happenings

here i am, the middle of my second week back at work. and it doesn't feel like i was gone for seven months!! work is still ironing itself out. ensuring my projects are running smoothly, when come Wednesday it feels like i'm gaining momentum, but in reality it is the end of my working week - not that i would change that for anything.
i am seriously having to look at managing my time. how i long to be one of those people that spend a leisurely afternoon on Sunday planning the meals for the week. and then civilly shopping appropriately for the ingredients. soon, soon, i tell myself...

i now limit myself to three daily blogs, which i read in the morning. the others i get to a couple of times a week, when kids are asleep. maybe i'll have to post myself once or twice a week, on regular days. lots of thoughts i'd like to post about. about a song or a poem that inspires. about a cause to support that makes me look beyond myself.

on something completely different, here is another photograph from my collection. my maternal great-grandmother (second from the right) Bertha, and her sister (second from the left) Charlotte. their formidable looking mother is in the centre, also Charlotte. i look beyond the faces, to the house, and wonder what daily chaos and activity consumed their family life...