Eclectic crafting life Selma style

16th October  

Sunrise at Eastboune last week end

How to you manage? How do you juggle your life and keep all those balls up in the air so to speak?   I hear my own voice in my head saying, take one thing at a time, take small steps and do not look at the bigger picture when all seems too much. Firstly, do you have an inner voice?  Do you listen to it?  Do you have conversations with it, or is it just me?  I love life and generally try to go with the flow, but I feel my life is somewhat of a rollercoaster of a ride and I feel, probably incorrectly, but my perception is that our household is seldom smooth running, fun and hugely entertaining value for money if you consider what has happened here in the last few weeks...
These are questions I often ask myself and my inner voice often replies not to my liking!

Neck braced up and waiting for the ambulance

Week 1:  Daughter taken to local first aid unit as she had hurt her neck and the pain killers I was giving her did nothing, so thought we would go there for stronger ones.  Uh-no!  They neck braced her and sent her off in a blue flashing light ambulance! It was all so surreal, they thought she had fractured her neck!  Luckily she hadn't and it all turned out well, but honestly, it was totally surreal.  I
was going to make her go to training that night and instead she was put in an ambulance! It could have been worse, so we are blessed.

Ahh, the ceiling seems to have fallen down

Week 2:  Had husbands work colleagues over for dinner, but his work had an emergency the night before and he was up until 3am and then he leaves the house again at 0545, so we decided to take said colleagues out for dinner. They were staying the night as they lived quite far away, I knew them not at all.  We came back into the house after eating out, to find water gushing through what was left of the ceiling with the rest of it on the floor!  The water had to be
turned off at the mains, we could not get a plumber at that hour, which meant the water had to stay off and we couldn't even flush the toilets.  Wonder what they made of us! It could have been worse and happened in a room with far more soft furnishings, apart from the ceiling the damage is minimal.

Week 3:  Since my pleurisy back in May my breathing has stayed very laboured and I have struggled to even walk up our single short flight of stairs at home.  Then falling foul to an autumnal cold, I could hardly breathe this week.  Quick visit to the doctor and bloods and x ray taken to see what is going on...  Now a week or so on, I am getting better, so it could have been worse.

Week 4:  Son and husband have a week of loosing EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!  Work bag, school bag, gym kit, one school shoe, a jumper and a broken phone.  The only thing that has been located and retrieved so far was the school bag, everything else still missing in action. URGHHHHHHH  They are both alive and fit and strong, despite loosing and forgetting everything, so I am blessed to have them in my life ;)

Brimble waiting for us to come back and winterise her

Week 5:  Due to unexpected work load we have had to cancel our weekend flights to Scotland to
winterise the boat, money lost on flights and when can we now get back up there to sort out Brimble.  However, we are lucky for it not to cripple us, just have to tighten belts a bit around here for a while, it's no bad thing.

The above is just a very small selection of what has been going on in the past 5 weeks.  I often  look at blogs and can be a tad green at others lives, I remember someone commenting a year or so ago on this blog that I had the perfect life.  My response... I only post that which I am willing to share and often that which is fun and light hearted and full of 'hygge' as the Scandinavians say.  But I also responded by saying not to be fooled as who really does live a charmed life and behind every blog and every face there are many more stories to be told and not all full of warmth and light.  We never know what goes on in a person's life behind their closed doors...

I have just realised that this post does not correlate to the post title, so let's rectify that now...
I have so many ideas in my head and not enough hours in the day, plus trying to make and create some Chrimbo makes for my posting everyday in December as I do, is filling my days up with no spare minutes to be found, but snippets of my makes to show you are...

These will turn out to be glass Christmas trees
to be hung in the window, pop back in
December for more information...

The beginnings of Christmas crochet slippers,
again pop back and see

Not quite a ta dah yet as awaiting handles in the post, yes
handles, my what is it knitted item, will turn out to be a bag!!

Had a few spare minutes yesterday, so stopped
the car in a car park full of birds and began a new knitted idea!

Not a make, but full of inspiration and bought way
too much! The wonderful shop that is the Fluffatorium in Dorking

 

 

Join in with  Amy to share with you my last five week  and my latest makes.

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♥  How do you juggle your life and fit everything in?  ♥