A Little Update

    All around me outside of this house is breathtaking right now. Every time I am driving the children somewhere I am sort of overcome by the colors all around. I just cant shake the beauty. It is astounding. I wish I could scoop up handfuls of it and somehow and keep it with me always. There is this feeling in Autumn that I get and it reminds me of innocence and happiness and freshness and wonder and I wish I had better balance at this life I am living. I wish I could portray how I feel to my children better than just remarks in the car as we drive.
  This month we had my little cow girl's birthday and that was the highlight. We had Halloween tonight. I had a two year old Elmo. We were not going to go trick or treating because we are on this 'diet' and so I didn't want to do costumes because I am lazy and costumes are not my jam at all. However we ended up going to the thrift store and picking up a little Elmo costume for the two year old which looked adorable and which he adored. He walked up to doors and said 'twick a tweat' and 'Gankchew' (thankyou) and was so overwhelmed that they were giving him candy!! He had a zip lock sandwich bag for his candy. He was so precious!!!!! I had a six year old pirate (we also got that costume today) and nine year old explorer with a questionable mustache and a beautiful eleven year old princess with a dollar store tiara; she had such high heels that four houses was her limit. I hadn't gone trick or treating with them before as my husband or my dad takes them and so it was fun to see them so excited. This diet has really changed my children's perspectives about sweets. They were SO grateful to get candy from four houses. So cute!
  So goodbye October. You have been inspiring. I hope November bring us health, sunny days, happy happy happy moments and through the changes that will come we will feel safe.
I hope you are doing well out there wherever you are. Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you have a blog feel free to leave the link in the comments. I would love to read it.
Love Tansy