"celebration season"

One of our first students, Marina, told me the second year she lived here that from Halloween until New Year's day was "celebration season" - that the whole of these 2 months were a run together of happy events.  As a child, the weeks from Halloween until New Years seem as long as the endless summers on the other end of the year. Now... they are a run together.  But in our house they are a run together of beautiful.  Why not celebrate for an entire 2 months of the year? Why not carve out a giant section of the year to be intentionally creative, hilarious, thankful, generous and gracious?  I cannot for the life of me think of a reason to not "celebrate" for the rest of 2014.

So - the rest of FHSU starts "celebrations" at Octoberfest... and apparently this newspaper clipping shows a sobriety test being given in our drive way.  I think we slept through that.  And we probably miss the 100s of others given there while we carry on with life...

Like tonight's celebration of the beginning of "celebration season"

Or our "goodbye" celebration to Grace, Daniel, and Noah... :(

Or maybe we were busy watching the backyard fungus grow...

or on a field trip...

Or maybe we were trying on a wig...

Or doing some crafts while we pass a month of illness

Or maybe we were on a pumpkin patch/corn maze/haunted house road trip

Or... carving a pumpkin

Or costuming...

it's what we do best...

well... it's what Grandma Joan does BEST

We just do a lot of it :)

Ahhh.... 703 Fort.

So much to celebrate here...

And just a little reminder to me: 

Don't Blink.