June | hosting your summer
With summer joining most of us by now, especially if you’ve got school-aged kiddos at home, I’m inviting you to a practice of “hosting your summer.” This concept is all about welcoming your summer months for what they are. For some, it looks a lot like the rest of the year, for others it might mean you’re entertaining little minds and hearts from a big school break.
As we enter summer, I like to reset the perspective around a slower pace, more play, and different routines. Let’s expand.
SLOWER PACES
For me, during the school year, it’s hard to fit all the activities in a weekend. There are events and baseball and your cousin’s wedding shower. There’s the company party and the birthday. During the summer months, I like to find happiness and joy in simply being able to stay up a little later with my little ones on a Tuesday and bake since it’s not a school night. What might have been a homework session turns into an easy-dinner, bake cookies riiiight before bed kind of evening. Maybe it’s a movie night or a slower paced morning. Whatever that is for you, I hope there’s space in your summer to welcome a slower pace.
MORE PLAY
Find places and spaces in both your home and your day to celebrate and play. This might mean that you rearrange furniture for the summer months. When the kids were home from school during those younger years, I dedicated a kitchen cabinet to house their favorite snacks. I stocked a bin full of arts and crafts projects they could pull out on their own. Building independence and giving me some easy entertainment - win win.
DIFFERENT ROUTINES
If your summer months look similar to the rest of the year, I encourage you to find ways and new routines to highlight the fact that a new season is among us, for nothing more than symbolic reasons. Maybe you wake up early to have morning coffee before the sun comes up as a symbol of a new beginning of something …even a new morning yoga routine! For me, my little ones are home more often, so I find ways to incorporate them into my work day. Sometimes, that just means I move my computer into the house from the studio space, or I work from my laptop from my son’s bedroom so we can hang or package samples with my daughter as the head of shipping label assembly. Adjusting the routine for the season is a way to welcome it in and breathe its air.
And whatever that looks like for you, I hope you discover a rhythm and way to host the new season in your home.
xx,
H
