The value of a cucumber

To my dearest mommy friends, let me tell you about the value of having a cucumber in the veggie drawer in the fridge!

I woke up this morning with serious bags under my eyes and consulted Google (as one does, for everything from itches to how to stop yelling at your kids, and a few other unmentionable things which I must not share or that would be oversharing). And I learnt that I must cut out salt, alcohol, take care of allergies, remove my make up, try a Neti pot (what on earth is a Neti pot??) and stop drinking my dehydrating coffee. Nix on that one!

Oh, and I must start exercising. Which I do try to do. Bend, peg the clothes. Fetch a small child from school and circle the school 3 times looking for said small child. Push a heavily laden shopping trolley around PnP 3-4 times to find whatever is on sale that we need, and refuse the services of the car guard to load and go. Load the dishwasher. Travel around the house a million times a day to relocate items... I'm perhaps exaggerating and definitely digressing.

Cucumber! Not in the first 8 things Google listed, but an old and tried remedy. Remarkably cooling. Definite visible results. And when you are done, a healthy snack. Try it, all you moms out there. And grandparents (yes Dad, you too can try cucumber).

Now I am off to find my cup of rooibos tea for the morning in an attempt to rehydrate. Ugh. Yip, it's Tuesday.

Oh, this is meant to be a spiritual blog too. Nearly forgot in the quest for cooling cucumber. By the way, putting a cucumber behind your cat does NOT work in our house (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67WmZE4A_GI).

Ah, Ecclesiastes. There is a time for everything. Today's aha moment is "there is a time to embrace and a time to refrain". So true with small people. And big ones too.

And with today being the secret ballot of (no)confidence in Mr JZ, there's also definitely a time to pray for our country and our drought. No rain, no cucumbers.