Two things happened this week that made me reflect on who I am. Rebecca and I were talking and I quoted a phrase from one of Abby's little kid show songs. She commented that this was the soundtrack to my life. Then for visiting teaching this month we are supposed to get some basic information about our sisters, including their hobbies. My visiting teacher shared with me what she wrote down for me. Admittedly she knows me rather well. The list was dismal. There were so many things I wanted to add to that list but they are more dreams than hobbies. So I decided to blog about what my future hobbies will be.
#1 Adventure racing http://www.usara.com/
#2 Marathoner/Triathalon
#3 Dress making
#4 Avid reader (right now I restrict myself to only a few books a year because I severely neglect my family while reading)
#5 Writer. I really enjoy writing. I have done a few genres of writing in college. Weirdly I enjoy writing research papers and essays. I realize that these are opposites but I love the challenges that each one presents.
#6 Gardener. I want to learn how to grow food mostly.
#7 I also want to be actively involved in two kinds of charity. One that I can do locally and one that I travel with.
Anyway right now my hobbies include feeding my husband and children, cleaning up after my husband and children, nursing my husband and children and "working out" and making the occasional quilt/blanket.
4 comments:
I know how to grow food, I would be more than willing to help you. I think this winter, I will start to build a garden, somewhere the dogs cannot get into and destroy.
Dream on, baby, that dog can go anywhere he puts his mind to. You plant cantalope and his mind will BE THERE!
Biffy, you are doing exactly what you should be right now. You are doing exactly what I wish I could be doing. HA! Wouldn't we like to trade places for a few days! Really, though, I find it odd that as much as I wish I could stay home, when it comes down to it I have ultimately chosen my path. Nobody MADE me go to work, I chose it, granted the alternative wasn't pretty, but you get the idea.
The early Latter-Day Saint women felt that there had to be more to life, too. Then they organized the Relief Society and invented caseroles.
Biffy, you have one hobby that you do--quilt blocks. Not much, but it counts!
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