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Fall Festivities at the Pumpkin Patch

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The colors and activities of fall are always so wonderful to capture! I feel blessed to live where there are seasonal changes that allow us to capture great outdoor pictures with vibrant hues of yellows, oranges, and reds! This past weekend we went out to Pinehaven Farm to enjoy their fall activities and go out to their pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins!

We had two of our daughters, and their daughters, Princess 1 (14 years old) and Princess 2 (five), with us. The girls decorated small pumpkins as pirates and cats with little sets of adhesive foam cutouts. What a great idea to decorate with stick-ons so that your little pumpkins will last till Halloween and not deteriorate by carving too soon.

A farm has to have animals to be complete, right? Their animals seem like a combination of “regular” farm animals and a zoo. There were miniature horses, (I think I would own one if I was in the country again!) goats with the cutest babies, emus, yaks, sheep, geese, a llama, peacocks….. I don’t even remember what else! Princess 2 was always in a rush to see the next animals before the rest of us were ever finished looking at the ones we were standing in front of.

We rode tractor pulled wagons out the pumpkin patch. Princess 2 barely got off the wagon and found her perfect pumpkin before everyone had even gotten off the wagon. In fact she had to wait for everyone to get off the wagon before racing back up the steps.  She set her pumpkin on her seat and got back down to find another one. We all had fun looking at different shapes and sizes and picking out some other pumpkins. There was some surprise as to how prickly the stems and vines still on the ground were. I heard “Ouch!” more than once.  When we got back to the wagon, Princess 2 spread her arms out, looking around saying, “My pumpkin is gone!” With years of experience under our belts, we braced ourselves to deal with what could be devastation. What were we thinking? She jumped back off the wagon and found another perfect pumpkin just steps away, and quickly climbed back up the steps to take her seat on the wagon. Whew… it’s so nice to have people with a pleasant attitudes!

 

Making Time for Yourself

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I am always amazed at how quickly time passes.  Whether we are enjoying what we are doing or just muddling through, time slips by day-by-day, moment-by-moment.

I have so many interests and so many things I want to do!  I find it hard to work them in to the time I have, or don’t have (however you want to look at it!).  Where do I start?  If I start one thing, I feel that something else has been put on a back burner, or ignored.  Is that okay?  Who gets to decide which things move to the back?  I’m sure I am not alone in this feeling, yet it’s not something I hear other people speak about very often.  I’m afraid each person feels they are all alone, and it is their own little struggle deep inside.

Perhaps there are things that SHOULD go the back of the line, or maybe even be deleted from our lists of to-do’s!  I hope that many of you will join me this year and just DO some of the things you WANT to do!  Perhaps you will come across something you enjoy even more than you thought you would and surprise yourself at how good you are at it!

Have you considered the possibility that God has planted the seeds of some of those thoughts?  We often spend so much time fighting off human desires that we forget to listen to the whispers of our Creator — whispering to us to nurture the seeds of greatness he has already planted within our existence!

I urge you to not wait weeks or months, but to take some sort of action towards one of your want to-do’s in the next few days.  Join me and change one of those into a will do now!

  1. Decide what your will-do is.
  2. Decide when you will do it.  Get it on your calendar so you can schedule and make the time for it.
  3. Get ready to do it!  Do you need to gather some supplies, or take care of something that has been keeping you from your will-do?
    • If there is something that has been standing in your way, make a plan for how you will take care of it.  Perhaps some of your first steps in the next few days will be to address this portion of your preparation.

I have a new painting I WILL get done this week.  What will you get started on?

“You said to me,”I will point out the road that you should follow. I will be your teacher and watch over you.”  Psalms 32:8 CEV