~ playing catch up ~

I'm playing catch-up with the 52 lists project today but I also feel like that's a bit like what my whole life is at the moment.

 - I fished not-very-dirty-but-definitely-not-clean soccer socks out of the laundry for Lil to wear to training today (I don't think I'm ever going to catch up on the washing until the weather clears).

 - I'm playing phone tag with a couple of friends whom I haven't spoken to in months (I probably will never catch up on their winter news).

 - I owe a couple of people snail mail  - a nice job but not high on the priority list.

 - the front path is still waiting for a make-over 4 years down the track of me promising to get onto it.

 - last years bulbs are still in the garage!!

 - let's face it ... I'm never going to get on top of editing/filing/sorting all my photos...unless I put down the camera for a year and dedicate myself to it full time that is.

How are you going?
Are you super-organised and on top of things?
Or playing a little catch up?

What are your favourite childhood books?

♥

~ lists of lists ~

{beside my bed}

{things I'd like in my fridge}

{good things about my town}

{a few of my favourite cookbooks}

I'm huddled in the study wishing I was in front of the fire.  Gosh its got cold.
I'm also wishing;   

• we had heating in here
•  I could blog from my ipad (I'm sure its possible - I just don't seem to have the necessary skill set)
• that the Fuji instax mini I ordered today would arrive soon

What's for dinner at your house?
What are you wishing for?
 
Are you making lists yet?  I'm making a list a week (roughly) as part of Pip's #52lists project on her blog and on IG.


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~ lists about biscuits and things... ~

 

A catch-up pictorial list of lists!
I remember to post these on instagram but then forget to update them here.
I think we're up to week #18 - and I'm really enjoying this #52 lists project - thanks Pip!

What are your favourite biscuits?
Do you still have your swap cards??

♥
(ps - I did add another thing to my warm my heart list before I stuck it in my journal - witnessing a birth - I've been lucky enough to have been present at many births as part of my medical training  - I think I've cried at every single one)

~ baking, relaxing and my style icons ~

Autumn's chill is definitely here today - I've lit the fire (before lunch.  I've heard that lots of people try to wait until Anzac Day for the first fire but we've had an occasional one for a few weeks now - I do love the comfort of it), put the uggs on and am craving soup.

I'm also catching up with my list making - I've been posting them on IG but not getting around to putting them on here.

So here are my favourite things to bake (keep in mind I am no baker), my style icons (I struggled with this one but it seem Quentin is up there for lots of us according to the IG comments) and what I find relaxing.

 

Who are your style icons?
Are you relaxing or baking today?

I'm joining the #52lists project here.

♥

~ cosy thoughts on a rainy Thursday ~

This week's list was all about being cosy.
Was it really only yesterday that it felt so remote as our indian summer was still lingering outside?
Today it's chilly, the rain is teeming down outside.
My baby is off on his first ever school excursion and I couldn't go because I'm working today.
So I'm slightly sad and worrying about slippery roads.

 

I'm sipping green tea with mint and I've wrapped a woolly scarf around my neck.

I forgot to put both these things on my list.
I'll definitely light a fire later if it stays like this.


I'm making lovely lists every week (and learning more about myself!) with Pip  and her #52lists project. 

What makes you feel cosy?
 ♥

~ what's on my (breakfast) table

{on our kitchen table this week - smelling divine}

I'm generally a bit boring when it comes to breakfast time.
Muesli (I'm a Carman's convert - the gluten free one even though I don't need it to be) with plain Greek yoghurt and some fruit when it's warmer.
Porridge with brown sugar and maybe some stewed fruit in the colder months.

The kids are only allowed weetbix or porridge on school days (saves so many fights and so much angsty standing in front of the cupboard thinking)...then we let them have free rein on the weekends with whatever they can find/convince someone to cook.

I do love going out for breakfast though.
Breakfast always tastes better if someone else makes it.
We used to go out every weekend (in those long ago no kids/portable kids days) but now (soccer weekends, big kids with big appetites) its much more of a random treat.

Here is my list about good things for breakfast as part of the weekly #52lists project.

The very cute fridge magnets are origami arrows made following a quick and easy tutorial I found here.  I even found some magnetic sticky tape to put on the back of them - such cool stuff!

What are you having for breakfast tomorrow?
Are you a creature of habit like me?

♥

~ words, words, words ~

I've been thinking about lists a lot more this year than I ever have.
(List is not one of my favourite words... or even close)
I can barely imagine compiling 52 lists about me... but a list of favourite words is one that I kept thinking would be easy to do as I regularly write down fabulous words anyway (weird, I know).

Do you have favourite words?
Do you see them written in certain ways that just makes sense?
Are you list making with us? 

♥

~ the list about favourite flowers ~

This was almost as hard as choosing favourite books or (gasp!) children.
They're in no particular order
And already I'm regretting the absence of magnolia.
What's your favourite flower?

You can join up here  - its not too late to play along


 ♥

~ more lists ~

I still haven't written a shopping list but here are the two most recent lists from my #52lists project.

list 4 - favourite smells/scents

list 5 - favourite snack foods

I'm really enjoying this project.  I'm learning more about me as I sit and think then write it down.  
I don't give myself very long so its really the first things that pop into my head.  
Then I have a few "lightbulb" moments when I read other people's lists and realise I maybe should have added something else but really, they are what they are.  
A snapshot of me.  In a list.  Which is not really me at all.

What's your favourite snack?

♥

~ list making ~

I am not normally a list girl.
I don't do shopping lists, lists of jobs or to-do lists.

Part of it is, I like to think that I've still got a good memory. 
{I definitely used to have a good memory - I knew all my friends phone numbers (before mobiles!) and when I was an intern I used to know all the patients record numbers from memory to write on their pathology forms.  I can't quite believe it now}.
I see the supermarket as a challenge... I always come home with stuff we didn't need (or think we needed) and I only sometimes forget things.
My to-do stuff is in my head  - its my belief that the jobs I don't get around to (or forget) weren't that important anyway!

My mother, on the other hand, is a champion list maker - lists for every situation, every task, every family member.   As a child I felt like we never got to the end of all that there was to be done.  Always something hanging over our heads. Everyone else felt organised and in control - I felt as though I could never rest easy while there was still stuff to be done.

Recently I stumbled across the  #52 lists project run by the fabulous Pip.  Every week she is giving a prompt for a list and sharing them on her blog and on instagram.
These lists are quirky and interesting.  There's no pressure to complete them.  My kind of lists.

Here are my first three:

List #1 - suburbs I've lived in

List #2 - jobs I've had

 

List #3 - favourite childhood tv shows

I'm still kicking myself that I forgot The Wombles, Bewitched and Round the Twist on my 3rd list.

Are you a list-maker?
What were your favourite shows when you were a kid?
Would you like to play along? (join up here)


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