It’s hardly worth writing home about but all I have been able to create this week is this pile of sorted receipts ready for calculating to do my tax return. The thing is that I am months ahead of schedule doing this. I’m still waiting to get my tax return back from the previous financial year and only just paid the accountant’s invoice to make sure I could add it to this pile of paperwork.  What can I say ~ taxes and bookkeeping are not my thing.

But you know what this pile of paperwork also says ~ mission accomplished! I said I would do it, I picked a day, I did it. That’s a great feeling!

I have been spending a week at home catching up on things, organising things, cleaning things. It hasn’t been overly creative but it has felt good.

In no order:

• I cleaned out the laundry so I could actually get in there and use the ironing board without causing myself an injury.
• I sorted through the year’s receipts ready to put together our tax returns.
• I’ve indulged in a little retail therapy and played a lady who lunches with a friend.
• I’ve been crossing things off my to do list.
• I’ve enjoyed being a stay-at-home mum for a week as the small ones finish up term 2.

Hubby asked me last night if I was having a nice holiday, despite the fact we/I are not going anywhere. And I said absolutely. And why, because I’m getting things done, in my own pace, in my own time. It’s been grand. {He also sweetly said the other day, when I flagged that I would be spending the day with a box of receipts for company, that was I doing something for me ~ yep, new jeans and a facial are part of my week, too.}

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