This is Halloween, This is Halloween

Happy Halloween from our

D O U B L E

r e d

D O O R S

Second verse same as the first

Do you know what I am?

I’m a person with a smorgasbord of widely annoying and quite dreadfully irritating qualities: I talk way too fast, and way too loud, my laugh is exaggerated and borderline nauseating, I interrupt during conversation, I finish other people’s sentences, I tell the same story over and over again, I’m unfashionably late, I’m harshly tone deaf but sing anyway, I get lost, I worry about things that don’t need worried about, I’m the queen of good intentions, sometimes I fail to follow through, etc., etc., etc.!

I also tend to gravitate toward consistency. It comforts me.

It’s the reason that I used the exact same calculator in my freshman math class as I did in my college statistics class. It’s the same calculator I use today; and I will continue to use it until it breaks or I lose it. The calculator does nothing but adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides. My statistics professor recommended that I invest in a new, more advanced calculator. I didn’t!

It’s the reason that I keep a dayplanner. I started keeping my first dayplanner in 1998. I was sixteen years old and a sophomore in highschool. I will continue to keep a dayplanner.

It’s the same reason that I try to blog semi-regularly. It irritates me to be inconsistent and to have a huge gap in my bloggy journal.

And it’s the reason that I’m going to repeat “30 pictures in 30 days”. I love more of the same. It makes me happy. It seems consistent. So for the month of November I will be posting a picture a day for thirty days just like I did back in April. And, just like I will do again in the future. Because I’m me. And consistency is one of my qualities.

I would love for you to join me if you wish. Do you want to? Jenni?

And in the meantime we will be pacing our lovely abode awaiting Halloween.

In the memo line I’m going to write "To Loves Eternal Glory"

I most definitely married up!
Aren’t I lucky?

You’d better believe I am!

A list, or five

{Edited to add: I thought I had published this post first thing this morning, but for some reason it didn't post. I'm sure it was bloggers fault, not mine. Because look at me...I'm brilliant}

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Fall activities we've been enjoying:

Painting pumpkins.

Jace buddies favorite words:
Muma and Mum.
Oh, how happy that makes me.
P.S. He still isn't walking.

Highlights from the weekend:
Dinner at Red Robin with the Francis Family and Matt, Traci and Charlotte.
Road trips and sleeping in a hotel. Always a treat.

::Brynlee took this picture::

Collecting leaves.
Bundling up for our daily {sometimes bi-daily or tri-daily} walk/bike ride.
Painting apples. {In the nude, of course.}

Miss Alivia's baby blessing. She's beautiful.
Seeing Spence's side of the family.
Getting welcomed home by these.

On the agenda for today:
Grocery shopping {check}
Laundry {check}
Raking more leaves. My maple tree and crab apple tree are both almost naked. {check}
FHE & making caramel apples. Yum! {check, check}

Kitchen update:Floors done.
Cabinets done{ish}.
I have a sink, dishwasher, microwave and refrigerator.
But, no stove.
What's left: painting, back splash, trim and molding and loads of finishing touches.

Hope you all have yourself a great week.

I know we will.