1. Learn Spanish and study a lot (so I can stop pointing and rifling through the dictionary)
2. Lose 11 kilos (going from 61 to 50 kilos --my pre Little S weight)
3. read 1 book a month and organize books (Dewey decimal system most likely)
4. organize the office (scary place where we can never find anything)
5. start scrapbooking for the kids (I have all the stuff just never had time--it´s important because I´m going to lose all the trinkets I´ve saved)
6. stop shopping at Walmart, ugh! (it´s a hypermarché here and right up the street from us so I´ve become lazy about my principles)
7. learn to sew (I bought the machine...it´s a start)
8. start or join a bookclub (I may have to start one because I haven´t heard of any--it will be hard to order books too so I´m not sure how it will work)
9. work with Little S on his English one afternoon a week (so he learns to spell with phonics)
10. learn to bake bread and make tortillas (our household help may be able to teach me to make the tortillas)
Seb pointed out "tu a vraiment rien a faire...hein" (you really have nothing to do all day, huh?).
I guess I am a lady of leisure these days.
5 comments:
Lady of leisure? Aren't you nursing a newborn? And primary caregiver to a preschooler? And don't you pretty much run your household of four? I imagine you prepare most meals as well.
Doesn't sound all that leisurely to me!
Anyway, sewing is not that hard at all. Once you get the hang of it. Patience. Patience. Patience. And also: Measure twice (or three or four times to be sure). Cut once.
I also want to get my office organized, but I need to buy some furniture first so I can put things away.
Yes that´s exactly what I told him!
Oh wow everyone sews but me. Why is this? At least I´ll have a lot of help if I run into problems. My first project is curtains so the measuring should be easy.
I don't sew. But Allan has his mother's machine, which is the same make and model as my mother's machine. If I ever get inspired to try my hand at sewing, I won't feel so intimidated!
The sewing part is easy. For me, the hardest part is cutting. I can't cut straight to save my life. I have to ask my husband to cut the fabric for me. I'm making 9x4ft curtains right now, and even though I've had the fabric since the day before DD was born, it's taken me 18 months to finish them because I was afraid to cut into the gorgeous fabric and ruin it!
Patience really is the key. Otherwise, it's easy.
I would like to learn Spanish!
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