Autumn

I can't say that autumn is my favorite season. I could probably go into the details of why that is, but I shan't. Of course autumn is a beautiful time with the changing leaves and all. But the best thing about autumn is that Christmas is on the way. I love Christmas oh so very much. And because Thanksgiving is happening so late this year (at least it seems to me), I am rebelling and am starting my Christmas-ing now. Look at me, I even changed my blog background!

Before I get too much into Christmas, though, I better share some of these photos from our leaf raking (not so much) last Saturday. I was feeling well and the sun was shining ever so nicely. Quick pregnancy tangent ~ I have discovered that when I can get out of bed at my leisure, I have felt well pretty much all the live long day. With my first pregnancy and all of the sickness I remember many older women tell me, good naturedly, "I just had to get up and going and force myself out or I'd be sick all day." Nay! Pretty much the only really good days I've had have been when I stayed in my bed until I felt like getting out. Regrettably that can ever only happen on Saturday or Sunday (and with babies it was never so I'm not complaining, I'm just saying...) The kids still wake me constantly to fix a broken transformer or zip up a pair of pants or whatever the request, but they are big enough that usually their needs don't force me out of bed (and they also know not to turn on the light with their requests and to shut my door when they go back out). So, I love my weekends now more than ever.

Back to Autumn. It had been very rainy and gloomy for quite some time, but Saturday was brilliant so the kids and I took advantage to clean up some leaves. There was a little bit of raking and then lots of...
...leaf fights...
...requests for mom to bury kids in the piles so that they could jump out and leaf fight some more......leaf angels......and plenty of all around happy cuteness!