Autumn♥

I'm writing this post during commercial breaks from "Glee". If you haven't seen it, you should.

It may be set in a high school backdrop, but I think it's actually written for adults. "I think" because I think I may be an adult.


In the past week, fall has swept into our little town and home so quickly I didn't even get to say my proper goodbyes to summer.

The air is cool, the breeze is blowing, and I can smell the holidays approaching.

I should mention now that I am head over hills in love with fall. It brings a wonderfully skippity-doo-da feeling to my soul that is indescribable.

Heck, I even want to name our future girl munchkin Autumn in honor of this very special time of year that makes me want to do a happy dance each and every time I step off the front stoop.

But that probably won't happen due to the fact that we're passing down Nick's middle name, Snow, to our daughter.

Autumn Snow? A little too literal if you ask me.

But I digress.

I was a little concerned when we painted our family room blue that it would sort of be a color splash train wreck when I started decking the walls with fall and Christmas decorations but I'm actually finding it kind of fun.

There's something about that pop of blue that keeps everything so fresh and exciting when all the warm colors can make your head swirl and throw you into a curled up ball on the couch with your favorite snuggie and a mug of hot apple cider, falling into a cold weather coma before you can even say "...but wait I had dishes to do..."

I wouldn't really know though, seeing how I've never owned a snuggie, but it does seem to be pretty convenient when you want to hold that mug of cider but you don't want to bring your arms out from under the covers. Those geniuses.

Tonight, Nick and I will be spending out first night back in our own bedroom with the new furniture. We're sort of silly excited about the tufted comfort of the new pillow top mattress and the extra room we'll have moving from a queen to a king. Who would have thunk that darned 9 pound dog could some how take up more room in the bed than the two of us combined?

Then too early tomorrow morning I'll be up and off to stay in a hotel for work Thursday night. What a tease tonight will be.

With the new cooler weather, the Nickster and I will also be doing less sneaking around the thermostat before bed as well. Someone {me} always wants it cooler for sleeping while someone else {he} is always minding the electric bill. No more discussions of compromising degrees because that favorite season of mine makes this house a perfect degree of baby bear soup!

As if I needed another reason to love this time of year.

My favorite part of fall decorating is using the bags and bags of loose faux leaves I own. Call me tacky, but I LOVE sprinkling those babies over any and every surface they may stay put on.

It may not look like much, but I spent more time decorating this one little room than I care to say and when Nick saw it for the first time, he only had one thing to say:

"Looks like we need to break out the rake."

MEN. Gotta ♥ 'em.