Cinnamon Hen's Autumn Day

Cinnamon Hen

Every fall for the past six years I subjected countless primary school students to this darling little story about a hen who loves to rake the leaves.  It just didn't seem like autumn until I (or my dear TA who was forced) read it aloud.  This fall, instead of sharing the Cinnamon Hen with literally hundreds of other peoples' children, I have been living it with my own.  In the past five days the leaves have become brilliant around our house on the lake.  It is breathtaking. Littleman and I have been raking, but purely for 

Kick

entertainment purposes.  We have done loads of fall crafts, gluing fallen leaves to just about everything.  We flew a kite over the weekend, threw rotten apples from the apple tree down the hill, ran after geese loitering by the lake, and hiked in the woods looking for elephants (I keep telling him he'll have more success looking for squirrels and birds, but he's two.)

I am loving every minute of this stay-at-home-business...well...I'm not saying I love the minutes when Littleman is dropping his Cheerios all over the living room carpet just to get a rise out of me or the minutes when he's fighting his nap.  I am saying that I LOVE being the one who is there for it all and not having to pay other people $165 a week to laugh at his mischievous little face with a hand full of Cheerios behind his back.  (Note: Not that the people who were once paid in the very recent past to love my little boy weren't wonderful...)

I have guilt issues, though.  Papa Bear is working SO hard.  I feel like I've worked my butt off for the past two years for this great reward and Papa Bear has worked his butt off...so he can go to work.  It doesn't seem fair.  I am grateful for this time to be a mother.  Truly grateful.  Now I just have to work on getting good at it.  

Pumpkin

Oh, and here's the update:

We found an amazing home to rent very close to Papa Bear's parents, sister, and, of course, the gym I am planning to join within the hour of arriving in town.  We are lucky to have his parents who went house hunting for us and found this gem.  Our lease begins on November 12...I'm sure those of you who are interested will get some sort of snail mail notification of our new address.  The house is in a neighborhood with playgrounds, pools, walking/biking paths, and lots of trees (rare in this part of town).  The home is big and we'll have a guest room, PLEASE VISIT.

On a final note, even though it took 45 minutes to get him to settle down, my Littleman has been napping for an hour and I am most grateful for that.  :)

Fallbear

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