Damn That's Sweet

I can feel Autumn soaking into my bones, and I love it. Oooo! And I just looked out my window and its sprinkling! Yippee!!!

Starting last weekend our family has entered into a season of rest. Its late in coming but couldn't be helped. Micah is having a hard time with school. Silas has been asking to go to sleep at 7:30pm often enough. We just need to mellow. So, momma is done going away on trips for a while, daddy is done spending every other weekend helping other people for a while, we put the veggie garden to bed (mostly... I am attempting a few greens), we are finishing soccer (only 2 more games), we put the toys outside away for the winter and we are hunkering down. Husband and I are going to bed as early as 8:30 on some nights. Not because our days are over full right now, but because they were over full for all of September and October!

Now we are just allowing ourselves, body and soul, to recover.

Introspective moment: It just occurred to me that we have taken a 2 month sabbath around this time of year for the last 4 years. In the past its been just me and Shaun, but this year it includes the boys. It started with taking time off from volunteering for a while each year. Of course, God moves us around in life and we are in a very different place than we were when we first took a sabbath in our yearly cycle, but we still need this time. I think there is something intuitive about resting at the same time the earth around us in going into a season of rest. It takes an insane amount of energy to grow and flourish and serve and play.