Ahhh... here it is, November. I looked through my posts from October and thought I did pretty well. Not necessarily interesting subjects but I posted almost every day the first half of the month. You see, I was trying to participate in the "Blogtoberfest" - where one blogs every. single. day. I didn't call attention to it because I didn't want to set myself up to fail. And I didn't want to call attention to it because then I would feel like I was letting my readers down by not posting something every day. While I obviously did not succeed per the rules of the blogfest, I did manage to blog a lot and I'm proud of that.

SO - it's November! Isn't it grand? I just LOVE the fall colors and the crisp air and apple-cider donuts. I also LOVE that Halloween is over. I've got two big bags of candy that I'm still sorting through. NO - not to pick out the yummies for myself. Rather, I like to go through and pick out all the candy that would work for gingerbread houses. Yep - we're going to be doing them this year and I'm so excited! What candies do I pilfer? Jolly ranchers or any hard candy that can be smashed up & cooked into cookies for the "stained-glass" windows. Lollipops for festive trees or even lamp-posts. Nerds for a pebbled pathway. Let's see... what else is there? Um........ I can't think of anything else at the moment. You'll see our work in progress after Thanksgiving.

Like the bats? My 7yo daughter cut these out and I strung them up. This was the extent of our Halloween decorations. Sigh. At least it was something!

My thoughts are all disjointed, so I'll stop for now.

Hope you're having a lovely day!