A Quiet Sunday...

Sunday was actually a pretty quiet day.

In this life where it feels like we're running nonstop I'm always grateful when I can have a quiet day!

A "quiet day" doesn't necessarily mean that I'm not working, I just means that I don't have to run out and do a bunch of stuff outside the house. A quiet day means there are no errands to be run, I can just focus on what I have here at home.

Mrs. Denmarkguy and I were having a bit of a laugh earlier about the fact that there's no such things as "weekends" anymore. At least not weekends in the traditional sense of the weekend being a time when you're not working and can do other things. Or just chill the eff out and recharge your batteries.

Weekends were different when I was a kid. My dad did not work on the weekends, and my mom didn't work at it outside job, at all. While she did do catering for private events, it was not a job of necessity it was a job of supplementing our lives. And she only worked when she felt inclined to do so.

We actually had free time on the weekends, adults and kids alike. The notion of a "quiet Sunday" was the expected norm rather than a rare exception.

I remember we had actual hobbies that we might spend the entire weekend immersed in. My dad liked to clean and restore old oil paintings, and I would sometimes watch him painstakingly remove hundreds of years of old grime and smoke residue to reveal something beautiful below. It's amazing how filthy old stuff gets over periods of many decades and more... particulate from fireplaces, candles, smoking in the house, cooking and more. Doesn't look like much right now, but piled up over a century it's just plain gross.

Because I wasn't very social," I had quiet hobbies as a kid. Sometimes my friend Thomas would come and spend the weekend. He was born on the same day as I, and we were both quiet kids. I think my mother liked him coming over because we were very "responsible," and she never had to worry about something turning into a ruckus, if she left us alone for a few hours.

I miss those really quiet weekends, so it was nice to have a quiet Sunday... even if what I did most of the time was — at least peripherally — work related.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week ahead!

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