slowing down ~

It's time to be working towards a slower rythym in our home, though we have started lessons I don't feel we are fully in the stay at home rythym yet. I know deep inside me it's time to slow way down to start fully directing our focus on home. I am making more of an effort to go to town only once a week, to say no to the outside world, to be intentional with my children. Rythyms, to me are a way of life, not a rigid schedule but a flow to ones day. 

I still have canning to do ~ tomatoes, jelly, potatoes, and applesauce mainly focussing on jelly and applesauce. We have farmers market through the end of October, throwing in a couple festivals we are going to try this year. I'm hoping the festivals will be worth while and provide some extra income for the winter, our hardest time of year. 

The children have been writing songs off and on, thought I would share a couple. They are mostly tid bits they say, not really completing them due to running out of thoughts. Maybe one will turn out to be an actual song writer, maybe not. One of the bigs has taught himself to play guitar and is really quite good, being creative at coming up with his own tunes. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the middle of love other times an exciting Mexican dance!

Hope you're enjoying your September!
JM