Memories

It's November! That time of the year when the leaves fall and dance on the sidewalk. The wind blows and every shade of yellow, orange and red vibrantly fill the world around us. The year comes and goes and suddenly it is almost a new year all over again. The holiday season is around the corner where so many memories reside. Memories of the smell of pumpkin and apple crumb pie baking the night before Thanksgiving. Memories of trying to arrange enough table space and chairs for all of the family that will be stuffing themselves until they feel like they are going to explode. Memories of family. Games and songs and movie nights. Memories that no one could ever take away because of how they live inside me. The cranberry sauce that mom made each year that I hated. The mashed potatoes overflowing with gravy that I couldn't get enough of. And the homemade rolls. Yum yum! Somehow I can never get my rolls to turn out the same way mom did and still does. All of these memories and home where my parents reside is so far away and I will be so far from them on Thanksgiving day. I now have a family of my own and I get to begin to make new memories with them. I can only hope that they will someday look back on these times and think of them the same way I do now. As my oldest gets older (she's only 2) all of these little things become so exciting all over again because she is experiencing them for the first time. It makes me think back to when I was a kid and experienced these things and how exciting this time of year was. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then New Years! Halloween this year was so much fun for me. I dressed Katelyn up in a little homemade bunny costume with a little cotton ball tail and she ran from house to house so absolutely amazed at the fact that people were putting candy in her little bag. She was with her little friend Porter, and she kept saying, "Come on Porter. Run Porter!" It was the absolute cutest thing ever. Pushing the stroller behind her with my little Charlie Brown in tow. It is during these moments and times that it is so absolutely rewarding and just plain FUN to be a mom. I love it! Making memories with my little squirts. They mean the world to me.

This is a picture of Katelyn with her good friend Porter and his little sister Ivy. Ivy and Daniel were born one day apart. Porter was Dwight Schrutt from "The Office." So cute!