This week is October! Late summer/early fall was pretty action packed with a month or two of food preservation packed into two weekends. Now it’s hard to decide what to prioritize and plan. It’s kind of like after you finish a really good or intense book/series and you can’t decide what to read next.
Some of the obvious choices are catching up on cleaning and picking up and regular-everyday-chores that got behind. Some are just taking a break to get things away from the edge-of-the-breaking-point physically. And some are making sure to do some of the fun things. October has pumpkin hikes and apple orchards and other good things. For us it will probably also have the taking the kids to do their Christmas shopping and it will have our Great Pumpkin scavenger hunt in the yard. (The Great Pumpkin needs to decide on small pumpkins or luminaries to mark the prizes this year…) Last year it snowed, this year we’ll probably all be in shorts at the rate the weather is currently going.
So for now it’s watching the sunrise and just thinking about what we want to do and when and how. The window up here faces south and so the sun comes up over the neighbor’s trees and slowly paints the tops of ours bright, bright gold on a good morning. It’s beautiful to watch. And it’s a good reminder that sometimes just being is fine too.
As long as the key stuff still gets done around the edges and before and after too. 🙂
So today, probably regular laundry and scrubbing and doing the kitchen. Hopefully fun bonus things like maybe chocolate chip cookies or putting up those shelves in the basement.
The kids get Sunday Morning Cartoons (a mix we make with a weekly line up because that’s a much better way to interact with media). This also means bagels and orange juice for breakfast, which is also something they love. And Sunday night is also Popcorn & Choose-Your-Own-Dinner (as long as it’s simple), which is nice for their parents and fun for them. Sometimes small traditions are as important as big traditions.
