Dear Blog,

Dear Blog,

How are you? I am fine! I am really, really busy these days, in ways I never could have imagined last year!

As you know, I am the proud owner of a popular boutique in the downtown shopping district of my little city . Our first day we sold about $1,500 worth of clothes and have been busy ever since.

I have a business partner, a lovely young lady from our fair city, who really has a knack of finding really great clothes, and putting it together well. She does our window displays, the buying (with me) and Lordy, she is also just as good a salesperson as I am, which is rare! So few people know how to hustle these days. This young lady works during the day and I come by in the evenings, and I am there all weekend. Yes, we are open Saturday and Sunday too. The weekends are terribly busy! She is in her twenties and single, but she has seen a lot in her life. What is also important is that she wants what I want too - a boutique with reasonably priced, pretty and practical clothes in a wide range of sizes. We also both hope to open another shop, in another town in the next few years, so we do have a common vision.

I am the one doing the paperwork, and the organiziation, and it's difficult to find time to take care of my personal life, but I manage.

My DH, my DDH, is the on call Daddy all weekend, and he does about 90% of the laundry. Which is why my clothes are kind of linty these days, but that's okay.

I have a few plans to give me more time with my guys, apart from the hours after school and before the naps, which they usually take (blessedly!) from 3ish to 5ish every day. I can't afford to hire a housekeeper again, so I guess I have clean the bathroom instead of sleep, and clean the kitchen whilst the family eats. I need to learn how to play with/hang out with the fellas and let the rest of the house go to Hell, but us obessive compulsives have a hard time with that.

I will also really try to continue with the spinning classes and Pilates at my gym. The guys are only in school for three hours a day, so I will really have push to get the house cleaning and the shopping and the gym in in that time. The shop opens at 10 am, and I would need to leave by 11:30, so there's not much point in my opening, just to leave again. Besides, I really do need to take care of my children/husband/laundry/cooking/shopping/house/physical being, as well as mental self.

Speaking of mental selves, I have forgotten abut my appointment with my Tell-Me Therapist about three times so far. Which is terrible. I need to remain mentally fit in order to keep it all together . I think it's simply shocking I forgot about my appointment - how careless could I be?! My only excuse is that the times keep changing, and day too, so it's not a regular habit yet. I would like to go back to Saturday mornings, as difficult as it was to get up early on a Saturday, because then it doesn't force to me sacrifice a gym day. Dr. Tell-Me would like to meet at 10:00 on Thursdays, which would be perfectly possible. I could do what I have done so many times already, which is sit in the car and do my phone calls. But I'd rather be spinning. (Sounds like a bumper sticker...)

At any rate, I still have issues to work out, demons to battle and Thing to Get Done. The major difference now is that, unlike my plump little body, the boutique is really showing results, and is definately going to be what I want it to be. It's a hell of a lot healthier for me to focus a big part of my boundless energy, endless patience, reasonable intelligence and collection of neuroses on improving my business, rather than focusing it all on my plump thighs. I can overlook a juggle with enough distraction. Taking care of my three year olds, my house, my cat (which was run over by a car - my DH's car!!! That's another story) my health, my mental fitness and a soon to be very successful business is enough distraction for me!

Most of the time.

Bye for now, and come and see me sometime.

XXOO

The MOT