I guess I must have written it about a year ago.....
along with some brilliant key friends, I set up a series of succesful art retreats based on the Artful Journey / Squam / Art & Soul / ArtFest model - but in UK / Europe. I am a succesful artist in my own right. I live in an eco friendly home which is warm and welcoming and has a big ktichen table for many friends to eat at. I do a lot of yoga, I have a studio /creative space of my own. I eat clean food. My family are healthy and happy and loved. I am surrounded by a supportive community. I have a campervan!
so all good really, still working on the art retreats, big table and the eco home! some way to go before I could call my food utterly clean (just eaten a big bowl of shreddies with hot milk and sugar) and oh, yes the campervan. come on campo where art thou!!
What else. well our ecomony drive with the menu planning and all is going well. Food expenditure down really rather a lot. Plus we over estimated on how much we eat, and so we have more meals to carry on into next week. Cool. I looked at the bill and worked out that I did kind of still over shop, even though I really tried not to - just little things like buying tea bags for fear of running out, when I actually had enough to last the week, too many veg, a few things that were all a bit treaty and not really necessary. And next week we are going meat buying in the COOP instead as its just as nice and they do a 3 for a tenner deal. Ian bought some bacon at the car boot sale, and its actually really nice stuff - very little shrinkage! and only £6 for loads of it. He reckons he is going to buy some more this weekend, but to be honest I think we will be fine for weeks.
Tomorrow I am going to be doing another practice 121 session of Productivity. OR how to be organised and free up time to do what you really want to do. Hub is huffy because he thinks I am just working for nothing. But I think he's actually a bit under the weather and grumpy.
A while ago I read a book called Wish Craft. Which is all about wishing, for the first half of the book, and then the majority of the book is all about the craft of making it actually happen. This involves setting timelines, and working out where you can actually make the time to do your dream thing. It was clear that family might object and that quite frankly you had to ride with this. As it was change and family do not like change. They do not like mummy doing her thing, especially where she used to actually be helping family out in that time. So I am doing my best to hold down my responses to some of the comments that came out earlier!! bless.
Other things I am thinking about are about Bub's education. Was at French class for him today and the other mums all send their kids to Montessori school and were all talking education. I really want Bub to learn to draw, to speak a foreign language, to swim, to play a musical instrument (read music) and to cook. I am taking reading writing and arithmietic as givens that any school will provide. I would like to teach him the love of adventure and confidence too. But that is slightly more esoteric. Not sure how you get to teach that sort of stuff bar being a living example....hmm. Anyway. Just saying.
Am off to read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. :)
2 comments:
Be example definitely.
My boys are all grown up now but they aren't like most kids of their age. I am pleased with their creativity but even more so with their self awareness. They are both untidy but are thoughtful and honest. Everything else is icing on the cake after that.
thoughtful and honest is definately to be proud of
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