Autumn

Our plans for celebrating autumn:

~Visit a pumpkin patch
~Make candy/caramel apples (his and hers)
~Hike/take a nature walk at least once a week
~Start a nature table

~Indian corn craft

~Visit an apple orchard

~Appreciate some hot chocolate and hot apple cider

~Get lost in a corn maze

~Visit a farm

~Bake pumpkin bread

~Make lots of pots of soup

~Learn how to make more types of homemade bread

~Start working on ornaments for a Jesse Tree

~Visit a nursing home

~Make applesauce

~Collect lots of formula for the Brighton-Kennedy Foundation

~Carve pumpkins

~Trick or Treat

~Honor our three year wait for a little girl named Claire

~Halloween craftiness

~Practice gratitude

~Roast a turkey and mix up some stuffing

~Celebrate a certain TWO year old

~Make some Halloweenie treats

~Make Sophs a nature bag

"October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came
-The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band."

~George Cooper, "October's Party"