Slow Summer Sundays
My favorite weekends are the ones where there’s nothing planned, and it’s just the four of us, my husband, our two sons and me, doing whatever we want to do, or, more accurately, not doing what we don’t want to. Adult life is packed with doing that which you don’t want to do, and as I get older I get more impatient with it, as it feels like I’m always trying to slog my way through the mess to get to the good stuff. I don’t want to live that way. So I actively try to push things to the side, or keep the road clear, to get to the good, slow days. Like the one captured in this video I’m sharing.
To start the morning, we took a ride in my father’s old pickup truck. (If you don’t know the story of this pickup, it’s a good one, and I wrote about it here.) Went to breakfast up the road aways to a small breakfast joint that’s only opened on the weekends for a few hours, perched on the side of a country road that’s slightly busy with tractors and pickups passing by the large windows.
When we got home, I made a couple negronis for my husband and I, and we spent some time in the chicken coop, getting to know our new chickens. We made a delicious steak dinner served with roasted vegetables grown by our farmer neighbors (link to the recipe below), and topped it all off with, of course, some ‘smores around the campfire.
These types of days are the very reason we decided to move to rural Pennsylvania. We wanted a life for ourselves and our children where we could stay home, or at least close to home, and enjoy our property in various ways, as well as have access to nature and small towns just a winding, tree-lined road away. I don’t know if it’s older age coming for me—the inner homebody fully emerging into the open—or the fact that air travel is kind of gruelling these days, not to mention expensive, but I don’t so much have the inkling to fly around the world, if ever I really did. I want a home life that’s vibrant, with lots of options for rest and relaxation right outside my door, and that’s what we’re building here, project by project, as time and money allows—a home-centered life we can settle into.
Here’s some slow summer days inspiration….
