Since I've taken a self-imposed Facebook ban the last few days, I've had time to do so many more important and interesting things. I've gone through some more photos from our summer vacation and found this cute picture of the kids. It may look like C is about to strangle N but he was actually about to give her a hug. She always make that face when she is about to be hugged or give a hug and C is just being himself, a funny little clown. I swear one day he will win the "class clown" title.
Another photo is of N getting ready to jump off the diving board at the pool near Nana's house. They have a massive pool at the Golf Club there and they have the diving board/deep end cordoned off from the main pool. Noemie just casually walked over, up onto the board and then jumped into the 13ft deep end. No fear, just jumped right off. Of course my shutter jammed at the precise moment she was in mid air. It was really amusing though as all the other kids on the other side of the cord stopped and watched it all happening. Shouts of "look at that little girl, she's going to jump off the board!" followed by oohs and aaahs once she jumped. Then a handful of kids deciding it was their turn, with most of them getting back down off the board without jumping in. I remember a photo of myself at perhaps this age, maybe a year or two younger, doing the exact same thing. I was and am like a fish in the water so N has clearly taken after me. She loves the pool, loves swimming and has very little fear.
Back to my self imposed Facebook ban. It's not that I have anything against FB. It's that I was wasting so much time playing meaningless games on there. It's one thing to catch up with friends and look at their photos but I was spending hours playing some stupid game. Stuff wasn't getting done around the house and I wasn't getting stuff done on my hobbies which matter to me. It's only been 2 days but it's amazing how much I've been getting done each day. I've cancelled all my plans for this week so I can focus on doing things I want to do and it has been awesome. It's making me realize I make far too many plans with people and have next to no time to get stuff done for me. And for the house. So I've decided I'm going to make very limited social plans over the next few weeks, perhaps months, as I'm actually enjoying being on my own. It reminds me of before I had kids and had already quit working. I had days to myself to do whatever I wanted. K was always working and traveling and sometimes I wouldn't go out for a week or more at a time and I wouldn't speak to anyone other than K when he was home. I know K found this weird and many people perhaps might as well. As much as I like most people and enjoy myself when I am around them, I am also perfectly happy being alone. With both kids back at school now I'm loving the 5 hours a day I have all to myself :).