My Childless Days

Now that my children are grown, branched out, starting their own, new lives I've found that I have lots and lots of time.  Some of this I adore, some of it I detest.  Even yet, I haven't quite found out what I really want to do with all this excess time.

We do still have two boys at home, our two youngest and they do make messes, more generally they're kitchen messes after I've gone to bed.  Maybe it's that way because I can't clean up after them after I'm in bed and so it gets out of hand.  But anyhow...

My mornings usually consist of a little cleaning, I still do dishes by hand.  I did invest in a dishwasher but it's never loaded since usually it's just Charles and I eating.  The boys will grab sandwiches during the day, and then they're not hungry for supper, or just plain, do not like eating a sensible dinner.  They are at this age, where, like I said last night, I can honestly understand why some animals eat their young.

So, after my morning ritual of vacuuming, cleaning the dishes that the boys dirtied during the night, wiping down counters, sweeping the floors and tidying up the bathroom I'm kind of like, well, what now?

I'd love to take up sewing, but right now, just do not have the incentive to do so. 

I love to crochet.  I actually should start showing off some of my creations of it, but right now I'm kind of blah on that too.

Seems like my computer is my daily friend for now.  Until I get out of this rut, at least.  But, it's not that terrible (except for the fact that I find myself putting on some extra uninvited pounds).  I do make a couple of dollars on the few sites that I stay on.   Financially, it would be very unstable, but it allows me some of the few things that I wouldn't be able to afford otherwise.

So far, just from my amazon, chacha and microworker sites I've made enough money to buy diapers for the grandbabies a couple of times, a GPS for the car, a fish finder for the husbands excursions while fishing, quite a few ebooks, quite a few of my crochet patterns and a few other things. 

Seems I need to fire up my camera (the one my daughter gave me (:  ) and get this blog to going.

And some words I could use myself.  These are the words of a very wise woman: "If you haven't good judgment you'll never make a good cook or anything else."
- Mary Mason Campbell, Kitchen Gardens