Day 16 - Reflect

3 hours disturbed sleep is healthy and normal right?  😬 Probably in the current situation.  Strange though as I went to bed happy and settled but was still looking at 3am on the clock.

I did my rounds of messages to friends to lift their morning with a lovely picture of me. 😂  Just checking in and trying to make everyone smile a little.  I won't post the photos I got back. 😉

Tea from one of my favourite mugs 😋

My big brother Mark turned 50 today!  I can't believe it.   It's a shame to not be celebrating it properly but looking forward to when we can.  He will hate me for posting these, but seeing as he can't get to me to give me a wedgie or squeeze my knee to cause me pain, I'll risk it. 😂

I loved that Atari, oh and you of course 😊

My sister-in-law Nicky set up a Vegas night for them at home.  It looks amazing and he loved it!  I really hope you all have a lovely time and look forward to seeing you soon x

Screen time was the main theme of the day.  The boys have a strictish limit of how much they are allowed on a given day.  Week days are less than weekends but during holidays they are allowed a little more.  Well it kind of went out the window today.

Leo gets bored so turns to other things.  He loves building with his dominoes and does lots of filming in slow motion as they fall over.

Of course we had to have another Scrabble game.  I had 2, 7 letter words, GRAVITY and WHELMED but couldn't put them anywhere! Luckily we aren't scoring yet, which is good because he would kick my butt! 💪😀

Looking for some light entertainment to take your mind off stuff, you have to watch Tiger King.

Rob took Ellis out for a bike ride today.  We were all supposed to go as a family but I really just didn't fancy it.  Rob used to do a lot of cycling and now the weather is getting a bit better and he is home a lot more he thinks he might try and get back into it.  Ellis did really well keeping up so I can see that will help to encourage him to do it, together.  They both have road bikes too so zoom along while me and the other two struggle to keep up.

After lunch I went to my bedroom, shut the door so that I could get some quiet and hopefully not be disturbed.  Rob brought me up a cuppa and I sat there listening to some Brené Brown podcasts.  The first podcast is about FFTs  (fuckin first times).  It's worth checking out, especially as we are all going through a first time pandemic.  You can find it here.   She also has a great TED talk and Netflix program out at the moment. 😊

I listened to one more in bits and pieces, and just spent the afternoon reflecting and processing stuff.  It was really nice.  Thought and emotion provoking but I find it all interesting.  Warm hugs to anyone needing one. 🤗  

Hoping for a better nights sleep and looking forward to a nice sunny day tomorrow.  I don't want to go out though.  I'm going to get up and dressed, maybe do a workout and some chores.  I have a ton of ironing to do but that can wait as I might try and get out in the garden at least.  Hope everyone has a lovely day, but please, please stay home!  I need normal life to resume 😚

Today I've learnt that I need to have breaks like I did this afternoon.  I really needed it.  I'm looking forward to not feeling scared about going out and I'm grateful that I'm not alone. 🤗

Off to hopefully catch some zzzz 😘