TV / Movies addiction - time to change

I've felt this for some time now but it became very clear to me today that I might have an addiction to watching movies - specifically watching same TV series over and over again. It gives me comfort and lifts my spirits to watch something so familiar and close to heart. I've been known to quote lines from a movie or TV series when real life reminds me of something I've seen before. I love living somebody else's life in a movie. I think I will need to change that. It takes up a lot of my time and I don't even learn anything new. It's time to change my routine and see what I can do to stop multitasking all the time - cooking and having a movie in the background, crafting and having a movie in the background, spending 2 hours of my time at the end of the day "relaxing" in front of Netflix / Youtube. I don't even own a TV - I knew a long time ago that I won't turn it off to do other things but now computers / Netflix / Youtube made it so easy to watch what I crave at the moment. And then keep going until there is no time to do anything else. So here it is - from no on when I cook, I will cook to music from my music player, when I put my daughter to sleep, I will stretch and do a little bit of yoga, before doing my chores. And I will think of a reward for spending time with real people or concentrating on one task at a time. Maybe a Candy Store visit? Hmmm, sounds pretty good.

New beginnings

It's been a long time since I posted anything. Been busy with my daughter E. and now I am looking forward to upcoming weekend. E. will spend the night at the grandmother's and my husband and I will clean up the house to make our in-house business set up more efficient and it will be a start of turning one of the downstairs rooms into a playroom. I will post some pictures of our 2 rooms - before and afters... It might take a while though for the after... :) Probably something like this -

Here is to a good, productive weekend! And grandmothers, who love their granddaughters! :)

Great book reading

A few days ago I started reading this book.

It is a very interesting and enjoyable book. I have big plans after reading it! And it's a little intimidating but I think it will be great to finally take my crafts more seriously. Looking forward to putting more work into it to see it all grow...

New Etsy shop

A few weeks ago I decided to do something different from all the crochet and knit items I did in the past and opened a new Etsy shop! It is called Stencilation and here are some items that I already posted:

One of the best salads ever!

Recently I discovered a very delicious salad combination. Red cabbage, orange bell pepper, a golden delicious apple and a little bit of lemon juice... A little sweet, a little sour, crunchy and juicy!

New items in my Etsy shop

So I finally found some time to update my Etsy shop . Here are a few listings from today:

Feeling quite accomplished today...:)

Mommy's guilt

Today is quite a hard day for me. I've been up multiple times last night and early this morning attending to my daughter who has a stomach bug. And while my husband's job is flexible enough that he can stay home with our daughter E. when she is sick and can't go to daycare, I am stressed and feeling guilty that I can't stay home with her. My job is fairly flexible and I can take unpaid time off, but I can't work from home and that creates my dilemma.

While I love working for a small company, if I need to take time off, there is nobody to work for me that day and I need to make sure that one other person in the office (my boss) doesn't have appointments or travel plans if I want a day off. Part of my job is to actually BE in the office.

When my daughter is sick, I feel like I should be the one staying with her and comforting her. I guess it's the thing about being a mother - the need to comfort your child when she's not feeling a 100%...

On days like this I start thinking significantly more about working flexible hours / work from home where I can rearrange my day to suit my family's needs. Maybe this day will be one more push I need to actually take this step in the next year or so.