Simple Things

It was a glorious fall weekend! Those kind of beautiful days that are still warm, but not too warm. The trees are changing color, the evenings are cool, and pumpkins and mums decorate houses. The light has changed and slants somehow from a different angle. I absolutely love driving down a country road and that moment when falling leaves are hit by sunlight that is golden . . . I can actually hear Vivaldi’s Four Seasons playing in my head!

Le husband and I took a road trip home this beautiful weekend to celebrate our nephew’s thirteenth birthday. We sat outside around a fire pit and roasted marshmallow’s while the kids sang along to some of their favorite pop/rap songs . . . what they lack in ability they make up for in enthusiasm! It was fun catching up with everyone and listening to stories about recent events in everyone’s lives and some of the remember-when-we-did-such-and-such stories. I like to step back at these get togethers and just listen to all the different conversations happening at once, people laughing, kids playing . . . the general buzz of a group of people happy to see one another.

It may be a cliché to say it’s the simple things in life that make us happy, but this weekend it certainly was true!