🌼 Everything is an experiment

Hello, apple cider Mamas,

This week is a shorty, because I spent all my juice on The 2023 Local Pumpkin Patch Guide. It’s also kinda short because this seems to be the another quiet week before the storm of fall and holiday festival season.

I wonder if I did the right thing, spending so much time on a freakin’ guide to pumpkin patches of all things but I realize this question is actually just needless worrying and I return to one of my favorite mantras: everything is an experiment.

If everything is just an experiment, the results don’t mean anything personal about me. I’m simply collecting data.

If everything is an experiment, I can look at the results of my actions with clear eyes. I don’t have to make a judgment about the results.

If everything is an experiment, I can try new things with ease. I can always change my approach.

If everything is an experiment, I can be in a state of neutral observation. I notice the patterns that emerge, and stay—or alter—my course to my benefit.

This newsletter? An experiment.
My parenting? Daily experiments.
Household management? Weekly experiments.
Getting my toddler to try new foods? Extremely experimental.

What is working for you and what isn’t? What variables can you adjust to make life simpler, easier, richer? What would it be like if it wasn’t so serious, and instead, was just an experiment?

With a labcoat, an eye twitch, and a maniacal giggle,

Elise 👩🏻‍🔬 🎃

What’s Happening in Bastrop County this week

For Mama:

🎨 Paint-A-Pint night with the crafty queen Claire Turner of Summit Collective at Smithville Brewing Company. $35.

For the family:

🎈Balloon Hockey is happening on Teen Thursdays at the Bastrop Public Library. Thursday 4:45-6:15.

🎥 Film Alley is poppin’ off with a Homeschoolers’ Day Out on Thursday 11-4 and a Paw Patrol Party on Saturday 12-6.

🔪 Lost Pines Knife Show is family-friendly and will live knife forging demonstrations, knife throwing, live music and a ton of artisan knives to look at. Saturday 9-5 and Sunday 9-4. $12 for adults, $5 for kids, free for kids under 5.

🎃 Early Patchin: The Patch at Community Gardens starts this weekend. And so does the patch at Mama Mary’s Farm. See the whole dang 2023 Pumpkin Patch Guide here.

🎨 Art Walk all over downtown Bastrop at the Bye Bye Summer Centex Art Walk. Live sketching will be happening too! So cool. Saturday 10am - 7pm. Free.

🏫 For kids interested in Texas history, 75th Anniversary of Delgado vs Bastrop ISD event, will discuss the case that outlawed segregation of Latinos from schools. Includes a reenactment of the case, panels and a talk from Senator Gonzalo Barrientos. Saturday 10am - 2pm at Bastrop ISD Center for Performing Arts. Free.

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