FaLL LeAvEs!

I just love raking leaves. Two Saturdays ago I raked the backyard, but it wasn't so fun because I smelled dog poo. I couldn't SEE it, but I smelled it. Yuck...

But last Saturday, when I did the front yard, there was nothing but beautiful dead leaves and a sucker wrapper. Now, half the fun of raking is watching the kids play in the big pile. Here are some picks of my kids and their friends playing in the leaves. Only one thing would have made it better: more leaves.





Five Things I Love About Fall:
1. Raking (and no, I'm not kidding)
2. Rain instead of snow
3. Jacket weather
4. Decorating for the Halloween and Thanksgiving Holidays
5. I dare to bake again

Congratulations Obama Voters!

Even though I decided to vote for McCain (please don't hate me), I'm excited to see what the next four years bring. It was a tought decision for me, and I like a lot of what Obama wanted.

My daughter, however, was not so happy Obama won. She woke me up last night, after hearing O (for Obama, not Oprah) won, and was worried because she heard that if O wins, kids have to start going to school on Saturdays. I assured her that this was not the case.

In other news, the heat stopped working today in my ALL CONCRETE AND GLASS building that I work in. When we all plugged in our desk heaters, we blew a circuit and the computers turned off. All is well now, and I'm really glad that I wore a sweater today!

And in other news....I applied for graduate school for next year. Scary! We'll see if I get accepted!

My Five:
1. The heaters, computers, water, phones - everthing - is working at this exact moment.

2. Good health. Turns out I'm NOT addicted to Diet Coke after all. I was just really sick.

3. I love who I work with. Most of them, anyway.

4. We live in a free country with choices. I'm glad we got to vote! And I'm also glad the voting lines were short (for me at least).

5. Sunlight in the mornings.

I'm Baaaaack!

I feel so much better! I slept for almost 20 hours straight Friday/Saturday, took some iron pills, and feel a lot better!

But that's not why I decided to get back into the blogging world. My sister Liz wrote a blog about not stopping, which was great. But that's not why I decided to get back into blogging, either.

No, it was this chilly, windy, rainy, awful weather. Not really. It's the scarf that I treasure every morning in this chilly, windy, rainy, awful weather. Another sister, Jess, knitted me a scarf a few years back and can I just say it's the best thing EVER?! It's so warm and soft and thick and beautiful, and stuff like that just makes me want to blog!

So thank you, Jessica! And thank my kids for not using it in a fort over the summer and loosing it. I think that explains why their scarves are missing. Thankfully, theirs wasn't of hand-knitted quality, so no huge loss.

Happy Election Day!