lacy.lynn: Spooky Season! October.

October! We did it! We ended the month with some fun pink eye and a lot of candy and that's just how life is right now. (and honestly, how life will be for the next 6+ years...)

What We Did -

We've gone for a few years now, so I think it's officially a tradition for us to go to Logan for the day in October. We ogle the leaves in the canyon, go to the American Heritage West center for fall activities, and this year we also met up with my mom at the Pumpkin Walk. The kids pass out for the drive home and it's a great time all around. We celebrated Everett's second birthday! I went to Evanston for my work's Fall Social. We went to a movie night at Norah's school, but had to leave with 20 minutes left because the sprinklers turned on. I had a fancy friend brunch at La Caille. Brian and I went to Thriller on their final tour. We went to a "spook alley" (it wasn't spooky) at Millcreek Gardens, played mini golf at All Star, and went to Discovery Gateway for June's birthday! We played at the playground at Norah's school, and had a sugarhouse park playdate with friends. Brian and I went to the Sadurn concert. And we wrapped it all up with our "spooky" candlelight dinner, Norah's school Halloween parade and trick or treating for all the kids who didn't have pink eye. (It was Ev. Ev had pink eye.)

Inspired by -

The weather, the leaves, my kids loving the spooky decorations on houses.

Watching -

Derry Girls, Taskmaster, Frasier, Ramy, Abbott Elementary, and I started Gilmore Girls for the nth time for fall and comfort reasons.

Reading -

A Special Place for Women, I'm Glad My Mom Died, Our Wives Under The Sea. All of them bangers.

Thinking about -

Getting older, releasing guilt, taking care of my body, how my kids are growing so fast and I feel like I'm forever so joyful and in a constant state of mourning for how fast time passes.

Listening to -

Sadurn, crappy Halloween playlists while I craft with the kids, podcasts on Stitcher premium while I have a month of free access.

Researching -

Halloween costumes, outfits for Lizzo and Harry Styles concerts, shoes, Halloween decor for next year.

Organizing -

Kitchen cabinets (veeeery slowly), a system for all the incoming paper and art projects from my lovely daughters.

Cooking + Eating + Drinking -

Drinking tea and pumpkin coffee, eating anything that can go in an air fryer (I finally got one), cooking very minimally as always.

Grateful for -

Being able to celebrate holidays with my kids who love them, friends who will listen to me complain all day, and that the Java Joe's in front of Smith's finally opened.

What the girls are into -

Norah - Assembling her Marceline costume. Drawing witches and devils and "____ of death". (Pumpkin of death, panda of death....you get it). Watching Owl House.

June - putting on concerts, dressing up, writing letters and drawing people, wearing stick-on earrings, her pink flats, and her new fairy wings.

Neither of them are into wearing pants. I finally, sloooowly, convinced them they needed to wear pants every day instead of shorts. It was a reluctant success.

What Everett is doing -

Getting sick! Also talking so much, mostly just in single words. And mostly just the ending sounds of those words? But it's great progress. He is running, bouncing, climbing, rolling, all the time, but also likes to pretend to take a nap. Sleeping is one of the great loves of his life, along with cheese, Bluey, and markers.

Magic -

The weekend before Halloween was filled with lots of Halloween art and crafts, spooky episodes of bob's burgers, and an afternoon of perfect weather and painting pumpkins outside.

Looking forward to -

Ugh I don't know. I'm not excited about winter, or the endless sickness that seems inevitable. I like Christmas, but I don't want to do all the work for it! I'm sure I will get in the spirit eventually. Oh! But I have a Harry Styles California trip next month and that is definitely something to look forward to.