an empty day

Every now and then I wake up and look at the calendar and see that nothing is on it. And I smile. And I wonder why I don’t have more days like that. I didn’t even take a shower today. I’m not doing anything or going anywhere superimportant, and besides we’re supposed to be conserving water anyway. I’ve managed to refile and recategorize my coupons and organize my photos for 2007 and 2008. I did run out to Michael’s and use my 40% coupon to get a little 8×8 scrapbooking album. I started a “My Gardens” album and put all the photos from last year’s garden in there. Now I can put my diagrams of this year’s gardens in there and eventually I’ll put photos in there, too. It will be a nice way to track how I progress as a gardener and will be a way to remember what I’ve grown and what was successful, too. All this grocery shopping has made me miss my family, my kids a lot. I have spent as much time couponing and calculating and actually shopping and putting away food into storage and cabinets that I would have spent on a real job this past week. It’s made me realize that I don’t want to be working outside the home at the moment because I wouldn’t have the time to do what I am enjoying most: hanging out with my children.