I am so glad that I was born in the fall. This time of year is my favorite! I love the feel of autumn. I love the colors, the coziness, the clothes, the smell, apples, pumpkin soup, pumpkin anything... sigh, I'm just in love with it. All of it.
Summer is wonderful with it’s long hot days and brilliant sunshine, the camping, barbeques, sun bathing, 4th of July. But there’s just something about autumn. It makes my joyful. It makes me want to go to Park City and walk around. Maybe get some apple cider and go slide down the Alpine slides. Not at the same time. I miss autumn in Utah. Ohio is amazing, with the thousands of huge trees, their leaves changing, and the large apple orchards and many farmers markets. But there’s something about autumn in Utah. I long for it. I crave a drive up the canyon with the windows rolled down. The crisp mountain air blowing in my hair. I crave going to my Mother and Father’s house and having homemade bread shmeared with homemade apricot jam and a mug of Pero, sitting out on the deck having fun conversation. I crave going to Temple Square and walking around the beautiful gardens full of fall flowers and admiring the beautiful temple where I got married. I am making myself so very homesick right now. I just pray that next year at this time, I will be enjoying all of this wonderfulness I just described.
I do enjoy Cleveland autumns though. I love when the leaves start to fall. When they get raked up, it creates mountains. Seriously, they're almost 6 feet tall. The colors are brilliant and there are SO many trees, it makes for a gorgeous landscape. And the apples, oh, the apples!!
Anywho, I turned 32 yesterday. I’d like to say that I’m as mature as my years suggest. But I can not say that. Because I would be lying. I am 16 in my head. I think it will probably change slightly as the years go by, but in my observation of the adult world, I’ve come to conclude that there is no such thing as a grown up. We are all just kids trying to live responsible lives, taking care of our own children (not me, but soon. And no, that’s not an announcement). That, I think, is what gets us through this life. It would be sad if we didn’t have that kid we used to be, in our heads telling us to calm down and have fun once in a while. I’m grateful that I can still find joy in the small things.
My birthday was awesome. Just me and my baby. He got me a beautiful string of pearls! He was right when he said that every woman needs a classy pearl necklace. I didn’t know that until I opened that blue box. I was delighted! I was also able to web cam with my wonderful familia. My nephew and I spent some time making faces at each other and doing karate chops. He would put his cute little hands together and bow every now and then and say “Master” (he’s really into Kung Fu Panda). How cute is that? He is such a delight. I can’t find another word for it. He’s just a delight. What would we do without that kid? I don’t even want to find out. I’m so grateful for adoption. What a miracle that is.
32 will be good. I hope it will bring me my own miracles, adopted or not. We’ll see what happens.
Happy Fall Everyone!!!!!
I do enjoy Cleveland autumns though. I love when the leaves start to fall. When they get raked up, it creates mountains. Seriously, they're almost 6 feet tall. The colors are brilliant and there are SO many trees, it makes for a gorgeous landscape. And the apples, oh, the apples!!
Anywho, I turned 32 yesterday. I’d like to say that I’m as mature as my years suggest. But I can not say that. Because I would be lying. I am 16 in my head. I think it will probably change slightly as the years go by, but in my observation of the adult world, I’ve come to conclude that there is no such thing as a grown up. We are all just kids trying to live responsible lives, taking care of our own children (not me, but soon. And no, that’s not an announcement). That, I think, is what gets us through this life. It would be sad if we didn’t have that kid we used to be, in our heads telling us to calm down and have fun once in a while. I’m grateful that I can still find joy in the small things.
My birthday was awesome. Just me and my baby. He got me a beautiful string of pearls! He was right when he said that every woman needs a classy pearl necklace. I didn’t know that until I opened that blue box. I was delighted! I was also able to web cam with my wonderful familia. My nephew and I spent some time making faces at each other and doing karate chops. He would put his cute little hands together and bow every now and then and say “Master” (he’s really into Kung Fu Panda). How cute is that? He is such a delight. I can’t find another word for it. He’s just a delight. What would we do without that kid? I don’t even want to find out. I’m so grateful for adoption. What a miracle that is.
32 will be good. I hope it will bring me my own miracles, adopted or not. We’ll see what happens.
Happy Fall Everyone!!!!!
