Do you have any little rituals/things you do just for you, that you really enjoy?

[lucysmam]

I meant to ask this yesterday, but then got sidetracked by baking stollen, making pastry, and making cranberry sauce for Christmas 😋

My favourite ritual of the week is my weekend morning silent cuppa. I like to sit in my spot, in the kitchen, with the first cuppa of the day & just chill for an hour in silence. Sometimes I'll even make a second cup, or a cup of coffee. It's bliss, just being while everyone here's sleeping & the outside world is just starting to get going 😊

I like to watch the world go by through the windows (at least, what I can see of the world!). This weekend's highlight was the robin flitting from branch to branch in the huge trees at the bottom of my garden.

What about you?

That sounds lovely op! I need a ritual! Does meditation count (quite boring I guess).
I sometimes make myself an amazing oefs (sp?) Florentine...

Do you have kids & if so What time do you get up to have an hour in peace op?!

Mine is on a Sunday evening , some nice food usually cheese and crackers a glass of wine and audible for a hour or two .

@Ohmygoshposh I do! Dd1 is almost 16, and dd2 almost 13. I tend to be up around 7:30 & they surface any time from 9am onwards (often onwards these days 🤣) but I like to get up & get on once I've had my cuppa in my spot 🤷‍♀️

Yes, I have tons.
My morning ritual is the longest and it happens every day of the week. I wake early so I can fit it all in!
A coffee which I take back to bed- a hot shower with essential oils, a small facial, exfolation and sometimes a mask, serum etc.
I light a candle as I get dressed, have a scented candle burning.
I then do some meditation, then a Tarot or Oracle card daily reading.
Five days a week I then go to a yoga class- if I don't have a class then I will practice at home.
And that's just my morning.
Throughout the day I have lots of ways to lift and calm myself.

Most evenings I choose which pen and ink I'm going to use, sit at the end of the table, open my fancy notebook and write a bit of a diary. It gets any tangled thoughts and all my feelings out on paper and I then don't have to think about them.

Every morning, while eating breakfast, I do Wordle, Quordle and PlusWord.

These are all lovely.

Mine isn’t very exciting but I love to unwind with a coffee and a YouTube vlog (e.g someone cleaning and decluttering their home)

bliss

Every morning ? I can go 2 days without brushing my hair. I need your life.

Mine is very similar to yours OP!

@speakout
I salute you - that’s impressive!
Mine is morning as well - half hour with a cup of tea in silence on the sofa - heaven! I do a little meditation whilst wearing my LED mask. Then I make a cappuccino and take it up to the bathroom - hot shower, facial massage, skincare and body oil.

Then a 15 minute weights workout. All before the kids get up at 6.30am. It’s my sanity.

Yes every morning, in fact sometimes more. I enjoy a long morning bath if it is very cold, I have affirmations, apply make up, wash and style my hair.
I enjoy treating myself well.

This is so incredible. I love that you do all this.

On Sundays I go round and orund the whole house rehoming everything before the week starts. I feel all wrong all week if I miss it.

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst snap, me too! Although today I had an early meeting and didn't have time for Quordle and felt slightly out of sorts for the rest of the day.

Can you recommend any ? I always feel fired up when watching someone blitz. Sounds wrong I know.

I need my cup of tea in peace in the morning. 15 minutes. Dog curled up next to me. Wakes me up and I hate it if DH gets up early!!

I get myself and ds 8 up at 7.30,make his breakfast then I HAVE to have 20 mins with a coffee and online papers.
I'd stamp my foot like a petulant toddler if I was prevented from it.

Youre all inspiring me to get back into a routine. I used to be so good. My current routine is get up and work 🤣

At the weekend I like to go for a long run in the cold then come back and have a coffee in a hot bath.

I also like to get the log burner going and do yoga in front of the fire. It was so cold today that I just sat there in Childs pose for about 15 minutes next to the toasty fire.

Face yoga
I try and do it every day but doesn't always happen
Makes me feel good

Random but I like to watch fan videos on you tube of some of my favourite tv programmes/period dramas. Like a little hour of escapism with a hot cup of tea.

I also often like taken the long country road route places instead of the main road, so I can enjoy the scenic routes.

Every morning I have a hot cup of coffee in bed, open the curtains to look out over the fields, all before my little one wakes up.

My morning ritual is a 30minute walk with my dogs, but reading all of these makes me want to get up 30mins earlier to actually sit and enjoy my cup of tea with them before heading out

A very mong dog Walk is mine... and then binging the very worst of reality tv on my phone and airpods whilst i'm in the kitchen making dinner for everyone!