the glittered nest

Fall and Chalkboard paint

I know I have said this before but I LOVE THE FALL!

I love buying magazines with pictures of pumpkins

I love pumpkin spice coffee....really anything pumpkin!

I bought fire logs the other day

why...because they were available

yeah...it's still in the high 80's here..a girl can dream can't she!

I love the fact that my children want to stay out and play all night long

I love doing crafts with my kids when it involves all the things they love about Halloween!

Here's something I just created in my kitchen that you must incorporate into yours:

A blackboard!

All I did was paint the side of my cabinets with chalkboard paint.(craft store)

My kids are constantly drawing on it!

 
Abby loves to write poems on it

 
Brock pretty much scribbles all over Abby's poems...but she doesn't mind(most of the time)

 
Madi likes to write me messages on them!

The best part of Fall is seeing the joy in my children's faces as the season changes and

celebrations begin.  Fall always reminds me of getting off the bus the first day of October and running

home to see the Halloween decorations my mom always put up in the windows on our front porch.

I hope my children have wonderful memories of seasons changing as I do...

Do you have a special memory of Fall? 

 

 

Birthday Bliss

Today is my birthday and I am so thankful for everything God has given me in my life. 

38 today!

I wanted to share some pics of what is going on today.

 
I'm definitely not dusting anything today...cobwebs are building up on my furniture..hehe

 
I'm not calling an exterminator even though I have spiders!

 
More dust...my sister thinks I forget to  dust...she's right!!!

 
This little black crow is making a home on my porch!

 

My daughter Abby has drawn a halloween family picture on our ever changing blackboard.

Thank you mom for my roses!  They make me smile everyday!

 

Another reason God has blessed me:

 
Thank you everyone for making my birthday wonderful!