There is always something so rejuvenating, so fantastic, so simple, so crisp about October. There is still really good fruit from summer, apples are abundant and delicious, pumpkin donuts and pumpkin bread, jeans and a sweatshirt, cozy up with the windows still open, beautiful michigan colors everywhere you drive, incredible harvest sunsets and sunrises, long early morning runs that remind me of some important ladies in my life, and heartfelt reminders that God is present every single place we turn.
October is truly magical, great things are always in store in October for no other reason then the fact that God created this season to be the introduction to gatherings, community, food, love, and restoration.
First and Foremost, the OFFICIAL Autumn MUST do:
Buy a celebratory bag of candy corn in honor of the change of seasons (yearly tradition), even though it is 4 days late, I got mine tonight and it tasted so DELICIOUS.
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So in honor of October, it is essential to make a to-do list. There are only 31 days... So I have to get going.
A (*) is by those things I have yet to do in my lifetimes of Octobers but have recently thought of or always wanted to do.
- Candy corn on the first day of Autumn
- Make Mom's pumpkin bread
- Get in a 10+ miler
- Rake leaves and JUMP in them
- Take a nature walk and document with photographs (last year I was in Bath and Lansing)
- Drive to the top of the Shaw Ramp at MSU and look at all the trees
- Press the first three leaves I find (orange, yellow, red)
- Learn to make pie *
- Learn to make Katie's apple cookies*
- Go canoeing/kayaking*
- Tailgate at a MSU football game
- Carve pumpkins
- Bonfire and Apple cider
- See some Trick-or-Treaters (haven't done this in a few years)
- Enjoy the homecoming festivities of the Bath Community*
- Drive up to Grand Haven and watch the sunset over Lake Michigan*
- Pick my own apples (not just Meijers, haven't done this since I was 5)*
- Go to a Corn maze* (never done this...crazy I know!)
- tall nonfat no whip Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks :]
2 comments:
you know, I hear Naperville is great in the month of October :)
OCTOBER IS MY FAVORITE MONTH TOO!
:)
this is why we are friends.
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