things are moving slowly around here. mama is sooooo tired after a week of 'good' sleep. strange but true. my body had accustomed itself to the two, one and half or maybe three on a good night, hour blocks of sleep. throw in a week of four hour blocks of shuteye then revert, and my body knows what it is missing. so we're taking things as they come, letting go and enjoying some slowness in our days. the heat has begun, adding a haze to the slowness. yesterday we big girls sat and knitted and chatted and knitted some more. me with milk glass blue, her with stripes. she announced that wearing something knitted was really just like walking around in balls of wool tied in knots. love. we ambled in the bush as the sun was sinking, collecting treasures, then i bathed the girls outdoors in the shell pool. there are vases of flowers here and there, dropping their petals and a sewing table covered in stuff...books on how to help your babe sleep, a maggie rabbit kit yet to be started for solstice, ballet slippers in need of ribbons for next week's concert, a cold mug of dandelion, paperwork for my upcoming homeschool inspection, templates for christmas decorations...but it's all good stuff. things that need doing or are half done. things that i know will get finished and things that i'm ok with not finishing. they're all just part of our days. the second installment of the art of mothering project has hit a bump but it's still there, i'm working away on it slowly, of course.
