Fall

Where on earth does the time go?

I don’t know about y’all, my friends, but I have been busy!  An exceedingly long pit stop at this awesome blog this afternoon inspired me to get myself back over here to post something. 

It’s autumn!  My favorite time of year.  It began at the end of August, with the start of football season.  My husband is a serious football fan, and it’s football, football, and more football from September through February at our house.  I enjoy the occasional game now and again, but mostly I just enjoy the sound of it on television.  That says “fall” to me.

Here in Florida, we don’t exactly get the leaves changing colors and falling, but the weather did make an abrupt turn from balmy to crisp, over night one day last week.  Wonderful.  It didn’t stay that way, of course.  This morning, waiting for the bus with my son, it felt like we were breathing soup.

But nothing stops the apple carts from showing up in the grocery stores, and I love that part of autumn, too.  The last time I was at Wal-mart, I really wanted to buy a jug of cider, but alas—no room in my fridge.

And finally, we can’t forget the October theme song on NOGGIN:  “I feel like I’m fallin’ for fall.”  I know all the words, and yes I do indeed sing along every time it comes on on the TV.  My boys think their mom is a little bit weird. 

Has the ill-named “swine flu” hit you yet?  I don’t know for sure if that’s what we’ve had here, but it’s likely, since it’s the going thing, apparently.  All three of my boys have been sick.  The oldest got an ear infection.  The middle guy caught a fever and cough (plus some vomiting—fun).  And the littlest has had a fever, too, plus gunky eyeballs.  Poor little chaps.  Charlie (in the middle) stayed home from kindergarten yesterday and today, but he should be able to go tomorrow, we think, as he’s been fever-free all day today.

In other news, I’ve started attending a Bible study at my parish on Monday mornings.  We’re doing the Great Adventure Bible Study, put out by Jeff Cavins of EWTN fame.  So far, so good.  The facilitator asked me if I would be a “table leader” for one of the small groups, and I really wasn’t sure about it because 1) I was dragging my feet about the study in the first place and 2) I’m pretty introverted and am one of the wallpaper people in those types of groups, for the most part.  (You know what I mean—I don’t say much; I blend into the wallpaper.)  But I told her I’d do it, and I’m so glad I did.  It’s turning out to be such a blessing, as is the study itself, as are the women in my group.  It’s wonderful to be studying the Bible again … I’d sort of neglected it for a while there in favor of other things.  (“Shame, shame, shame, everybody knows your name,” as my grandpa Earl would have said!)

Still plugging away on my novel.  I think I told you I had to take the whole thing apart and begin again.  It’s going much more smoothly now.  I’m making extremely rapid progress.  Working on Chapter Sixteen!  I have a couple of thoughts about that, but I think I will save them for my next post.  That will force me to come back here tomorrow and write some more, since I know exactly what I mean to say about it.  I am loving writing!

Happy Fall, y’all!