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There are some mornings where I feel like I might simply be crushed by the beauty of the world around me. I love this time of year, dawn breaking with high pink and orange clouds while the sleepy world below is still tinged with the purples and blues of night. Stars fading, rays of sun breaking through the ridgeline to illuminate the candy colored trees. The sugar maples are about to turn. Each day more and more color.

The kids are going to be scarecrows for Halloween. This weekend’s to-do list includes going thrifting for overalls, flannel shirts and straw hats. We also have to find Brooks some shoes. That kid has some *seriously* wide wide wide feet. Like, nothing available in a normal store fits him. There’s a specialty kids shoe store in town that will fit him and tell us what to look for and where – so here’s hoping! I’m pretty sure we can get away with Target shoes for Brenner… Brooks is going to need the expensive stuff. Why are shoes for kids so darn pricey?! It’s not like they won’t outgrow them overnight!

I have a seminar on Insurance Product Knowledge all morning. Stopped for coffee and oatmeal from McDonalds on my way in. Their oatmeal is my favorite. A rare treat! I stopped at Dunkin Donuts earlier this week for coffee and saw that they had oatmeal on their menu now. I ordered it spontaneously because, yay – oatmeal! But is was a cup full of plaster. I managed to choke down most of it but then had to stop. Fail.

I saw this idea on Pinterest of taking acorn caps and running a thin wire through the top before gluing pretty glass beads under them to make shiny, multicolored acorns to hang on a miniature Christmas tree. (I live with the Queen of Christmas, in case you didn’t know.) Nicole LOVED it. And now, wherever we walk we come home with pockets full of acorn caps. There is a mason jar in our kitchen charmingly keeping them all together for us until we are ready to create. It makes my heart happy.

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There are some mornings where I feel like I might simply be crushed by the beauty of the world around me. I love this time of year, dawn breaking with high pink and orange clouds while the sleepy world below is still tinged with the purples and blues of night. Stars fading, rays of sun breaking through the ridgeline to illuminate the candy colored trees. The sugar maples are about to turn. Each day more and more color.

The kids are going to be scarecrows for Halloween. This weekend’s to-do list includes going thrifting for overalls, flannel shirts and straw hats. We also have to find Brooks some shoes. That kid has some *seriously* wide wide wide feet. Like, nothing available in a normal store fits him. There’s a specialty kids shoe store in town that will fit him and tell us what to look for and where – so here’s hoping! I’m pretty sure we can get away with Target shoes for Brenner… Brooks is going to need the expensive stuff. Why are shoes for kids so darn pricey?! It’s not like they won’t outgrow them overnight!

I have a seminar on Insurance Product Knowledge all morning. Stopped for coffee and oatmeal from McDonalds on my way in. Their oatmeal is my favorite. A rare treat! I stopped at Dunkin Donuts earlier this week for coffee and saw that they had oatmeal on their menu now. I ordered it spontaneously because, yay – oatmeal! But is was a cup full of plaster. I managed to choke down most of it but then had to stop. Fail.

I saw this idea on Pinterest of taking acorn caps and running a thin wire through the top before gluing pretty glass beads under them to make shiny, multicolored acorns to hang on a miniature Christmas tree. (I live with the Queen of Christmas, in case you didn’t know.) Nicole LOVED it. And now, wherever we walk we come home with pockets full of acorn caps. There is a mason jar in our kitchen charmingly keeping them all together for us until we are ready to create. It makes my heart happy.