Day 16: Seasons

My favorite season is by far fall.  I definitely enjoy all the seasons, but fall is the best, in my opinion.  Summer gets too hot, spring is all muddy, and winter is way too long (and too cold sometimes, too!).  Fall, the temperatures are perfect.  Pumpkins and apples are fresh and yummy!  The leaves are changing and it is beautiful all around me.  Living in the Northeast with four different seasons is definitely a plus.  Besides, we have some of the prettiest foliage!

Fall is also Halloween and Thanksgiving.  I love carving my pumpkins and Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday in our home.  We love cooking and spending time with our families.  The food that you get to make in the fall is definitely the best. :)  Pumpkin pie, donuts, apple crisp, sweet potato casserole, turkey, stuffing...all so yummy.

I like getting ready to hibernate for winter...planning the books I will read while curled up in my blanket.  Catching up with movies and crocheting and knitting.  I am a home body and it's a time to be able to curl up at home and just enjoy being in my home.
Fall is probably the one time of year that it is definite that things are changing.  The leaves are changing colors and falling off of the trees.  It is also the season my boys were born in.  It is bittersweet.  I missed last fall in my haze of depression.  This year, I got to enjoy it.  Though it was hard at times...realizing that I'm not celebrating fall with my babies like I should be.

Change.  It is that reminder that things change and life has changed so very much.  Of the people that are still here and those that have walked out of our lives.  It is both painful and refreshing.  Change is hard though.  I like change, to an extent, but it is hard to see people you thought would always be there leave.  For me change is also a fresh start.  A way to start new and move forward.  A reminder to move forward.  Despite what life has thrown at us, we are accepting change and moving forward.