This week I got crafty. No, I still haven’t found a proper thrifted painting for the ghost challenge, this was something else. I worked on a different Halloween project I’d been meaning to do which led me to thinking about the 3 phases of every DIY project. The first step is always the scariest. The fear about whether or not you’re making a mistake and forging ahead anyway. The panic when you’re halfway through and you’re terrified that you have indeed made a huge mistake but the only way to know for absolute certain is to press forward and see it through to the end. Luckily for me, this time it turned out okay.

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Somehow I found myself out at the swamp for a haunted hike because they had snake and alligators and also candy stations, what more could any child want? Mosquito spray is the answer. With summer in the rearview, all her accoutrement has been more or less set aside and the bug spray was completely forgotten about. A mistake, dear reader, that shan’t be repeated again.

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There’s so much coming up over the next couple of weeks! Some fun Halloween adventures, another family dinner, our fall family photoshoot, and the big day itself. Fall is my absolute favorite season, hands down. Has been my whole life. I’m hoping time will do an impossible thing and slow down but I won’t be holding my breath. The days are long and the years are short they say. They, whoever they are, are right. It was just September and now it’s already mid-October and it doesn’t let up. Thanksgiving and Christmas come barreling in right after. I just want to bottle time or at the very least slow it and that as it turns out, is impossible. I will just have to learn to slow myself.