My Favorite Time Of Year

As a child I remember the weather turning colder and that was a sign for my family to start preparing for winter. My dad taking the pickup truck out in the woods to find firewood. Bringing it home and then my dad getting out his chainsaw and cutting the wood and all of us kids piling the firewood on pallets. My mom getting everything from her garden that was still there, canning and swapping out summer clothes for winter clothes, and weather proofing the windows. Getting outside toys put away for another winter. I loved getting ready for winter as a child and that has carried through to adulthood/mommyhood.
For the last week I have been going through my girl's closets and swapping out summer for winter clothes and reorganizing bedrooms. Getting the hats and mittens out and ready for colder weather. Purchasing new furnace filters, window weather treatments and new weather strips for the doors, making sure I have plenty of feety jammies for the girls, we all have a good pair of slippers, and I purchased a nice warm blue robe for my husband.
Another thing I do to get ready for the cold weather is hitting all the second hand stores and purchasing new movies, toys and books and putting them away for when it is too cold to go out and KL is feeling restless. I have also purchased lots of craft stuff from the Dollar Store and put it away. She loves doing crafts and it really keeps her busy. I purchased construction paper, new crayons, scissors, stickers, glue and stamps.
I will be going to the second hand stores after Halloween and purchasing any leftover costumes to put away in her dress up tub. I will be getting more wands, crowns, jewelry, boas, and fake makeup from the Dollar Store for her dress up days.

This is KL's room. She does not have a dresser, but she has a fabulous Closet Maid and we really put it to good use. I would recommend one of these to everyone. I love it!


This is VJ's dresser and closet. I have many more clothes, I just ran out of hangers, and the rest are still in Neb and I will get them in November.



Getting extra blankets out for my girls!


KL has been enjoying picking berries off of our bushes. She knows she can't eat them, but she puts them in piles on the sidewalk for the birds and the squirrels.





A sound I hear constantly now is the squirrels on the deck, the tree next to the deck and the swing set chewing open walnuts and leaving the remnants behind. I hear it all day long and I love it. It is just another sign that winter will soon be upon us.