LONGEST TIME EVER

Today I want to do three things.

1. Tidy the bedrooms/house after the weekend.

2.  Do heaps of washing.

3.  Make some awesome progress on Chris D's bag!

I cannot believe how long it has taken me to get just the front outside panel quilted!  I must admit though, I have done a shit load more on it than my 'usual' wriggly lines up and down!

ABOVE:  I am sure you cannot even tell what I've done... but it's quite a few hours worth of sewing!  NOW I can finally move on to the actual 'construction' phase, which shouldn't take too long... maybe a few days?
I'm only managing to get a couple of hours worth of sewing done every couple of days ... so Chris D... hang in there!  
I will get it done eventually!

Right... off to get started on the housework, washing and getting the kids to school...

ONWARD...

Last night when I went to bed... I had all these plans to do this, and that, and even the other thing today.  Even wrote it down this morning.  And NOW?
Really don't feel like doing anything!
Tired.  
And the only thing I can think of that has made me feel like this?

The BLOW OUT yesterday.  Too much crap.  Don't think that will happen again in a hurry.

ABOVE:  Today's work out involves lots of bending... and reaching... and pulling heavy shit around.
Almost finished too... taking time out to catch me breath and cool down.

Bex and I decided to try making apple fritters for lunch.  Someone had said you grate an apple into a beaten egg and fry it.
So we did.

ABOVE:  but... I think we were supposed to drain a lot of the apple juice out before adding it to the egg, cos we ended up with really watery, apple tasting scrambled eggs.  It wasn't that nice.
So we added some flour and baking powder to the 2nd half of the mixture and that came out much, much better.  Oh and I fried them in a pan greased with a little butter.
Was REALLY NICE.  

So... today I moved Griffin into the 'spare' bedroom... now to be called his room. 
His old room is now the 'spare' bedroom.  This will resolve a few issues we were having with him.  Primary one being he no longer has to walk past his sister's room to get to his.
Believe it or not, this has been a problem!

AND now the spare bedroom has room in it for a porta-cot, so when Lacy comes over for the night she's not struggling to move in the room.
Or if Kelly comes over with Rena, they have enough room too.

I am also really happy that I got 80% of the washing out on the line and racks.  AND I got the laundry cleaned up too.  
Bex is now vacuuming the house... we disturbed a bit of dust during the morning.  And the crap that came off the laundry floor! Ikkkk... bits of dog biscuits all over the place.

CHRIS D:  I am loving doing your bag.  It's a bit different to what I've made before, so it's fun.  I am going to work on it again tonight, at least I will be sitting down!  I've not sat down much today at all.

AND I just had my first bath this year!  Well... I think I might have had one last year too!  But only one.  I'm a shower girl, but this afternoon I really felt like a nice hot bath.
It drains you though!  I hardly have any energy to even comb out my hair!

End of Day:  well after being on my feet and doing heaps today... I'm paying for it now with an incredibly sore foot/leg.
Trying to walk without putting too much weight on my heel has just made other parts of my foot/let hurt like mad too.
Bummer.
nite nite

KATE IN WELLY:  Bed, Bath & Beyond about 3 years ago from memory.