I am challenging myself to enjoy the beauty of the season, which is really difficult for some reason. I think it’s because for me, the changing of the weather and the changing of the leaves means that winter is on its way. And we all know how much I love winter, right? Do I need to remind anyone? Well, just in case, and because I know it will be a recurring theme over the coming months, let me just go ahead and say it – I hate winter. This fall, however, I’m working on living in the moment which means enjoying the colors and sensations of autumn for their own virtue and not looking ahead to the impending coldness that is sure to follow.
For that reason, I have scheduled a lot of fall activities for myself and the kids, and hope that getting out and about and appreciating the awesomeness of the season will help with the living-for-today. This week, we’re vising the Renaissance Festival close to Dayton (www.renfestival.com) which I’m sure the boys will love! Castles and jousting and a pirate ship invasion and such, oh my! Hopefully the weather will be nice and the mommy will be feeling good.
Then, we have the Bob Evans Farm Festival at the original Bob Evans farm in Rio Grande, only an hour or so from us and a great time last year. The youngest 2 especially enjoy this sort of thing, and we might go just the three of us. Lots of apple cider and down home cooking and horse rides and hay rides and things of that nature.
We’re going here:
http://www.sweetapplefarm.com/
later in the month. Check that link out and go to the corn mazes, they are unbelievable! I don’t think we’ll be able to make it all the way through the maze, as it says they are up to 5 miles long, but I think we’ll be able to enjoy a lot of it anyway. My 5yo loves mazes and he is sooooooo excited about this outing! It’s hard to find a corn maze that’s not a Haunted Halloweeen maze, which he’s not interested in because of the scary factor but this? This is perfect and when he looked at the pictures of previous mazes he got SO EXCITED!
We also went for our first geocaching in the new area just the other day, and logged two in the rain! 
That’s our first one. Taken here, at Seip Mound:
Hopefully these activities will remind me that fall is perfectly enjoyable, and today is a beautiful day. I’ll try to get some pictures from our walk here in a few minutes of the bike trail where we walk with our doggie every day. It really is quite beautiful.
