Sweet November

I wanted to write a blog yesterday, but I got side-tracked shopping for nik-naks instead.  I wanted to write because it's November now, the most romantic month of the year.  It is for me anyway. Not just because I was married in November, or because Brian said, "I love you" to me for the first time in November.  It's because it is a time of beauty and Thankfulness. The weather is cool and everything in nature is like eye-candy for me this month.  We celebrate Thanksgiving, a real American holiday with meaning, and Winter is well on it's way. Even with the lack of sleep I had last night and the vomit I have been cleaning up all day from my sick little one, I am feeling incredibly blissful. So many of my friends are caught up with the hustle and bustle of this money-driven, fast-paced sham of a life that society tells us to live. It's easy to get sucked up in all that mess.  But I don't want to just step back and enjoy a moment every now and then, I want to stay back and enjoy every minute of the life we were created for.  Our time is now, and I'm tired of missing out.

There are two trees outside of Ethan's school that I see every day.  Two weeks ago I noticed how marvelous they looked with all the bright, yellow leaves in contrast with their dark, brown trunks. I even took a picture of them with my phone, but a long weekend is all that it took for them to become completely bare. I have to admit that I was disappointed that all of the yellow beauty couldn't last just a little longer.

The changing seasons are a perfect example of how fast time escapes us. Let us not waste it anymore.