Bits and Pieces in Days of My Destiny

The bunk beds we ordered for our girls for Christmas never showed up. That’s because the company we bought them off went into receivership. Thankfully we’d bought the item off ebay so we got our money back. Next move is to find another bunk bed we are happy with, hopefully on ebay. It’s looking harder than I thought, as I know the kind of look I’m going for and it’s hard to get delivery out here. Oh well. It will all work out. In the meantime, the girls are being very patient about it. I think they may have even forgotten about it lol.

My older siblings and I have begun discussions on how to approach the future situation of mum and dad needing care. How will we go about this financially? When do we start preparing for this? When do we involve the younger 4 siblings? Who takes care of what? And so on. I’m SO glad we are fleshing this out. It’s something that’s been on my mind for quite some time. L had told me to wait another year or so as he thought it was too soon, but you know what, I just felt that now is the time to be talking about it, when the pressure to make decisions isn’t there. Dad has worked his butt off since he was a child and he won’t stop until his body does, which could be in 5-10 years’ time. And as for mum, she hasn’t lived the healthiest lifestyle, putting her at risk anyway. So yes. It’s good to be having this discussion.

I babysat Helen’s kids today. They get along with my kids so well. They were in my house for 13 hours and it honestly didn’t feel like it! I was grumpy at one point in the afternoon but mainly at Little L who just makes mess everywhere she goes. I get that mess is part of being a kid, but THAT kid is something else lol. Plus, I was tired.

I need to make sure that I make 11pm my bedtime and take it seriously. It’s 5 to 11 now and I still need to shower so I will do that super quickly. By bedtime at 11 I mean lights out at 11. Realistically I need to be in bed by 10pm so that gives me an hour of quiet reading time, which I really enjoy. Tonight I obviously won’t be doing any reading, unlike last night. I went to bed at 11 and read until a quarter to midnight. It’s not good. I’m getting too old to play with my sleep. I need to take better care of myself.

Currently reading “Losing the Last 5 Kilos” by Michelle Bridges. I bought this book about 2 years ago and then before reading it myself, I let a friend borrow it and she’s had it all this time lol. I recently got it back and I’m hoping it kicks my butt back into action. I’ve been doing some very randomized little tiny pieces of almost-exercise, like swinging briefly off my chin-up bar. I can’t pull myself up, I just jump up and then hold myself there for as long as I can. The idea is that I pull myself slowly down to build up muscle but I’m not quite there yet. I can hold myself for 20 seconds and then lower myself slowly halfway down before completely letting go. I will get there :)

10:58pm, I better go. This has to start somewhere! And in winter I’ll make my bedtime sooner.

Night night!