Thankful November

Once again, at midnight on Halloween, the Christmas bomb exploded. Once again, my heart aches for the sudden consumerism and insanity that grips the stores and apparently my fellow humans. What happened to being thankful and grateful for what we have rather than suddenly channeling our energy into living 2 months in the future and all the things we want? My kids are also affected, noticing that nobody seems grateful for what they have, and that nobody wants to celebrate fall anymore.

I'm trying to be thankful for my life and the things in it every day in November. Each day I will endeavor to post something I am thankful for, no matter how small, for every day in November. I realize it is now the 9th, so I will post 9 things today.

1. I am thankful that I have three wonderful and happy children, as different from each other as they could be but still happily joined in siblingdom.

2. I am thankful for my husband, who has stood with me and helped me through the shit that life occasionally throws at us.

3. I am thankful for 2015, as insane and emotionally difficult as it has been.

4. I am thankful for my friends.

5. I am thankful for this little mush and I am glad she's here.

6. I am thankful that I am employed.

7. I am thankful for my family, in its many permutations and forms.

8. I am thankful for podcasts.

9. I am thankful for FALL! It's still my favorite season and I love it so much.

October 13, 2012 - Pumpkin Festival!

The kids were not their happiest, and the weather wasn't the best, but we had fun and got some pumpkins!

October 9, 2012

The dogs don't really do so well when I say "sit" and then try to back up so I can take a picture.

October 8, 2012 - Fall at Last

We have had a strange fall here. A long, hot, dry summer, combined with the snow earlier this week, mean that the leaves are not necessarily changing the way they usually do. Nonetheless, I got some lovely shots this evening. 

October 1, 2012 - Giant Pumpkin!

We went to pick up our CSA share, and while we were there we stopped to take a picture with the kids and the giant pumpkin left from the weigh-off this weekend.  It's a little like herding cats, trying to get two small children to look at the camera and stand by a pumpkin at the same time, especially when L has learned that as soon as she hears the "click" she can run away but J likes to make faces and stuff in pictures.

I love this picture. I didn't realize til now that you could see L "flying" off to the side!