Yippee! A Day at Home!

Our days at home have been few and far between since....well, since forever. 

I was going to say "since the cruise" but looking back to before that I would have to say "since Christmas' but even last fall was busy so "since fall" but then I look back to the summer and all of the time spent on US 30 and in Wooster and I can't really remember when we had many days 'at home.' 

So today, because Blaine and Hilary agreed to dinner last night rather than tonight for her 34th birthday, we are at home all day today.

And as usual my To Do list is long.  And also as usual, not too many things are being crossed off, but the ones that are have been important and probably items that really aren't noticed.

• Birthday cards addressed and some of them mailed.  April and May are months where our family has many birthdays so I tried to stock up on cards yesterday at Target, addressed them, mailed a few, and stacked the others on top of the hutch to be mailed at the appropriate times.
• Calls made.  We need to order a dumpster.  Gary is on the phone now to do that.  We need to schedule our New Owner Orientation and he will call about that after the dumpster is ordered.
• Plants watered.  Always needed, usually forgotten.
• Ladybugs swept up.  After Gary sprayed last week, the population of ladybugs in the living has decreased significantly.  However, the remainders of the deceased specimens litter the window seat, the floor, the tops of the bookcases.
• Calendar caught up.  With so many events at the end of the school year, baseball season starting, and the multiple family birthdays, I needed to catch up exactly what was happening and where we needed to be and when.  After talking to Hilary this morning, we opted to not spend as many nights at their house and to set the alarm earlier here at home so we can sleep in our bed and shower in our own bathroom a few more nights. There now seems to be more 'at home' time in the month of April that I originally thought.
• Online Bible Study, Reading the Bible in 365, Journaling - all of these things take time and I rarely have time to really focus.  Just hit and miss.  So I took some time to read this morning.  I responded in the FB group I am part of for the OBS, I posted in the FB group for Rhonda and me.  I also caught up on the food journal that Karen S. and I are doing.  
• Shower and shampoo and ready for the day.  One of the first things I did was hop in the shower, wash and dry my hair, and be ready for whatever the day held.  I like to do that just in case I need to go someplace or someone happens to stop by (which is never because we are never home but you never know!).  So I am clean and I am wearing leggins today!  Comfy for sure.
• Catching up on emails.  I am worried about Karen W on Whidbey Island and I am trying to write more often.  My next task is a short (yeah, right) note to her.

Next up after lunch will be going upstairs to work on drawers or closets.  I really need to work on cleaning those out and I keep putting it off because I don't have enough time.  What I would rather do is start a new book or work on Amanda's table runner for her birthday, but I will force myself to climb the stairs and pull open the drawers of the dresser.  Trash bags need to go upstairs with me.  Maybe Landon and I can run into Goodwill on Saturday morning and take a donation!

I love days at home. Maybe if I were here all of the time and I never went anywhere and I didn't have anything to do I would dread each day.  You know, I was always afraid that when I retired, I would spend each day in my pajamas, watching tv, thinking that I needed to do things but always putting them off until the next day.  How far from the truth has that been?

But I am enjoying this day at home.  It is now 12:50 p.m.  I am hoping for the rest of the day to be just as smooth as the first half has been.

Happy Camper I am!