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I wanted y'all to see that I was true to my word. Despite the Christmas holiday temptations spread out before me at Michael's yesterday, I did stick to my original plan to buy fall foliage for the mantle. I like the end result. My next step is to buy gourds and pumpkins a squash to fill my horn-o'-plenty. This will probably wait until later in the week. My 4th graders are painting pumpkins on Friday. The fact that Halloween falls on a school day this year and we don't have the day off seems to have become a huge crisis for them. Hopefully the painting of pumpkins will ease that painful blow a little (she says hopefully). Meanwhile, our average temperatures still remain in the 70s. *Sigh* This is my second year in this sort of climate and I'm still not quite used to it.

Kevin had to work today, and left at 6:45 this morning. This meant that we couldn't complete our Sunday routine of church and then lunch out. This tradition began over a year ago, right after we moved down here and before we were married. Much of our weekends used to spent on wedding planning and so Sunday was church and then lunch before tackling the problem/decision of the week. Gradually, the wedding work became less and less and, since our marriage in July, has now disappeared completely. However, I look upon our Sunday tradition as one of the high points of the week. There's a definite void when we have to cancel that time.

On the other hand, with Kevin gone, I did my 3 hours of lesson planning and schoolwork that always encompasses my Sunday afternoon. Now, I think, it's time for a run to Walmart for those "we need" things that I always forget when I'm normally out. When did I turn into an adult? Sunday afternoons used to be for play, without any thought of the upcoming week. Not so anymore....