Scenes from yesterday - morning, afternoon, and night.
For the next month (give or take a little) I am going to be stepping away from the writing of this blog. Instead, I will share three photos a day representing morning, afternoon and evening scenes from the previous day in my life. My hope is that a thousand words are shared through these little glimpses.
I'm an extremely slow blogger, I think I've shared that here before. An average post (a few photos and a couple of paragraphs) can take me over an hour to put together, conservatively speaking. Isn't that crazy? I made a deal with myself to take my work at home self a little more seriously this year. To use my time when Emily is at school to it's fullest. Very often I use time during her school day for housekeeping, errands, cooking, things like that... I will do a little 'work' here and there. I find that I mostly use weekend time, and worse, summer time to work and prepare for market days. But I've switched it all around.
I notice that when Emily is home if I am 'working' it's kind of an energy drain for her. She can get that totally bored look on her face and I have mama guilt as big as the moon. It just seems like not the best scenario. However, if I am bustling around the house with apron strings tied, bread rising, bed making, vacuum running, the pulse of the family and home is entirely different. Furthermore, Emily is usually inspired to join in on the homemaking, tidying and dusting right alongside me.
So, when she is at school I am focusing more on my work role, and when she is at home I am focusing more on my mama role. Just a little swap that feels right. I started doing this a few weeks ago and it has been soooo nice.
The Farmer's Market starts in June, which will be here before I know it - life is so speedy that way. This year I have made a quiet little promise to myself to be prepared for that, to actually have an inventory once the season rolls around, such an amazing concept. Inventory can sound like such a dull, uncreative word but it doesn't need to be. I actually feel very inspired lately (which makes it hard to step away from the blog), I figure why not use that energy while it's hot? The winter months are the perfect time to cozy up with my crafty self and feel prepared as the summer rolls in bringing regular market days with it. It will be nice to just take off on a Saturday hike or trip to the beach without feeling like I shouldn't because the market is the next day and I need to prepare more. I bet some of you know that feeling. Last year during the winter we were homeschooling so this sort of work day for me was not in the cards. I'm looking forward to it, to get ahead and give myself some breathing room to chill more during the summer months.
I've stocked myself up pretty nicely with supplies to get started on this - my fabric shelves are organized and full, my notebook has pages of ideas. Now to remain focused and do the work... I know this shift on the blog for the next several weeks will only fuel my inspiration. Slowing down and taking notice of the day to day subtleties in life can be some of the best inspiration out there.
How about one more example of the days to come? 
I've been testing the waters a little... this feels so perfect for me right now.
I do hope you enjoy the ride as well.
