The Boni Bunch: Lazy Days

Monday, January 2, 2017

Lazy Days

Day one of my "300 Writing Prompts" book:

What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day?

The best way to be lazy is to "just be," but I have trouble with this concept.

You see, for as long as I have known my husband, he has told me that I need to learn how to BE. I don’t enjoy just sitting around while doing nothing. I always feel like I SHOULD be doing something. It doesn’t even have to be something productive like cleaning my house… I just prefer to go, go, and then go some more.

So, I have been trying this concept of “BE-ing,” and while it is difficult …

Sometimes I find myself twitching a little and gnawing off my fingernails …

It is starting to be a little bit more enjoyable!!

So what do I do? Well, if I know that the day ahead of me will be a lazy one, I start out by telling my kiddos that I don’t want to be awake until at least 9 a.m.!! Fortunately, they are old enough nowadays that I can say that, and it will typically happen that they will self-entertain until about 9:01!!

I will gradually arise, but not very quickly. For example, I may sit up in bed until around 9:30 or so before I will even consider speaking to another soul. Then, by around 9:45 or 10, I will finally emerge from my sleeping quarters ready to sort-of face the world!

Oh, but wait, this is a LAZY day…. I don’t have to face the world!

It’s a cereal day for breakfast and a DIY for lunch (for example, kids make their own sandwiches or spaghetti O’s or ramen).

So, my preferred lazy day would consist of toe socks- now that I write this I realize I need some more toe socks… a girl can never have too many toe socks!

(Wow, that’s the most I’ve said the phrase “toe socks” in one paragraph in my life! Toe socks; toe socks; toe socks)

Secondly, my preferred lazy day includes my all-time favorite coloring tools:

And my favorite coloring book:

I love to brainlessly color. I love how detailed the pictures look when they are completed. I also love to crochet- I can do that pretty brainlessly as well!!

The only problem with these things is that I am fairly certain that coloring and crocheting are not “just be-ing” activities...

Oh well… those are ways that I love spending MY lazy days!! They’re mine, right? So I can do whatever I want when I’m just be-ing... So THERE!!!

How do you prefer to spend your lazy day?

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Dr. Jill E. SteeleyJanuary 3, 2017 at 1:51 PM
This is a lesson we all should learn - just be!
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Monday, January 2, 2017

Lazy Days

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