a week of good news, glimmers and choosing the slow path
monday
I woke up early this morning with the anticipation of a possible walk. Last night I intentionally gathered all of my books, journals, laptop, ipad, and athleisure and set it out for my morning routine today. I was up early enough to see the sky turn from a deep indigo purple blue to a grey. Once I saw those pink clouds, it swayed me from a maybe to a yes for a morning walk. It was a short one, but totally worth it. It was in the sixties this morning and it was quite chilly with the wind. I even made it out for a second walk before the busy morning began.
This morning felt a bit chaotic with my reading routine, but there is just so much I want to prioritize. I read my devotional, some poetry by Mary Oliver, some of my fiction book, and took book notes on the Artists Way book. Maybe it would be easier to break it all up throughout the day and just do longer sessions of one thing at a time. But it also feels good to know I made progress in all of my reading already. It'll just have to be something I experiment with.
Now I'm spending some time at the dining table prepping for the week ahead. I have quite the list in my notes app of things I want to do and figure out today: homeschool planning, meal planning, fill out my planner, a cleaning schedule for the week, clean out the fridge and pantry, grocery list, events, field trips and activities of the week, paycheck planning, what treat im going to get after my appointment this week, shows and movies that are coming out that I want to watch, blog post series planning, blog organization, crafting ideas for the week, writing down ideas I've saved from pinterest, bullet journaling, junk journaling, crocheting, reading, walking, habits to work on, routines and rhythms ideas, finish my weekend collage, edit and post my youtube video, youtube video planning, pinterest ideas, closet organization, clean my makeup brushes, gather inspo from my journals for creative projects, etc. As you can see... that is ALOT. I most definitely wont get to it all today, but I at least want to plan for it today, as in schedule it out in my planner.
tuesday
I definitely made some progress on my to do list yesterday, but I think I was trying to do too much planning for different topics in one day, so I hope to finish that today. I've finished most of the homeschool planning and logical planning for other things, so today will be more creative based. I also need to research and plan meal and snack ideas for my dietary restrictions so that I already have a list made before it's time to head to the store. I'm thinking of having a balance of foods that take little prep work but also trying new recipes to cook for dinner.
wednesday
I am so glad I had a productive monday and tuesday because I did not sleep well last night. It could have been that I went to bed way later than I would have wanted to and I was scrolling on my phone. I think I was anxious for what today would bring. I have my cardiologist appointment where I'll be getting my results for all of my tests: heart ultrasound, heart monitor, treadmill stress test. I am praying for great news and I'm ready to just put this behind me. On doctor appointment days, I like to list things I can look forward to after the appointment. For this set of cardiologist appointments I have been getting myself little treats. After my first test, I got a lamb build a bear to be a physical representation of victory in Christ. After my second test, I got some mystery toys. And after my last test, I got the build a bear mini beans mystery toys. I'm not sure I want another mystery toy, so I was trying to think of something I've been really wanting. The only thing that came to mind was the citrus bird calico critters. But even that I'm unsure about. I'm planning on stopping by sprouts this morning before my appointment to get some kind of gluten free pastry for breakfast, so maybe while I'm there I can pick out some fun treats and snacks to have a self care day after my appointment. Off the top of my head, i'd pick up: some kind of fun drink like a shirley temple olipop, gluten free cookies, sour candy and then something savory or salty.
What I got at sprouts: katz gluten free munchkins, forager greek yogurt, sprouts gluten free tuxedo cookies, lesser evil cheetos, seven sundays berry sunflower cereal, yum earth sour giggles, stonyfield yogurt drinks, strawberries, gluten free lucky spoon chocolate cupcakes, hu chocolate chips and the new berries and cream poppi. I guess today was my lucky day because I stumbled across one random berries and cream poppi and its apparently a new flavor that came out this month! I wasn't able to find any shirley temples, but this is almost better because trying a new flavor is always exciting.
After breakfast, I headed to my doctor appointment. It was all great news! There was nothing concerning on any of my tests and I can put this behind me. This has been a sixth month process (and thought about for much longer) since my first appointment with the cardiologist to my last.
After my appointment we headed to Walmart because my husband wanted to pick up some coffee and I took it upon myself to check out the build-a-bear section. The entire shelf that held the mystery mini bean collection was empty. I'm so glad I got all of the ones I got a few weeks ago because I anticipated this would happen. I perused the rest of the mystery toy aisle (which had its own dedicated aisle) and stumbled across the strawberry short cake LOL doll collab. It came in this cute strawberry house, and there were a variety of characters you could get. I got orange blossom which is very fitting because Im a Florida girl, and aside from strawberry shortcake herself, is probably at the top of my list as to which one i'd want. I picked up some mini dr pepper cans and the Chobani sweet cream creamer to make a dirty soda since I didn't finish my morning coffee. I might have my new poppi flavor with dinner tonight (which is pizza!). I was craving a coconut creamer vibe with my dr pepper but my store didn't have any I wanted, and it also only had the sugar free coconut dr pepper flavor, so I just went with the OG dirty soda combo.
When we got home I threw together a yogurt bowl with the berry cereal, hu chocolate chips and strawberries. I'm so glad I picked a no cook easy to prep lunch. I just lounged for the rest of the day, watched some of my fav YouTubers and ate some of my fun snacks.
My husband is picking up dominos and I got one of my new fav combos: gluten free crust with garlic parmesan sauce, light pepperoni, light pineapple, onions, buffalo sauce and ranch. Because of the late sunset (nearly 8 pm now), we'll most definitely have time for at least a neighborhood walk. I want to have a very intentional wind down routine tonight with minimal screens and cozy vibes. Maybe read a chapter in my book, and call it an early night.
We ended up going on that evening walk. and. w.o.w. things like this remind me how simple decisions like going on a walk or not going on a walk can be so meaningful. I saw a little "jesus loves you" character in a tree, a ton of bunnies, including a baby bunny and their family, and a beautiful sunset, all while moving my body, feeling the cool breeze and the sunshine on my face. We then ran to publix real quick because my husband wanted to partake in the cupcake fun (I got gluten free ones at sprouts earlier) but he wanted the publix bakery ones (I totally understand). While we were there I picked up all of my matcha ingredients: ceremonial matcha, almond milk and maple syrup because I'm either out or nearly out of what I need. I'm not sure yet if I want a matcha tomorrow or if I'm going to do a hot black tea with the sweet cream creamer I got earlier. Today was adventurous in a lot of ways and I'm feeling so grateful. I'm excited to have a slower paced day at home tomorrow and I might even (silent) vlog it.
Thursday
It was a weird day. I think I liked how busy yesterday was and today felt like the complete opposite. Sometimes I like that, sometimes it makes me antsy. But there were still glimmers in today. I got outside for a morning walk and I made some strawberry syrup to use in my matcha for strawberry matchas. AND IT WAS AMAZING. I don't know why it took me so long to try this out, it's like gourmet coffee shop level good. I spent some time today thinking about how I want to build my creative ecosystem. Again, I was weighing the pros and cons of returning to short form social media in some capacity, but I still feel like the cons outweigh the pros. I'm thinking of using Pinterest for the curated aesthetic itch I have for photography and just continuing my moments gathered videos on my main channel to share moments throughout the week, along with my blog posts. I'm considering starting a second youtube channel for story times, behind the process type videos, and things explained. One reason why I shy away from traditional vlogging is because it felt like I was explaining my life while the silent vlogs more so share the experience of it. So these type of explaining videos on my second channel would be more central to one topic or focus which might work better for me.
Friday
This week felt like the longest week, but it also feels like where did the week go? I really want to get out of my funk so lets make today get out of my funk Friday. I think having a creative day would help. I always have a variety of projects im working on and crafting projects I could start, so Im excited to see what I get up to. I think one thing that is throwing me off is that we haven't done our big grocery shop yet, so I've got to work with what we have, unless I want to run to the store this morning (which I don't want to). Thankfully I still have my yogurt bowl ingredients I bought earlier this week, and for lunch i'm thinking of doing waffles, hash browns and a smoothie, and we have a variety of snacks so I think we'll be fine today. I am excited for this weekend because its bound to be errand heavy at least with grocery shopping.
Today was a pretty successful day in terms of creative projects. I wrote a script yesterday explaining my journey with leaving short form social media and today I sat down and filmed a 45 minute video about it. It's going live on Sunday on my second YouTube channel. I'm also catching up with my auditory witnessing podcast. I'm hoping this weekend I can get ahead of the content creation so I can start to follow more of a rigid schedule.
We ended the evening with some icecream and watched a new movie on netflix called roomates. It was really good! and definitely had an unexpected ended. I would recommend it!
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