put up a website for home deliveries in the last week and as I want to support them and for them to stay open, I'm going to place a monthly order from now on. Included local honey as I still have the sore throat from pollen grains lodged there and the sudden onset depression I always forget about (if I sit or kneel on grass I come out in red weals as though I had been whipped). Isn't summer fun?

Mum has decided that she doesn't like the idea of a freezer in the bedroom (the one I'm in) and I should cancel it. Well I'm not. We're only on a waiting list, by the time we get to the top of it, she might have realised the reality of the changing situation, if not I'll sneak it in somehow. Stealth gardening is making me feel like I am still married (ex's father was the gardener and ex and his mother formed a mutual appreciation society so were anti garden). One year I grew as many seeds as i could under cover of a large table in the bathroom (old windows so came down nearly to the floor). Nearly all the plants and seeds are in the polytunnel atm but need to start setting up next level stuff to put them in.

She also keeps telling people 'we have loads of food', sometimes asking me as an afterthought (big oranges, bananas, wraps, I'm not the one that's eating all this stuff) then 5 minutes after the call she tells me that she doesn't need more choc with nuts in (my suggestion) she'd like some chewy or suckable mints  - why tell me, I can't go in shops?

No more moaning for now. Mum has had a cold for the past few days but won't stay in bed - I offered her my little lap table to eat her breakfast and take her pills in bed and she could watch all the birds on the feeding table (my suggestion to put the bed the way it is, so she has a direct view of them). No she 'must get up', so I've got it now and I need all my energy. If you are ill, the best thing you can do is stay in bed, sleep if possible and give your body the best chance to repair itself. I don't want her to take to her bed permanently but looking after ourselves is the best way to avoid putting strain on the health service.

I'm fine, I had a wave of homesickness yesterday and there are so many things I wished I had had time to bring (my sunhat, my own sheets: all the buckets, old bins, plastic bottles, slats for the raised beds and compost and soil for growing things: both my trolleys (the ikea craft ones). Need lists and ways of getting things.

Today I am grateful for a temperate day (rain might damp down the hayfever problems to manageable levels), having enough food, being in reasonable health, knowing how to look after my physical and mental health (must carve out time to implement it), for seeing solutions to things (potential solutions at least), for all the knowledge and experience I've gained over the years (even if I've forgotten a lot of it), for feeling safe in the bungalow, for yoghurt (going to be reckless and eat it without stuffing it full of oats), for throat sweets, for no-one in my circle having died yet (although the news may not have filtered through yet and 2 of mum's fellow church members are ill - pre-existing conditions).

ditty1234

Still need to catch up on reading. Proud I managed to support ds in running his first 10 M, with me happily bobbing along on my bicycle. Nice way to spend a bit of time together, He had done the opposite for me every once in a while as well. 
Grateful for rain and for my sourdough starter that's still  improving. Have a lovely day. 

Toni'sfriend

Another NSD. 

It is Saturday, isn't it?  I don't know what day it is most of the time. They are all merging into one and every day is becoming the same. Did a few things today but not a lot.

Really pleased that our repeat prescriptions arrived by post this morning. Actually, it was quicker than normal. We don't need the medication right away but it's comforting to know that we have plenty of time to get the prescription filled. I'll ask the Boy to take it to the chemist and collect it when it suits him. No hurry.

Mothernerd - I really don't know how you fit so much into your day and you do so much for your Mother. I hope she appreciates what a treasure you are.

So I'm off to roast some potatoes with garlic to have with roast beef and brussel sprouts from the freezer. I felt by now it would be completely empty. Bot no, still lots in there.

Have a good weekend and stay safe and well.

PurpleFairy26

@Toni'sfriend I’m also amazed at how well our freezer contents have lasted. It’s nice to finally have a bit of space in there though. Good to use up some bits including:
half a mozzarella ball stretched to make 2 pizzas
some chopped up apple to go in a crumble
various chunks of frozen cheese
egg whites
bits of frozen veg
frozen coconut milk

Only spend today is for DH business so classing as NSD as well get it back in the next couple of days. Productive day all round.