Excited

Lately, I've been excited about a few new things:

1.  It's fall.  Fall is my favorite season, or at least by the time it gets here, I'm sick of heat and haying, so it's a welcome thing!  It's one of my favorites, anyway.  I love driving and looking at the trees changing colors; I like decorating with corn, straw bales and pumpkins; I love waking up in the morning, having a cold house and needing a cup of coffee; and I love how it's sweatshirt weather.  I also love that I no longer need to mow my lawn, weed my garden, or water my flowers.  It's wonderful! :)

2.  We've been doing some fencing.  I don't really mind fencing that much.  I like putting clips on and fencing is a project where you start somewhere at the beginning of the day, and by the time you've finished for the day, you can feel like you've accomplished something.  The part I don't like about fencing is digging the railroad ties into the ground.  It takes a while and makes my arms start to hurt (not that they don't need it, but it's my least favorite part).  Anyway, the railroad tie part is almost finished, so I guess I can move on to better things. :)

3.  We're thinking of adding on to the back of the house.  It's not definite yet, but we're thinking about it, and that's a start! We are going to add a big back entry (the main one for now), a bathroom/laundry room combo, and a small office spot.  This will satisfy me to no end!  I won't have to go upstairs to go to the bathroom, downstairs to wash clothes, out the front door (with all the jackets, boots, etc. right by the front door), and we'll have a spot (besides the kitchen table) for our bills and computer.  I can't wait. 

4. I'll soon be in charge of music at our church.  It's a position they made up, a music coordinator for the church, so our pastor has more time to focus on a stewardship project.  I'm really excited about it;  at the beginning, it'll be pretty basic, but I'm hoping to enhance it and make it a fun thing for the church.  Wish me luck!

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Well...those are my main four, I guess........

This morning I brought the kids to Hallock to have school pictures taken (my uncle's the photographer and he does pre-preschool kids, too).  The kids were darling and smiled perfectly.

Nikki came with and we went to visit my grandma Muriel afterwards.  She had surgery on a toe last week and has kept herself homebound, so we thought we'd go and break up her day for her.  We were there for two hours, had coffee, visited, played the piano, the accordion, and dragged out nearly all the toys from her entry to the kitchen floor.  :)

Hope you have a great Wednesday and have something you're excited about!