Love: The Simple Things in Life

The simple things in life. That is what I love.

Carolyn hiding behind an awesome mermaid creation

Eleanor and her lima bean plant she grew from seed

Friends: Grant, Eleanor, and Carson. I love their friendship!

More art from Carolyn

Hank gnawing a Wheatberry rib

Carolyn's picture of her and Aunt Hanna. She's been drawing a lot of pictures of Aunt Hanna.

The necklace, earrings, and card that Eleanor picked out herself for my birthday.

And the new Corgi puppies!!!

Eleanor's First Piano Recital

Eleanor has been taking piano lessons since February. She does a wonderful job and her skill and confidence and enjoyment of playing are continually growing. In October, she had her first recital. She played "Gliding" solo and "What a Song" together with her teacher, Miss Abby. And she was so lucky that Aunt Shea and Uncle Pat were in town and able to see her play.

 She was poised and confident and played perfectly! We were oh so very proud of this little lady!

Our Search For The Great Pumpkin

 

One of our favorite fall activities, getting pumpkins. Specifically from Blue Jay Farms. Sadly, we learned that this will be our last year going there. They are retiring so we will need to find a new favorite pumpkin patch.

  And now carved!

IU Girls Weekend in Bloomington

As tradition would have it, some of my IU girlfriends and I were able to reunite. This year, sans kids and husbands for a girls weekend in our old stomping grounds! We tried to re-do it, college style. We mixed cocktails in the back of my car and put them in Red Solo cups and we took in a rainy game. And the Hoosiers knocked off Penn State for the first time in history.

Hoosiers: 42, Nitany Lions: 24

Thankful to see my little sissy at her sorority house!

After touring Emma's sorority house, we went out, to take on Bloomington! We enjoyed a fantastic meal at Uptown Cafe. We chatted, we were served upscale drinks, we had a grand time. And during this time we soon came to realize we were 35 years old and getting beer sloshed on us, stepping on a sticky floor, yelling over loud music and drinking cheap drinks somewhere lost its appeal. So we stayed put and had more $10 martinis and enjoyed each others company. Why? Because we could.

"Sex And The City" as deemed by our favorite Uptown bartender, Logan

And to end the weekend on an upscale note, we bypassed Denny's and had a fantastic breakfast at FARM Bloomington.

Breakfast at FARM Bloomington

October School Happenings: Star Student, School Farm Apple Field Trip, and the Homecoming Parade

My Star Student and she's proud of it!

Eleanor's class took an apple pickin' juice makin' field trip and I was able to chaperone. I was excited for my first experience at the School Farm.

Picking the free apples - the ones that had already fallen

Eleanor and her friend, Jailey, hauling the apples

Eleanor and Jailey getting photographed by Mr. Miller

The School Farm!

Scrubbing the apples before crushing them for their juice

And now for the crushing! With Mr. Nixon helping demonstrate.

This year the homecoming parade's theme was Around the World and Moccasin School represented France. They made a cute "Le Buck Cafe" and "Eiffel Tower" float and the kids wore mustaches, berets and scarves. So cute!

Hank took candy collecting seriously, as you can see by his heaping brown lunch sack full of sugary goodness! He came home later asking for his bag of candy, claiming, "It's very special to me".