So many things run through my head during the week that I could write about, yet when I sit down to blog I go completely blank. I better get into gear because next month is November and November means it's National Blog Month! Last year I finally blogged on all 30 days of November and I'm planning to do it again this year!
I love fall. I think October has become one of my favorite months. It's the month where the leaves start changing colors and the air is crisp. I can wear jeans and a hoodie in the morning and be wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops by the afternoon. It's ideal for football games, hot chocolate, and bonfires! Not to mention Halloween is coming up! We all know I love Halloween! I'm excited to actually get to pass out candy this year. Hopefully we have trick-or-treaters! I have no idea if there's lots of kids who trick-or-treat in our neighborhood or not.
Although fall also means that the days are getting shorter and that winter is creeping up on us. I'm never ready for that. The thought of the bitter cold makes me cringe...so I guess I'd better enjoy this weather while it lasts!
This weekend is our first free weekend in about a month. I'm excited because Saturday night I think we're going to go over to the Bates' and have a fire and make s'mores. Nothing says fall like a s'more either! I feel like it's been so long since I've seen them because we've been gone the past 2 Sundays from church.
So many things that I should do, so hopefully I get some motivation. I hate when I end up wasting my day away, yet I don't like doing so much stuff only to realize that I never really relaxed.
Jacob has been busy with musical practices after school several days a week. I'm excited to see the musical in November! They're putting on "The Wizard of Oz"! Then on Wednesday nights I don't see him until about 8:30. Youth group changed to Wednesdays this year and so he's been staying and working after school and doing some other stuff before that starts.
I had decided to stay home this year. My heart really isn't in working with youth group. I did it for several years at Valley View and then finally stopped a couple of years ago. Did a year of the kids program and then took a year to myself. I thought about working with the kids program here, but thinking back to when I helped at VV, my heart was never really in that either. Coming from a full day of taking care of kids and trying to focus on another group just doesn't work well for me. I would find myself lacking patience and just not really putting my heart into it. I have to decompress after work. If I have to go do anything after work I have to psych myself up for it. I don't know why...but I was even like that as a teenager. Always a homebody.
Anyway, I've rambled long enough.
I think it's especially hard to get motivated when the weather turns cold. I also like to just come home after work and once I'm in I want to stay in. We had choir tonight at 8:10 (after AWANA and worship team practice). I hated having to leave my house at 8:05 (altho it's nice to have the church just right up the road). Oh well, 'tis the life I live right now. Thanks for the reminder about November being blog month. I need to gear up for that too.
ReplyDeleteThat was good insight for you to take the year off from the children on Wed. nights! I tell you even though your heart may not have been in it helping with the VV kids - you sure did a WONDERFUL JOB!!! It was a delight seeing you with the kids. I know that is why you have been called to help out the kids during the day - it is A GIFT from God and a wonderful gift to the kids!
ReplyDeleteI too am enJOYing FALL!!! Yes, I too will enJOY every day of it. I don't look forward to the bitter cold, but will try to handle it better this year with God's help. :)