Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 184

Today's Daily 5:

1. Errands with my baby brother, before going back to working on their house
2. chatting with my middle brother, when he joined us for an afternoon of work
3. Painting my first ever ceiling (a tiny closet one, but still, I felt accomplished!)
4. Coming home and taking a long hot bath and washing out my hair after a dusty, dirty day of work
5. angel food cake with vanilla ice cream, fresh blueberries, and fresh strawberries

Reading Break Monday

It's the Monday of reading break.  A holiday Monday here in Alberta - Family Day.

I'm spending it much as I've spent the majority of the last two days - doing demolition, clean-up, prep work and painting at the house my brother and sister-in-law bought.  There's a bunch of work to be done there before they can move in in about six weeks, and so today, while a bunch of family and friends are available, we're tackling as much as we can get underway.  Mostly that's going to look like painting and cleaning, and maybe starting to lay just a bit of laminate flooring.

The rest of this reading break is shaping up in similar ways.  Working at their house.  Doing homework.  Spending time with friends that I don't get to see as much as I would like.  Working ahead on some school projects.  Resting.

I have some awesome posts planned for the next week or so.  Some stuff I've been sitting with for a while now, and want to share here.  But they'll have to wait for a day when I'm not painting walls.  It's a different kind of creativity, this physical work - this chance to help some people I love.  But it's a good kind.  And so that's what I'm doing on Family Day, Reading Break Monday.