It's Tuesday...

and I'm ill equipped to deal with... well everything really.
It takes me half the week to gain some sort of a reasonable flow after the weekend and by then I already in winding down mode in readiness for the weekend... do you see my  dilemma?

Tuesday is half day school day in Algeria which is bad news for someone like me, because it means I only have to be half  hearted at staying on schedule... Which in turn means that if i'm not careful the whole day could go to pot... seriously!

My morning thus far has consisted of me waking at 6am to pray, make pancakes and get children off to school.. a cold 7.30am walk with the 8yr old and copious amounts of tea.. and a significant amount of chocolate generously donated by the dh last night. He clearly senses some kind of a hormonal spiral at some point in the week... up or down we don't know but it's bound to happen. I feel justified (of course!) in having watched Julie & Julia for the umpteenth time this morning while having breakfast... because it's Tuesday... and it's the day I have to organise the weekly housekeeping budget and figure out how to afford to feed people in the week ahead. it's a grown up thing.. so I've been diligently and laboriously.. browsing blogs, blogging myself and doing a row of knitting whilst mucking about aimlessly with my calculator making it look like I know, and care about what I'm doing.

It's a bit cold here , so I predict a spot of comfort cooking later in the day after I've braved the elements to collect the 8yr old. and then hopefully some quality time with my yarn... YES!!! I'm knitting .. for the first time since the smallest of my tribe was born I am in a committed relationship with a pattern and some knit sticks...
It's slowly coming along, but I'm revealing nothing till it's safely on the back of my 12yr old and out of slightly flummoxed hands.

And there you have it... I have snuck into the New Year without fuss or bother.. I managed to keep my head low and not make a single resolution and it feels good!
My plan for this year is to keep it simple... and keep it real.
Easy as that... inshallah.
I'm doing what feels good and appropriate when it feels good and appropriate to do it. I'm saying No to stress and stressful people and it feels so stupidly liberating that I wonder why I didn't do it sooner!

So far in the first couple of weeks of the New Year it's consisted largely of feeding people, stepping back and looking at things with a different perspective and alot of James and the Giant Peach read to the 8yr old...
Some of my children are looking a bit confused but it's all good.. they'll figure me out eventually.