Playing in the leaves

While on the way home from Georgia we decided to stop and stay a night in Little Rock with my parents. It's a long drive and we were all looking forward to a break from the car. Mostly we just stop and sleep then go home the next day, but this time was a little different.
For weeks now Sophy has been asking me when the leaves will fall in our yard. I patiently take the time to explain that leaves won't fall in our yard each time she asks. "Why mommy?" Is always her response, and "Because we don't have any trees." is always my answer. Each time she looks so sad and will tell me again how Fall is about leaves and playing in them with her 'I'm so proud of my preschool knowledge' voice. It killed me that I couldn't give her the simple pleasure of playing in the leaves. I even thought of stealing a full bag of leaves someone had left on the curb, spreading them across my lawn in the night and telling Sophy in the morning, "Look the leaves finally fell!". Jeff was adverse to this plan, so it was never carried out.
On our trip back home however my mom came to me early in the morning before we had loaded up to go home and asked me if the girls could play in the leaves with their cousins before we left. I of course jumped at the chance to fulfill my daughters desire. "Oh and bring out your camera", she threw over her shoulder before taking them out.
I am so grateful for parents with a TON of leaves in their yard, an awesome leaf blower to make piles with, and the amazing pictures that came out of that mornings play.

Trip to Georgia

At the beginning of November Jeff and I took a trip to Georgia. While there Jeff worked and I wrote and played. It was a nice relaxing week without the kids (who were with Nanna).
On the drive down Jeff and I ended up behind this car. We kept thinking "what is that in the car?" . It was obvious that it was lots of the same thing...but what. I told Jeff, "Drive faster, lets check it out". The result? A car full, and I mean so full I'm not sure how the driver could drive since the windows were all blocked, or Toilet paper. Most were in packages, but some were loose rolls crammed here and there among all the packages. So I ask you, why would ANYONE need so much TP?

The Lady and Sons

While we were in Georgia I was about two hours away from Savannah. Knowing how close I was and not knowing when I'd get another chance I decided to take a day to drive over. My object? The Lady and Sons Restaurant. For anyone that doesn't know (and the only people this will apply to would be people who found me online and have never actually met me in person) I LOVE Paula Dean. Although I choose to avoid all her seafood recipes, I still think the food is divine. So you see why it would be worth driving two hours just for lunch.
While there I also checked out the Paula Dean store. I was a good girl and didn't spend big bucks like I wanted to, but man I wanted so much! I loved the apron that said "Country Cookin' Makes You Good Lookin'"!
All in all it was a pleasant drive and I'm glad I did it. I had the chicken salad sandwich and soup. The soup was wonderful! I wish I took a picture of the Chocolate Mousse Pie, but I ate it too fast. Oops.

Post on Posts

When I pulled up my bloglines list today I had a happy surprise. In the midst of the literary agents, editors, and twilight news blogs that I read daily I actually had a few friend blog posts. I was so excited. It's like going to the mail box and sifting through the magazines and junk mail to find an actually written letter with your name on it! How exciting!
I hurried to read all the funny and quippy things that my blog friends were talking about in their lives. Of course I was even more excited that my favorite funny mom was posting today! With facebook it seems like more and more of my friend leave one line updates, that althought funny too, just isn't the same as reading a well composed post on someone's blog. I myself am horrible about remembering to post and even worse at my composition, but today I felt the need. I thought you know there are two whole people who have subscribed to my blog on bloglines (it conveniently tells you how many, but now who. I'm afraid I might be counted as one of those two which actually only leaves me with one subscribed reader...sigh) and it might be nice if i gave them something nice on their list too... So here it is. My insightful post about posts.

Fall Fest

There is a fall festival that The Village puts on every year in the park across from Trish's house. We went last year and the kids loved it. This year was the same! I think they liked it more if possible because Lola and Annabelle were older and able to enjoy more. There was a petting zoo, a train, and bouncey things to play in. We spent all day playing and the kids slept SO well after wards. I'm so glad that we took the time to go again this year.