Fall without falling

Things are so much better here. Sleep may not cure all ills, but it does provide a dearly needed buffer between rat brain and human brain. Seamus is still throwing down but less frequently. I found my copy of Raising Your Spirited Child and looked through my scribbled check marks on the temperament assement bits and remembered that yes, Seamus goes to eleven. It’s in a book! Written by someone who writes books*. But damn if that book didn’t help before, so hey, let’s crack it again and see what I forgot.

The repairs on the new house are progressing slowly, so we’ll be in by November 1st, something that leaves me both relieved to have more packing time and furiously attempting to figure out how to swing his birthday party and Halloween. He has requested a robot costume “with a robot head too, please mom”, so I have some ideas spinning in my head. I’ll need access to my glue gun and a lot of acrylic paint. And bike boxes. No clue about a birthday party. We went to a bunch this year, so I’m trying to figure out the best way to celebrate our boy.

My garden got trashed while I was away, so I have one last tomato harvest out of it before pulling everything up. I plan to move the blueberry bushes to the new place and keep them in their pots for the winter, but almost everything else will get composted. We’ll be getting settled in and trying to figure out how to make the house best work for us through the winter and spring, so I do not plan to change (remove) the current plantings until spring. I have a lot of stuff I’d like to finish for Seamus, baby gifts for soon-to-be toddlers I haven’t started yet, and a possible babe of my own to craft for, so I plan to spend the winter sewing, stenciling, and prepping my pantry for easy meal-making. I have no idea about the quirks awaiting me with the 60 year old electric range and oven, so I’m planning a lot of mains for the crockpot, and crossing my fingers that I can steam and saute things on at least one burner.

We have a lot of excursions planned to take advantage of the weather. We went to the Lawrence Hall of Science yesterday and I rolled down the window as we drove through the hills. The air was lightly warm, and smelled of bay leaves and dry grass. I love this time of year.