Almost the instant I
clicked ‘Publish’ on my last blog post, where I celebrated the end of sickness
in our household and began to look to the year ahead, I came down with another
cold. This one was swift and mean, leaving me no choice but to spend yet another
weekend curled up in my bed, drifting between sleep and silent contemplation as
I listened to my precious family downstairs doing weekend-y things and longing
I was there with them.
And so, I have been
purposefully trying to stick to my NYR to ‘Do Less. Be More’. It means I
haven’t really had much to blog about, as I haven’t really achieved much (that
you can see that is). It’s a little more challenging than I had predicted as I
actually have to stop myself doing things! Usually the moment I am child-free I
set about getting things together for one project or another, or I cram in all
of the things I just can’t do with a little person under my feet, like build
the shelves in my garage. But this past week I haven’t, and it’s been wonderfully
refreshing. At first I felt a huge pressure to make something (pressure from
myself that is, as I really don’t know where else it would come from) but now
that pressure is less so. I have actually discovered that I am in some way
liberated by this and creativity has become slightly more organic. Is that what
I mean? I think it is…?
Anyway, I wanted to
stop by the say ‘Hello!’ and to show you what I have been doing between all the
moments of not very much.
On a whim I purchased
some pain pens to doodle on some of the beach treasures I bought back from last
year’s holiday. Annoyingly I picked up a silver pen instead of a white one, but
that’s because I had a very tired toddler with me at the time and I simply
wasn’t paying enough attention!
They’re not the very
best, but I enjoyed myself and would definitely do more of this! As each pebble
is like a miniature work of art there really is no pressure to keep going until
you have a masterpiece because they’re over pretty quickly anyway! (Although I
could have happily carried on all day, I ran out of pebbles)
I also, again on a
whim, bought a pattern to make some crochet slippers. This is something I have
though about making for a long time, but I never got round to it. My week of
slowing down meant that when the thought came into my head this time I was
actually able to say ‘YES! Lets make!’ I made them in an evening whilst
watching a film and stopping only for cheesecake; it might be quicker without
the break for dessert but hey :) (It was Millionare Shortbread Cheesecake you
understand.)
So that’s where I am,
where are you? When was the last time you slowed down to just Be-ing? Maybe
give it a go and see what happens; it can only be good!
Thanks for stopping
by,
See you soon
Hayley
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