back to routine

It's the first full week of school term so this is our proper return to routine. Which means I am in my own little OCD happy place where I can predict what will happen each day with a fair amount of certainly.

So that means that so far today I have walked to school, caught up on the gossip in the school yard (another school mum has started selling Tupperware - Good Grief, for the life of me I can't understand the call of the plastic). I've been to swimming lessons, done some shop type perusing with a birthday gift in mind and am now eating lunch in front of the computer before I clean floors and bathrooms (it is Tuesday after all). I am aiming to squeeze in some time at the sewing machine between cleaning and walking back up the hill to school; at some point a friend is calling in.

Not a bad routine once holidays are over. As I sometimes think to myself but would never utter aloud - holiday from what? This is actually pretty bloody nice.