Hello,
How are you?
I hope you’ve had a good week.
We’ve just finished off a magazine – whoop whoop! It’s issue 122 and the theme is stillness and slowing down. It’s been such a pleasure to work on it and I can’t wait to see it all finished and IRL! You can be one of the first to get your hands on a copy by pre-ordering here.
Home education wise we’ve been doing a lot of writing. Iris has been writing letters for friends and making signs that she’s stuck up around the house. We’ve done a couple of road trips; she sits next to me with a massive 250 sheet pad of paper, copying out ‘Commonly Misspelt Words in the English Language’! Like mother, like daughter.
Here’s what we’ve been up to
Planning a Mini Retreat
My partner took the kids away at the weekend so that I could have some space. This was lush. So good to spend time with my own thoughts and not be beholden to anyone. I really recommend it if you can make it happen in any way, shape or form.
I’ve been known to fritter away alone time on admin and cleaning, so I really wanted to make sure I used my time intentionally. I decided to use some books as inspiration. I pulled out The Woman’s Comfort Book by Jennifer Louden (this is a great starting point if you're unsure of how to spend alone time), Sacred Motherhood by Anni Daulter and Niki Dewart (this book is a gorgeous interactive journey through a year of mothering, with ideas and journal prompts), Sattva by Eminé Rushton (wonderful book about Ayurveda in daily life), Sacred Woman by Queen Afua (jam packed book of healing rituals for women) and Wild Feminine by Tami Lynn Kent, about the joy and power of our female bodies. I used ideas from each of these books to put together a plan.
As an aside, having clear, clutter-free bookshelves is even better than I imagined. I felt so uplifted searching through my books - I've held every title in the shelves in the last couple of weeks, and established that I want to keep it. Around 50% of my books went to charity. Now the shelves are like a clearer representation of who I am, rather than holding onto books from long ago.
