I love FALL

Or as we know it here in Texas, less hot summer.  I'm not a fan of pumpkin spice or anything like that but I do like crisp mornings where you need a sweater (or in my case socks).  It is funny to watch the boys dress in the morning because I remember doing the same stuff when I was there age.  I didn't want to wear a jacket or pants (or socks) and I'm seeing them do stuff that I used to do like wear shorts and a sweatshirt or my favorite socks with sandals.  I know how to fight my battles and I know that it is either sweltering or freezing in the schools so I know they are doing their best.  They aren't into fashion anymore than I was at their ages so as long as they aren't getting sick, I let them be.  They'll figure it out when they grow up and move north where fall actually means freezing temperatures and snow.

I'm trying to get back into crafting after a long break.  I don't know really why I stopped, I know it happened when we moved to Korea and I can't explain what happened when people ask me why I stopped.  I think a lot of it is just that I was trying too hard to keep up with what everyone else was doing and it wasn't really my style and then I lost my style and my mojo.  So I am going back to my roots and my basics.  Simple layouts with pictures and words on them.  I don't know if it will stick but I hope that I can at least catch back up with all the pictures that I still haven't gotten into albums.  The last thing I want is to die one day and my kids only have a hard drive to remember all the stuff with did together.  I need to put things into albums for them to flip through and share with their families one day.

I know I said when it started that I wasn't going to get into the planner stuff but I broke down and bought the fitness planner in August and started using it to log my food and exercise when school started back up and I love it.  I love all the little stickers and stamps and decorating the pages.  So much that I now have a fitness planner, a menu planning planner, a recipe book and a budget planner. And I have a memory planner too but we'll see what I do with that once I figure out how to print out small photos.