Mom's Letters: Touches of Fall

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Touches of Fall

The weather HAS COOLED dramatically over the last week! We are thoroughly enjoying the beautiful, breezy 80's! Windows are open, the A/C is OFF and fresh air is filling the house!! I've had so much fun the past few days with my family (my mom surprised us with a visit this weekend, along with Michelle and Drew) and decorating for Halloween. I wanted to share some of what I have done with the place to set the mood.

This morning I officially closed swimming season in the backyard by pulling in the sunbleached pool towels and swimsuits. It is shocking how quickly the water gets cold when the nights are cool. It was a good, hot summer. And we are looking forward to another good, cool winter outdoors.

1 comment:

Anne said...: I think I may be too scared to come home at night... this is the best decorated Halloween place I've ever seen. We'll call it the Haunsteads. Looks great - where's the scarecrow who stole my shirt? Ash looks like a million bucks.

Love - Dad; October 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Touches of Fall

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