At Home in the Mountains

 We have had constant weather changes over the whole month of a front coming through and bringing more bearable fall like temperatures, desire for hot cider in the evenings, and pleasant strolls outside and then swinging upwards into the 90's again making us long for a dunk in the pool and and iced tea and watermelon. It has wreaked havoc on all of us allergy wise.  A couple of weekends ago, we had one of those fall-like spells and Maddy had been asking for three or four weeks already to get a pumpkin...so what does it matter that it was still 46 day until Halloween. We carved a jack'o'lantern and put it out on the front step. We bought another pumpkin and made pumpkin soup from part of it and froze the rest of it. I put up 18 cups of pumpkin so I have enough to make pumpkin pies til the cows come home. We also roasted pumpkin seed which is always a fantastic treat. Trying on Tam's shoes has become a new source of entertainment. Maddy loves waiting...

Well this post is a little late. We just finished week two of Maddy's Tues./Thurs. school program. She started a Mother's Day Out at a large church close to our house and she is loving it! I love it too. It is really nice to have a couple of mornings where I have time to run, get things done around the house uninterrupted, shop, get work done for teaching, etc. Maddy is always ready to go to class when it is a school day. She loves playing on the playground, painting, and playing dress up. She has only had one potty accident at school which is pretty good for her. The dress she is wearing in the pic is the dress we bought for her first day of school outfit. She calls it her "school dress" and she wears it to school every time it is clean. She always wears a dress to school. The thing I love most about her school is that she comes home talking about God. On Tuesday she was talking about God's Word. Today she kept talking about making God happy. They have a Bible ...