Steam and stir

Making beetroot, orange and chilli chutney with some beetroots from my parents' garden. It took nearly 2 hrs of grating and chopping to have all the ingredients ready. It's amazing how perspective changes that experience. Earlier in the week I would have been chafing at the fact that it's so much time taken out of my day, certainly longer than planned for, and meaning I can't achieve other things. But today I have reminded myself of a very important thing: I will *never* fit in everything I want to. Even if I change my activities and rearrange this, that and the other, there will still be things I intended to do that I don't get done. That being the case, what needs to change is my expectations. It's far more important to set myself one job and take the time to do it well than to hurry through 15 jobs thinking only about what I need to do next. 

So instead of stressing about 2 hrs of grating and chopping, I am choosing to have spend a lovely afternoon making something with love.