Do you smell the Fall around us? This morning, I woke up and from the barely open window I smelled that cold, fresh, earthy, sweet, crisp, colored in orange, sleep-inviting and love-to-cuddle-under-blanket smell of Autumn. I didn't want to move from bed, just close eyes, pull up the blanket to my nose and pretend I was still sleeping, smelling Fall. Ahhhhh...October is almost here and that is the best month to sleep...did I mentioned I LOVE to sleep? How to make sleep inviting? A bit of cold, clean sheets with a soft smell of fresh laundry, a pillow that has still room to squish under your head, warm up your cold feet by touching someone with warm flesh beside you, Fall smell and something good to think about inside your head.
When I think of Fall, is all orange and dark redish colored, cooking with pumpkins, smell like cinnamon, dressed up with jackets and driving with the heater turned a bit up, eat chestnuts while watching chick flick movies that make my cry.
Fall begins with my nephew's birthday, then my father, then my daughter, then my wedding anniversary, then 80% of my friends birthdays, then Halloween, then my birthday, then a whole bunch of my cousins birthdays, the Thanksgiving somewhere in between. All this before the horrible mess of Christmass begins is like the calm before the storm. Did I mentioned that Thanksgiving is the only North American holiday that makes sense to me and I actually like to celebrate?
December makes me depressed. If I will ever kill myself, it will be in December. Until then, please let me enjoy the Fall with all it brings to me! Smell deep and Happy Fall!
