Leaves Falling

Autumn

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,

as if orchards were dying high in space.

Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."

And tonight the heavy earth is falling

away from all other stars in the loneliness.

We're all falling. This hand here is falling.

And look at the other one. It's in them all.

And yet there is Someone, whose hands

infinitely calm, holding up all this falling. 

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Jane made this tablecloth, inspired by our friend Jewel.

Julia and Ben came to spend the most beautiful fall day of the year with us.

 We spent a joyous day at Elk Island Park. It's our new Waterton.

Bison everywhere.

 We fieldtripped it at Prairie Adventure Farm. It's really close to our house. It was fun to spend the day there with family.

 The magic show was ridiculous. I felt like a little kid. It totally blew my mind! Jane is helping the magician in the picture below.

 Cousins Hazel and Henry- one month apart.

Autumn Love

                                 

According to this we've done our fare share of relishing. I have been taking knitting lessons, but it's not coming all that naturally to be honest. I really have to work at it. It would help if I had longer chunks of time to practice. I did finish a second pair of baby Uggs but they weren't any better than the first. Regardless, I think I'm moving on to a new pattern- The Brielle Slouchy. 

                 

Lots of walks with this guy or else he'd never leave the house.

Homemade hot chocolate by the Harry Potter colored fire.

Fall Festivities

This is one of the best school projects we've done this year for Jane. A nature notebook.

Here she is doing leaf rubbings whilst listening to the lap harp...

One evening while preparing the school room for the next day, I thumbed through her notebook and found these sweet pages.

 The next best school activity this year has been the writing center. I found this killer typewriter at the BB for $1.50. Check out the stack of letters ready to mail this week.

 I like this letter Jane wrote, this part in particular... "P.S. Are we nature buddy's?"

 I love it when I find pictures on my phone like this one. I later found out it was Charlie who took it. How did he get so close is what I want to know.

Seasons of Change

This was a blustery fall morning. The girls packed all kinds of things (dolls, limes, Despereaux, notebooks) in their bike baskets, then went for a ride. 

Scarlet got a wand in her workbox one morning and changed Timmy into "a freckle, and a pig."

Scarlet loves to hold a blanket and suck her thumb- she'll often show me a part of her blanket to smell. The last time she did this I said, 

"What does it smell like? 

I don't smell anything, it just smells clean to me." 

Scarlet answered, "It smells like chocolate and marshmallows."

Autumn 

by Rainer Maria Rilke

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,


as if orchards were dying high in space.


Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."



And tonight the heavy earth is falling

away from all other stars in the loneliness.



We're all falling. This hand here is falling.


And look at the other one. It's in them all.



And yet there is Someone, whose hands


infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

Fall Festivities

Pumpkin Farm Fun

Family time with Grandma Gail and Grandaddy, Gessie, and Ash's family.

Jacob was making us laugh because he was walking around with a corn cob between his legs (like for a while), so that he could use both hands to peel a corn cob and then have one ready to peel after. 

These ghosts are my new favorite crafty craft. They are super easy, cost like $4 and they are boo-tiful!

These are some shots of them hanging outside. The wind makes them fly around in a ghosty way.

See the floaty-ness.

        

 

I am missing Jacob's mask picture for some reason? It was fascinating for Tim and I to see our kids in a family dance setting. I didn't get pictures at the actual masquerade because it was too dark for my phone camera. But here are some highlights. Scarlet could not have been more delighted- she danced the night away. Jane learned some sweet dance moves from Shaina (who seriously got the party rock'in). I am still picturing her dancing on a chair with a black wig on... love her! 

Charlie was shy like me but he really wanted to dance. He needed his pal Brady I think.  And Jacob was happy as a clam just dancing by himself :0)