fall crisp

In the summer I just could not get enough of summer.  LOVING every minute of the sun and heat and all that good stuff.  Then the pregnancy yuck hit and I, well....... I didn't like anything.  The sick-y feeling  colored the rest of the summer, painting it in a not-so-great shade of yuck.

So maybe that's part of why I'm so grateful, so excited, so delighted with our fall.  This morning was one of those perfect fall mornings that could best be described as 'crisp'.  After two rainy/misty days the fall crisp was even more delightful.... and we were outside in a hurry.

I had a few piles of veggies to buy before I could fill the crock pot for tonight's dinner (4 of Matt's buddies joining us).  Seriously, with years of feeding college guys under my belt, I'm sure not much about my kids' teenage appetites will surprise me - except maybe that I have to prep that much food every night! 

And just because the blue sky beckoned and I grabbed the camera on the way out the door - this is part of my "commute" to buy veggies.

Our walk cuts through a neighboring apartment complex filled with delightful little paths and gardens.

Why go the most direct route when the day is perfectly crisp anyways? 

And in the same spirit of 'why be in a hurry when you can just go slow?' we stopped to ride the toys -

A list of all the things my kids have taught me could fill pages and pages of paper.  One of them is certainly this:  JUST SLOW DOWN.  Life is not meant to be lived in a hurry.

Today I was so glad to be moving slow.