I love October

I think it's really funny that I LOVE this month.   It's not my birthday month, it's not my anniversary; it's just a really great month and I'll tell you why!

IT'S OCTOBER!

I LOVE:

* that the Arizona Desert starts cooling off.  I love that all the creepy things go into hibernation when it's cooler.  

* climbing into bed with a heat pack on  my still sore back.

* being cold and putting my feet on Curt's warm legs. (He's not a lover of this, but oh well.)

* wearing layers!  I can't tell you how much I love wearing 2 long sleeve shirts.

* wanting to drink Cocoa with marshmallows.  (and I love making homemade marshmallows, they are super yummy!)

* that even though all the trees here don't change colors, the trees an hour north do.

* the week before Halloween.  It's dedicated to watching scary movies and reading a scary book!  This year it's "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova.

* Making Halloween costumes! (It's my goal to have the costumes done a week before)

* winning the costume contest at the parties!  We're totally winning this year.

* Halloween Parties: Gena's and the Trunk or Treat (Myra, I'm sad that you aren't having one)

* the kids' fall parties! 
* Pumpkins ~ I can't wait to use them next month for pies!
* seeing all the other kid's halloween costumes
* ghosts ~ I have such an interesting view of them and think it's cool.
* kids crawling into bed with me just to get warm.
* the weatherman when he says the magical phrase, "The high will be in the 80s today."
* the early morning bus because it comes when it really is early morning!
* the electricity bill goes WAY down because the AC is off.
* the kids go to bed earlier because they think it's later than it really is.
* Green Grass... need I say more?

So, here it is... October and I'm loving this month so far.  I spent last night with friends at a book club discussing a wonderful and beautifully written book.

 The Thirteen Tale by Diane Setterfield.  Seriously, this is one of my favorite books EVER!  You know how some people have to give a book a few chapters before they even care about it?  This is the one book that has you absolutely captivated from the first paragraph...

 " It was November.  Although it was not yet late, the sky was dark when I turned into Laundress Passage.   Father had finished for the day, switched off the shop lights and closed the shutters; but so I would not come home to darkness he had left on the light over the stairs to the flat. Through the glass in the door it cast a foolscap rectangle of paleness onto the wet pavement, and it was while I was standing in the rectangle, about to turn my key in the door, that I first saw the letter.  Another white rectangle, it was on the fifth stop fromt hte bottom, where I couldn't miss it."

If you love books, and read a ton of them like I do, this book is a "must read". 

Anyway, back to my day of costume finishing.  I have to make my daughters and adjust mine.  It's going to be a beautiful day.