My mom reminded me today that I hadn't posted to the blog for some time. She is right. Life seems to just whiz by. Many evenings I collapse into bed after a long day at work, chasing the Empress to her various after school activities, followed by an evening of cooking, cleaning, off tune violin and first grade chapter books. My life is full. Brimming really. But, satisfying. Just sometimes my forty something body has a tough time doing the job of a twenty something working mom. But my lame excuses aside, enjoy our fall recap in pictures.
With more sadness than I will ever be able to express, we said goodbye to our beloved Matisse on October 14th. We all miss her terribly and our family has an enormous hole that can never be filled. We love you Toot!! In an effort to numb our pain and provide our little killa Attila the pug (who still looks for Tisse) some companionship, we added some adorable kitties to our nest. Harriet and Hennigan are sweet kitties. Grayson is a super mommy to her kitties. Despite being somewhat tentative towards them in the beginning, Grayson is beginning to hold and pet them. She feeds and waters them twice a day and keeps their cat box clean.
We made our annual trip to Sweet Pickins. It is a magical little farm complete with pumpkins, farm animals, corn maze, a train, go carts and a huge jumping pillow. Autumn heaven.
We carved lots of pumpkins this year. Mommy became obsessed with roasted pumpkin seeds. Yum-O! I believe at last count we carved 10 pumpkins.
T was gone this year for Halloween. He was in Mumbai, India for the week. We missed him, but soldiered on. Our sweet friend Sheri went Trick or Treating with us and we treated her to a Morstein tradition - Mummy dogs. Yes. Mummy dogs. Yum.
For the most part, with the exception to losing Matisse, this fall has been great. Lots of fun. Greer loved Halloween. Didn't quite understand ringing someone's door and not going in to their houses. He attempted several times. There were several occasions when he was nearly pushed out of houses. Funny. Grayson went as Mulan. She was stunning. She was also very driven. I nearly had to run to keep up with her.
Happy Fall!
