To everything..turn turn turn. There is a season....turn turn turn. Tis the season for FALL!!!!!!!!!!
This is my favorite season of the year because it leads up to Christmas. And Christmas isn't just the holiday...it's a whole conglomerate of awesomeness: smells, taste, events, people, music, atmosphere. I adore it.
This summer has been unusually cool here in Iowa. Nice, but cool. Our hottest days were in June and only lasted about three days. So I guess it was somewhat meant to be that my fall arrives sooner than normal. This is ideal for me, a person who loves to jump to the next thing as soon as possible; someone who suffers from a serious delayed gratification deficiency. I try, but I'm just too excited to wait.
So, as these last few weeks have cooled down to a gorgeous 78 high each day, and nights have been into the low 60's, and my curtains wave and sway in the breeze, and I sleep in my own earthly heaven, I am once again, not anticipating fall, but BRINGING it!!!!!! Hyvee is on board with my earliness. You can buy holiday scented febreeze and plug ins. Check. There are gourds and pumpkins there. Yess! Chili ingredients are on sale! Check. Football was miraculously on TV when I returned home the other night. CHECK!!!! Heck yes. Heeeck yes.
Listen to the locusts awake during the day and singing and awake at night and singing. Beautiful sunsets and cool running..ok....walking weather. It's about time to begin sewing and card making. It's almost time for tailgating and chili.
Somehow I've passed on this love for fall. Olivia said to me yesterday, "MOM! It's almost fall and fall means WINTER! Which I love because that means Christmas and then my birthday! (In January)." So, as a good mom would, I encouraged her and said, "Then comes Valentines Day and Easter, WHOOHOOO!"
Come hang out with the Clarks. We're always cracked out excited about what's next. Good? Bad? Ehhhh...who cares? We're excited!
