It's my Crafty Mom Era | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Nov 7-13, 2022
Who needs sleep, anyway?
In the latest installment of my memoir, What It’s Like to be the Most Impressionable Person Alive, I have purchased a fabric advent calendar and am determined to become a crafty mom just in time for the festive season.
Why did I do this? Oh, simply because I saw another woman on Instagram doing it WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!
For clarity, I should say that my sister warned me not to do this but here I am – the overpriced calendar is on the way and I have started to accumulate bits and bobs to pop in the pockets. Crafts galore!
See you in a little over two weeks’ time when I will undoubtedly be frantically stuffing crap in the pockets at midnight on November 30th…
Monday
Can I just say: while I have been longing for someone to come and visit me in Fort Wayne, I vastly underestimated how exhausted I would be after a week of gallivanting, especially when my life is 75% home-based. (That is a conservative estimate.)
So after my week of entertaining the cousins, not to mention the drama that ensued when they tried to leave – maybe Fort Wayne is the Hotel California of American cities – I take today to truly rest and relax and recover.
This has cemented my belief that I could never have made this move, were I going to a big city – imagine how absolutely wrecked I’d be with the plethora of visitors I’d be getting in New York! (I wouldn’t be able; I’d have to lie and tell people I wasn’t available at least half of the time.)
Anyway, Atlas and I have a very chilled morning. I make him porridge for his breakfast with peanut butter and raspberry jam in it, which sounds weird but is the perfect balance of sweet and salty and makes me feel like a true hero for adding protein to his porridge, and then we play with his latest Lovevery toy, a little wobbly ring stacker thing that he loves, but cannot play with unsupervised, as he keeps trying to feed the wooden rings to Vinny.
Then we watch the first half of Encanto before nap time.
Once he’s down, I get some work done – follow up on some invoices, answer some emails about podcast sponsorship and a few Instagram collabs I may have coming up, and write a piece for Substack.
I think I have a piece due for Evoke – I’ve been working on some content bits for them – but when I check my schedule I am very grateful to see that this is an off week, and my next piece isn’t due til next Wednesday!
I order some Christmas bits from Etsy1 – a gift for the boys’ mum, some cute wrapping paper and Christmas cards from the one shop and a random tiny gift for my Mum. ($150.74)
Once Atlas wakes up, he has a very healthy lunch of, er, packet macaroni and cheese (have you listened to the latest episode of the podcast, by the way? I interviewed my cousin Roseanne about her time in Fort Wayne and one of the most shocking things she found about the Midwest was the popularity of mac and cheese, lol).
When Brandin gets home with the boys at around 4.30pm, we’ve watched the second half of Encanto, made an incredible mess of the living room (and tidied it up twice) and I’ve made pizza dough, for home-made pizza for dinner.
Post-dinner, it’s shower and bath time – after yesterday’s Daylight Savings debacle, it’s so much darker at night now and the time the boys had been spending outside is cut to around 30 minutes, which is a pity – and we’re all in bed by 9.30pm.
(Up again at: 11.57am, 2.15am, 4.43am… THE JOYS.)
Daily total: $150.74
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