wiseheart | Saturdays are the worst (Reply)

... in terms of slave labour. Firstly because Saturday is always laundry day, and laundry has to be done in very specific ways in our house. I won't bore you with details, just let me tell you that they are time-consuming and leave it there.

Also, since Mum had been waiting for the postwoman to deliver her pension yesterday, her weekly shower ritual got postponed for today. Also a time-consuming process, which is why we usually do it on Friday, but it apparently wasn't doable this week.

Then I had to cook today. Veggie burgers are fairly yummy (if someone likes veggies, which I don't), but making them is what? You've guessed right: time-consuming. Grrr! And I also had to make apple compote to turn our hard and completely taste-free apples into something enjoyable. Oh, joy - not! So I was multitasking in earnest all morning and early afternoon, seriously feeling like a house Elf of Harry Potter.

Still, I managed to finish the back cover insides of both baby books, out of sheer, pig-headed stubbornness. Behold the results:

The one on the left is the boy version, the one on the right the girl version. Obviously. They are similar, though not entirely identical, due to the fact that I didn't always have the exact same paper pieces, but I like the outcome.

After all this, I slept through the rest of the afternoon. Then I got up, transcribed some more of the chapter-in-work and am about to add today's paragraphs to the rest on