Happy Homemaker 2026-01-19

 Good morning

Slow telework week.. luckily they are not yet ready for the in-town 3-day week so we get to continue as is for February... BUT ... boss wants a meeting on Tuesday so I guess we'll get our new instructions then.

Did not have grandkids over this week as Xavier was probably having the 24-hour flu when dh wanted to get them on Thursday.

Saturday was some deep-cleaning and in the afternoon ds, ddil and grandkids came by.  Xavier had a bday party with some friend on our street.  The others went sliding a bit and came back here afterwards.  DS and ddil left at 4:00 to pick up Xavier.  Anne-E stayed for supper but did not want to sleep (wanted her mom), so dh dropped her off before going to a local hockey game.

Sunday was a hockey game to see Xavier in the morning - he scored his first 2 goals!  Afternoon was some housechores and just lazying about.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom 

Weather this week

Mon

-7°

-13°

Tue

-13°

-18°

Wed

-9°

-17°

Thu

-4°

-16°

Fri

-13°

-22

Looking around the house

Decorated for Valentine's day (with Anne-E's help she just loved playing and placing the small foam hearts everywhere).

Thinking and pondering

Work always changing.

Retirement.

Stuff... so much stuff around the house ... (or so it seems to me)

TV this week

• Dernière seconde (saison 1)
• Les petits tannants
• TLMEP
• Dumas
• Indéfendable
• Antigang
• Happy Face
• L'oeil du cyclone
• Emprises
• Les armes
• Stat
• Alertes
• Mea Culpa
• Indomptables
• Nuls en chef
• L'amour est dans le pré
• La nuit devant nous
• Ça finit bien la semaine
• En direct de l'univers
• La Voix
• Decided to drop l'Aréna, Passez au Salon et Marco Lachance

Interesting blog I saw this week

Decluttering

Some things I had not thought about, not agreeing with it all though

On my reading pile

Ici et maintenant by Liane Moriarty - already interesting after first few pages

On my to-do list

Over the weekend 

• Laundry 
• Vac main floor
• Wash main bathroom
• Dust kitchenette and wash kitchen apparels
• Deep spring clean my bedroom closet
• Deep spring clean my craft closet (in office)
• Decorate for Valentine's day

Monday

• Post here - DONE
• 10:00 Tai-chi Class - DONE
• Prep for in-town work on Tuesday - DONE
• Fold towels - DONE
• Load and empty dishwasher - DONE
• Start a new craft? knit? read? 
• don't feel like doing more deep-cleaning this week
• ...

Decluttering

• 1 belt
• 5 sweaters
• 4 men shirts
• 2 men t-shirts
• 1 sleeveless fluffy vest
• 1 faux-leather coat
• 1 frame
• 1 felt pocketbook
• 1 toy necklace
• 1 bottle of bath salts

Simple pleasure

Hot bubble bath with fairy lights and my book :)

Upcoming this week

Monday - Tai-Chi

Tuesday - in-town work

Thursday - Esthetician appointment (trying to get that dark spot taken care of.. not sure if it'll work, it has faded a little but not enough from last try)

From the camera

Internet picture of the week