Hello Cleo Followers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sorry I didn\u2019t post in September; it was a crazy month. My husband and I were optimistic enough to bring our two young sons, ages 20 months and 4 years old, on a 17-day adventure to England and France. We took lots of pictures of us smiling at all the amazing sites, but let\u2019s just say that when we landed back in the States, we were tempted to kiss the ground, vowing we\u2019d never travel out of the country with young children again. If you\u2019re signed up for my newsletter, I shall share some of our scary, funny, and hard times we endured there. We can now look back and laugh at most of the situations\u2026.most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, October is my and my husband\u2019s favorite! The Pacific Northwest is stunning right now. I went on a run yesterday evening and stopped in my tracks several times, gawking at the sun setting over a vast, bright green field. My kids and I picked about 100 pounds of apples in the past couple weeks. Most of which I turned into applesauce and apple cider. I\u2019ve got tons of apple cider in my deep freezer. We\u2019re saving it for Thanksgiving when our family will come to visit. I made butternut squash soup with squash from our garden and also made a ton of pumpkin puree to make all kinds of pumpkin goodies. But I probably made a mistake letting my four-year-old have full access to all the seeds we scraped out of our pumpkins. I found him running all over our yard with a spoon, \u201cplanting\u201d all the pumpkin seeds. I guess we\u2019ll see if our lot is covered with pumpkin vines this time next fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Halloween is just around the corner! What are you dressing up as? My older son and I have been working on his costume all week, building an ark and carving a staff and making him a beard so he can be the biblical Noah, and his brother be one of his animals on the ark, a tiger. Last, I love this month because my husband and I got married this month 7 years ago. We attended a wedding at the end of September and as the bride and groom were exchanging their hand-written vows, we realized that we had never written our own for each other somehow. So, this year we wrote our vows and read them to each other on our anniversary. One of my favorite gifts yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started my book club back up for the school year and in the\nmonth of October we are reading the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a short story by\nWashington Irving. And since that story is so short, we are also reading\nRebecca, By: Daphne du Maurier<\/a>.\nMy husband and I read Sleepy Hollow together in two nights. It was beautiful\nwriting, but nothing like the gory or scary I was expecting like from the\nmovie. I started reading Rebecca yesterday, and oh man am I hooked. Read it\nwith me! Hello Cleo Followers! Sorry I didn\u2019t post in September; it was a crazy month. My husband and I were optimistic enough to bring our two young sons, ages 20 months and 4 years old, on a 17-day adventure to England and France. We took lots of pictures of us smiling at all the amazing sites, … <\/p>\n
\nI am happy to be getting back into my routine, especially since I’ve made so\nmuch more time to write. I’d say I am only a couple months away from having my\nfirst rough draft of the second Cleo book! I’m so excited. Keep in touch for\nmore updates.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"