Fall

Fall is here (I guess it has been for awhile) and I have mixed feelings about it. I hate that fall means the days are shorter. I swear, at 7 pm during the summer I still feel like doing hours worth of fun stuff, but at that time now, I'm ready for bed! There were several times last summer when I took Nicholas to the pool at 7:00 for a swim before his bath! I hate that fall means winter is coming and that it will get colder, and I will have to put away my flop flops for a few months. I hate being cold. Though, the winter in North Carolina is not so bad after growing up in Michigan. At least here it is still sunny and we don't have to deal with much snow at all. It is actually quite comical when it does snow...or even if there is talk of the possibility of snow..because everything shuts down. I'm totally serious. You can still see the blades of grass sticking up through a "snowfall" and school will be cancelled, doctors will close their offices, and you can't find bottled water because everyone will have "stocked up" for the big storm. It is hilarous. Why is it that people buy up all of the water they can find? Do they think their pipes will freeze (in NC???) and they could possibly die of dehydration? It is perplexing to me. Anyway, I digress. Fall is here and we have to put away all of our cute summer clothes and sandels, turn on our heat, and watch way too much tv because it gets dark so early. Boo!

This fall, for the first time, I have decided to think of some good things about fall and focus on that instead of focusing on dreading winter. When I thought about it, I realized that I love fall foods. Sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkin bread, stew, chili, cornbread, candy corn, mellowcream pumpkins...yum, yum, yum! I also realized that this is why I am having a hard time losing my baby weight. I keep asking my doctor why the weight isn't just falling off like it did after I had Nicholas...but secretly, I know why. I need to STOP eating!!! The other thing I love about fall is football. I love watching Michigan play (even though they really really stink this year) and I've even gotten into some pro football. This year, I also have the joy of watching Nicholas enjoy the holidays. Tonight is trick-or-treating in our neighborhood and he is so excited. Nicholas is going to be a monkey and Avery is going to be a pea in a pod. The other day, Keith and I put Nicholas in his costume, gave him his pumpkin basket and taught him to say "trick-or-treat" (it comes out more like "truck er tweet"). He's too cute!

So, these are the things I've decided to enjoy about the fall. I think I need to start coming up with a list of things I'll enjoy about winter before too long!