Wednesday Hodgepodge - 21/2/18

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1. Where do you go when you need some inspiration?
I think that’s would depend on what I needed inspiration for.  Dinner – I’d pull out a cookery book, some things I’d go online for.  The home I’d check out the pile of Ideal Home magazines I have here.  Other things I might just go for a walk to clear my head and think.
2. What's under your bed?
Umm that could be an embarrassing question.  Dust?  Actually I have some storage boxes under my bed that I need to sort out when I get back to decluttering.  And there’s definitely dust!
3. Thursday, February 22nd is National Chili Day, National Margarita Day, and National Cook a Sweet Potato Day. Of the three which would you most like to celebrate? Is that likely?

Maybe a Sweet Potato but probably not likely.
4. What are you 'snowed under' with right now?
Stuff!  Going back to #2 – there is a lot of stuff in my house right now that shouldn’t be there – including my son and his wife.  Don’t take that the wrong way.  We have loved having them with us and will miss them when they’re gone but the purchase of their own flat seems to be taking forever – and it’s not their fault or something they have much control over.  But in the meantime they are acquiring things that will go to the flat.  Plus now they are also starting to gather things for the coming baby.  I want to sort out my own stuff but I can’t realistically do that until they move out.  I’m just hoping it’s before the baby arrives!
5. Tell us three to five things that make you feel balanced?
Oh that’s deep.  The family being in harmony, no bad feelings or disputes going on.  Give me that (which thankfully is usually the case) and I can usually cope with most things although #4 is beginning to drive me crazy.  Having a plan helps too.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

I can definitely be an up and down person and my glass is often half empty rather than half full but making a plan definitely works for me.  Doing a Hodgepodge post is on my weekly plan and today it’s on the daily list so this is a big tick for me!  Thanks Joyce for sticking with this every week.  Sometimes the questions are more challenging than others but I do love a challenge!