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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

When all else fails, there's always food

What may not be apparent from my recent blog posts is that I'm feeling distinctly under par recently - in fact, it's fair to say that I'm verging on the slightly depressed. I've been trying very hard to work out why this might be because I normally LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this time of the year and would normally be getting childishly excited about Christmas and so on. Don't get me wrong, I'm getting excited about Christmas (I mean, CHRISTMAS! Come on!) but I just have this faint, underlying hint of weariness and sadness going on that I just can't shift.

I've come to the conclusion that it's because I've spent the best part of this year fretting. Fretting over money, the house, my weight ..... f*****g school place for April (grrrr!!!!!). Never mind what the Chinese might say, this has been the Year of the Worrier. Now, we're getting to the end of the year and it's like I've boiled over - I've realised I've wasted sooo much time fretting and not enough time relaxing and enjoying being with my family and homeschooling and stuff.

So here's my (public!) brain dump....

Money: Tim and I have NEVER had much - never worried about it before so what's the point now? No point, so bloody stop it Sarah!

The House: Now the landlords have jibbed off the crappy agents, things are sooo much better. The agents were nosey and lousy at passing on messages. Now, they're gone and we're being left alone and things are peaceful. Hurrah. Stop worrying!

My weight: No, I'm not hugely fat but being slightly abbreviated in height means I look a little dumpier than I should. Tim loves my figure and most of the time it doesn't bother me. Or does it? Maybe it's been getting me down more than I thought BUT I have been trying to do something about it with the trampolining and yoga. Sticking at it is the problem.

School place for April: In my heart of hearts, I KNOW that I'm going to end up homeschooling her. She's coming along in leaps and bounds, she's happy and she hates to be stuck in one place too long. So why am I'm even THINKING about posting that ruddy form tomorrow? Why do I do it to myself?! *sighs*.

So there we have it. Maybe now I've realised (at least part of) the problem, I'll start feeling better.

Anyway, one thing I've always been able to rely on to make me feel a hell of a lot better, is cooking *smiles*. Here is the lemon drizzle cake I made yesterday (with icing running all over the worktop!):

Today, I made lovely, crusty bread rolls for lunch (they were sooo yummy with tuna mayonaise!):

Tonight, we're having a lovely chicken casserole made by Tim and I intend to crash out in bed with Pride and Prejudice on dvd. Oooo! Mr Darcy! Bliss.