How to Use Your Time More Wisely

This essay is only for people capable of trying new things and breaking cumbersome habits. You don't have to take any notice to this post if you are not interested but managing your time is a skill worth learning.
My morning is like this: Wake up, dive back under the covers. Seriously, I can do better than this!
Some people can hop out of bed with the sun, say prayers at the exact time and get off to appointments with no worries of being late. If your this person than you are perfect! I can take you as my role model. Doing my morning thing is not good for me. I feel grumpy if I am called, and I have been reading too much of L.M. Montgomery into the night. So I am giving myself some tips. Some may be useful for you, other's you don't have to really pay attention to. .

1. Have something really important to do in the morning so you have a sketchy idea about the beginning of your day.
2. Make a checklist of morning chores like making your bed, etc.
3. Have your clothes laid out before you go to bed so you will know what to do when you wake up.
4. Make sure your brother has a pet rooster near the house.**
5. Have a morning offering ready first thing.
6 Think of a good breakfast. You have had maybe more than ten hours of straight fast while your asleep!

Most helpful tip for me was 3. When I see the outfit I know what to do and it saves me a good rummage in my clothes drawer or closet.


**Don't pay attention to tip 4. My brother Clem has a rooster and a matronly hen outside my window. The rooster crows like he has indigestion, and it is not the happiest bugle call in the morning. I really wouldn't advise this since hearing Stanny has made me grumpy and revengeful of the animal and so I have to pray to St. Francis for guidance.
(I am just kidding!)

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 1384

This is one of the best Mister Rogers! He plays the little puppets, my favorite is Henrietta and Lady Elaine! I love it so much and I hope you do too. (Now he is a perfect example of managing his time wisely.)

On the shelf #2

This Lent I made my first real loaf of bread and it turned ot perfect, though I didn't grease the pan so it stuck and wasn't as pretty on the platter as it was in the pan. We all learn our baking lessons.
I also made a banana cake-like bread, pizza bread, biscuits, which sadly tasted solely of baking powder, More-with-Less is baking powder crazy, since Mom's shortcake turned out like that once!)

I will get some pictures soon!

An early birthday present of a lovely oak bed set with two dressers and a beautiful wardrobe-like closet, along with a bedstead and mattress was given to me by Mom an Dad. It is so wonderful, queeny, and comfortable. I have been reading A Little Princess in it.

Craft wise I have made a little poncho for a little stuffed wolf of mine which is made of blue felt and has little red flowers machine stitched on. It looks very nice and I have been drawing constantly, using new styles and I have made a nature girl which is very pretty with a crown of leaves on her head. Next post I shall have it planned and have a good bit of fun, maybe an essay of some sort, a bundle of facts. Good bye till next time!

Note: My ballet recital is on May 17th, The Old Woman in the Shoe has a Party
at 2:00. Details can be given in person. I am a flower in Mistress Mary's garden and you can laugh at my costume. I will post pictures!;)

blogspot is wonderful!

I am back after such a tedious blog-fast this Lent, but now we are well into the Easter Octave, and I have a lot to tell my dear followers. So it is proven I can go two months without my dear blogspot,but oh, I shall save this sacrifice strictly for lent, I am so glad to get back on that I am ashamed!

Besides having a lovely date to see Cinderella in the cinema with Mom, We have a priest staying with us until May 13th. Fr. W is really helping us in our home, our bickering is lessening and we have daily power walks around the neighborhood, strange smoothies, (one tasted like salad dressing!)and having exercise in the driveway. We also have been having a sugar rush our in between snacks consisting of left over jelly beans, easter bunnies and other confectionary which isn't really the norm, only on Easter and christmas in our house so the little kids are effected and the big kids groan in bed with a pain in the stomach. But we are having a fine time in the Turner hills.

I ordered a nook reader the friday before Holy Week and made a promise not to open it till Easter, thinking it would be easier since it was due on Good Friday. Sadly it was Amazon prime, which has its good points but it arrived on tuesday of Holy week so the suffering of looking at the package was intense.

Bu I am fully enjoying reading all these books, I am just finishing up with The Old Fashioned Girl by Lousia May Alcott. I must start on Robinson Crusoe soon too.

Creative-wise I decided to crochet rosaries for Mama, Papa and Fr. W. It was fine, and easy save the crosses which had difficulties in forming. But I think they enjoyed them. I also made a little book for Mama about what Mother's answer to childrens future, for example, Child:'Mummy, what would happen if I married a king?'Mummy: 'I'd be very happy for you and we'd live in a Castle in the clouds!" My favorite part of making the book was the drawings because I love art.

On March 3rd I had an image in my mind of a crow and a dove, curled around the egg shaped world, the crow was much larger than the dove and I think the crow represents the evil in the world, and the dove goodness. The painting was titled, the Birds Reward, and I don't know how it came to mind.

Anyway I must stop for Fr. W. gave me a job of rubbing something off a chalice with my fingernails, so adieu till next post, mon chere!