Fall is blissfully simple...

I love fall because there is something so simple and calming about it. Everything and everyone starts to slow down from the crazy summer. There's something so peaceful about watching a fire in the fireplace while the leaves gently glide down from the trees. It really makes me stop and reflect on all that I have and stop focusing on all that I do not. We've been truly blessed with two mostly healthy children and a wonderful house, one of us with a good job, the other an opportunity to go to school and wonderful family and friends as well. We've hopped on for a wild ride with a church just launching in our area. It's an amazingly terrifying experience and we are just helping, I can hardly imagine what our pastor and his family are going through. I pray that God continues to carry and guide them through this process and that he uses us to the best of our abilities to help ease the load. I had no idea what all would go into such a simple pleasure as attending church and to be on the inside is truly amazing. Thank you God for giving us this unique opportunity!

We are getting ready to gear up for the holidays and I couldn't be more pleased, I can almost smell the pumpkin pie baking!!! Each year around this time I long for the laughter of family gathered around a well dressed table of goodies. The delight of just being together and sharing our lives which doesn't happen often enough in our day to day life. But I'm also sad as well because I long for the friends and family back home. We have started our own family traditions but I fondly remember the times as a child gathered at my grandparents house. The times we all got together and ate until we couldn't eat anymore, the guys retired to the living room to watch football, the girls stayed in the kitchen to talk. It was better the guys weren't there because they surely wouldn't get a word in edgewise if they stayed! Sometimes, just sometimes it would even start to flurry outside as we gathered. Yes fall is blissfully simple...