We’ve had a very full September. Caroline and I have been well into homeschooling after starting the last week of August. We did a lot of home updating, fall cleaning, and preparing for Caroline’s birthday. She wanted to invite friends over for lunch on her birthday after church so we did that on Sunday. A good time was had by all. But this was a long, busy month. Even a month full of good and desirable busy things is still tiring.
Caroline and I decided after five weeks of school and everything else, we were ready for a reset. We decided to take our floating fall break week this week. Many families hit a wall about six weeks into the homeschooling year. Ours came a bit early (five weeks) given everything else we had going on.
(If you remember this very popular post and the accompanying PDF, you probably already understand what I’m saying: The Real Phases of the Homeschool Year.)
So this is our reset week. We had a couple of errands to do so we did them yesterday. Hopefully we can spend most of the rest of the week decompressing and resetting life for the time between now and Thanksgiving.
Do you ever take a reset week? A week when you focus on getting on top of things? Re-prioritizing life? Resetting your short term and medium term goals?
Or if you can’t take a week, can you take a day? A long weekend?
The cozy life doesn’t happen by accident. It takes deliberate choices made over and over again. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year.
Yes! I am resetting my household after weeks of outside events and demands. So much has piled up that it will take me all this week, at least. This morning I got my living room mostly back to normal, and made some additional improvements in the kitchen.
I noticed while we were on vacation that my in-law’s tiny little cottage where “Granny” raised her large family is not really all that much smaller than where my family lives now. Two fewer bedrooms, one less bathroom, and a trapdoor to a small basement instead of stairs into a larger one. Originally the cottage had only an outhouse; later a bathroom/laundry room was added.