Ramblings and Rattlings

Made this yummy apple pie over the weekend and it is already gone. It combined with homemade vanilla ice cream made for a yummy treat for everyone.

Not too long ago, I shared how I needed to get some organization in my day to day tasks. While, I still have days where I feel totally unorganized, primarily because something has popped up that has thrown me off schedule for the most part, I am doing better. I have found that Chorebuster has helped tremendously in that I have delegated many day to day chores to the kids and it has empowered them as they rush to the chart to see what their tasks for that day are (gotta love that)!! I also schedule things on there for myself, even if they aren’t done on that day, it is a visual reminder for me to get them done.

This week the weather seemingly wants to fully usher in fall even though I am still wondering what happened to summer. I actually have mixed feelings about this in the sense that I am just not ready. I still need to clean up my garden and plant a cover crop. I haven’t pulled out fall decorations and I know I am behind when my hubby mentions that the wreath on the door needs changing. We need to take the umbrellas down on the deck, pull in the cushions for the furniture and just in general prepare for the colder months that signify fall and winter.

In my mind, I still want to go outside without a jacket, I am not completely ready to hunker down by the fire. Honestly, it is more of a restlessness in my spirit. I feel that I am at *that place*….that place where things aren’t settled, that place where you feel you should move in one direction yet that door doesn’t completely seem open, that place where you often want to do something different than what you find yourself doing, that place where you have to just sit still and wait (not something I am known to be very good at it).

So, whether I want to or not, I must embrace this change of season in the meteorological as well as spiritual sense.