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This is my 3rd day of Heaven.

No air conditioner…Windows wide open…Sounds of kids rid­ing bikes and scooters.

How is this pos­si­ble, in South­ern Mis­souri, in the last part of August/first part of Sep­tem­ber?? Actu­ally, this whole sum­mer has been so mild I haven’t had to water my lawn not one sin­gle day. My grass is as green as it was in the Spring.

Love. It.

I’m blam­ing the cooler than nor­mal cli­mate on my desire to dec­o­rate for Fall NOW. My friends were laugh­ing at me because this week­end I put a pump­kin dec­o­ra­tion beneath my mailbox…just to annoy the mail­man you know. A-heh… 

So when I heard that The Inspired Room was hav­ing her annual Fall Nest­ing Party, I got a lit­tle obnox­ious giddy.  It’s where she gets us in the mood for Fall dec­o­rat­ing.  Now I’m SO not a dec­o­rat­ing kind of per­son, but for Fall…well, my main 2 col­ors, year round, in my liv­ing room is burnt orange and rust red.  We give Thanksgiv­ing every day of the year!

I do hope to get won­der­ful ideas on what to do with my fire­place this year and what more I can do out­side (I have corn­stalks from our gar­den this year!)…I’m so tired of doing the same thing.

And I can’t for­get the recipes! I’m ready for some new recipes too.

If you guys aren’t par­tic­i­pat­ing but you have  a tried and true decoration/recipe that you use and don’t mind sharing…I’d love to hear about it!

**Thanks so much for all the ideas and thoughts on home­work time. It’s actu­ally com­fort­ing to real­ize that this is just a rite of Par­ent­hood passage.**