Boys—sometimes you just have to laugh and throw up your hands.

Fall is my FAVORITE season. I was married in October, I love hot apple cider and making pumpkin pies. My husband loves pumpkin pie and asks every year who made the rule that it is only a fall dessert–LOL I love sweatshirts and jeans and walking in the leaves. It’s a time of reflection and shedding of all the outward beauty. AHHH Fall.

I love Fall! Enjoying the beautiful colors during car trips is one of my favorite activities or hiking in the crisp weather. I love al things pumpkin…..pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin smoothies, pumpkin pancakes….you get the point. Add 1/3 c of canned pumpkin to your pancake recipe or cooked oatmeal. Delicious!!

Yay! Anything to do with fall is my absolute FAVORITE! What a great idea!

P.S. Your son sounds a lot like mine!! Too funny!

I loved your son’s response to the T/F questions! That’s probably better than a response of “What does T and F stand for?” I’m homeschooling my 6th grade daughter and love it. It definitely challenging at times, and I freak out now-and-then thinking I’m not doing enough; but overall it’s such a wonderful experience!!! We only do one year (long story), but it works out just great!
And yes, Fall is wonderful – especially in the Midwest!!! I love this time of year!!!!!

I love the crispness in the air. It just smells of fall! The best thing about this time of year is the crockpot and soups are once again in season! Here’s an easy pink chili for the crockpot. Take 1 jar great nothern beans, one jar salsa and one block of montery jack cheese chopped, cook on low all day (or till cheese melts). Serve with warm bread, ymmm! Now that’s fall!

My husband & I both were born in October so it has been a special month for us. We look forward to the cooler weather, the changing leaves here in the mountains and the fog that rolls through. There’s nothing like pumpkin and apple pie made from scratch the way Grandma makes it. We look forward to the aroma that fills our home while cooking fall favorites. I look out the window and see all the colors and it brings back memories of growing up in my Grandmother’s home, playing in the leaves and swinging on the front porch with her while she read the Bible and we children were wrapped in a blanket. Fall always reminds me of her, one of Gods best ladies.

Autumn is positively my favorite time of year. For me, it’s the time of new beginnings far more than the new year in January. It’s yellow school buses, ribbons of road pasted with wet leaves for driving adventures, stands of oaks and maples, arms crossed like soldiers. Sharpened pencils, new notebooks [brings out the writer in me] and cinnamon, pumpkin scents. It is nostalgic and crisp; reflective and cozy.

Hi Karen!!
This is the first time I have been on your site and I am excited!
One of my favorite things about fall taking my boys to pick out pumpkins and go to Uncle Johns to get cider and donuts…they truly are the best there!! I also LOVE lighting candles that smell like pumpkin pie, or apple cider…yummy!

Howdy friend! Well Fall used to be my favorite time of year before moving to Florida…now it is one of my favorite memories!! Fall is probably the time is miss the most in Michigan, the smell of the leaves; walking in the field or the woods without fear of being attacked by a gator or huge snake! Weekly trips to Uncle Johns! I am about to decorate for the fall this week and it certainly stirs up memories; but I think I will just drown them by jumping in the pool!! Have a great day!!

I love fall. I love going for drives and looking at the leaves. I love going camping in the fall and sitting around a campfire. It is one of my favorite times of the year.

Man, I just love that our Creator would bless us with such a deep & beautiful season right before the long cold dark winter days come, which seem neverending!
I take the kids to pick their pumpkin: if they can carry it, then it’s theirs. The first day of fall is filled with apple foods, cider in our special autumn mugs, and a walk in the forest preserve to see if we can spot any leaves changing color.
I love seasons where I can hibernate in my home with a mug, cozy socks & sweaters & blankets with yummy candles burning.

My favorite fall memory is getting married the Saturday before Thanksgiving nearly 24 years ago. We honeymooned in historic St. Augustine, Florida, and enjoyed our Thanksgiving feast at a French restaurant there.

Last year, I created a photo blog post on our autumn decorations. You can find it here: http://virginiaknowles.blogspot.com/2008/09/easy-autumn-decorating-on-dime.html

My favorite part of fall is bon-fires. I just love sitting around a warm bon-fire and relaxing with friends. Can’t forget the smores.

Favorite Fall Memory:

I remember raking leaves with Mom and Dad. Then we would leap into the piles and throw leaves at one another! We did eventually clean up the leaves. I still love the smell of fall, leaves, and marshmallows roasting over the fire. Fall is also a great time of reflection for me as I watch the leaves change and prepare for winter.

First of all, I am also homeschooling an 11 year old boy, and can I really RELATE with you. My daughters are 23 & 25. He was my big-surprise-no-its-not-menopause baby at age 41.
Anyways….I started homeschooling in 1996. Fall became a favorite with us, because we didn’t have the dreaded start of school issue. We live in Western NY State. If the weather cooperates, we just love to ride on the back roads and absorb the beautiful colors. Fall also signifies fall festivals with pumpkins, apples, grapes, cider & donuts (and many other goodies!)

I can also relate, Karen, to your missing Kenzie. My 23 daughter was married at age 21. She still lives in the same town as myself, but what a melancholy time. I cried for quite a few months every time I walked into her old bedroom – what a sappy mom I can be! Guess it is cause I am mostly Italian!

I love Fall, all of the beautiful colors, cooler weather, except we don’t get much of that in the Houston, TX area! I can dream though.I love to bake my grandmother’s pumpkin pie, gather with friends and family for football, foo, fun & fellowship. Keep posting pictures of what Fall really looks like!

I love fall! I love all the harvesty things that go with it, and when I was a kid, that meant spending a lot of time in the kitchen. I loved helping Mom peel apples and run the food mill to can applesauce – there’s nothing better than sweet, homemade applesauce. Homemade pumpkin pie is good, too, and after my great-grandmother taught me how to make pie crust her way, my mom and I would work together to make the pies for Thanksgiving. I’d make the crust, and my mom would make her mother’s tricky pumpkin filling. Even now, as soon as the weather starts to cool and leaves begin falling, I head to the market to get a bushel of apples and start making pies. Yum!

What a great blog, including two of my favorite things – fall and boys! That comment by your son cracked me up! And the fall crafts by McKenzie made me teary and led me to pray for you guys! melanie

Fall … The crackle of a fire, the crunch of leaves under foot, the harvest sky, watching cherub children take a running leap as they jump high into the autumn air, and land with a swoosh in the mile high fragrant scarlet & gold leaves, topped off with a nice bowl of pumpkin soup, a swig of cider, and some cinnamon dusted donuts. That’s my picture of fall — a bowl of yum. Thank you Karen, for reminding all of us of the joys of fall. Bless.

Too funny about the RO and BC options. I love a windy, blustery Pooh-type day in the fall. Kicking through leaves with my jacket collar turned up gets all the cobwebs out of my brain and, cold nose and ear tips nothwithstanding, gets me all set for the best time of the year.

Karen, I adore fall. When we lived in Arizona for five years we yearned to experience the wonders of Fall. To witness the changes in the color of foliage and then to see the trees shed those leaves and prepare for a season of rest. Fall always reminds me of the seasons of life and what beauty comes in the Spring along with the changes that God has made in my life.

Love to you and thank you for your ministry!

My favorite thing about fall is the beautiful oranges and reds of the leaves. I also like raking big piles of leaves and jumping in them with my kiddos. I also really enjoy making soups, chili,and muffins so at the first hint of cooler air, I am ready to make fall food! In fact we had roasted vegetable soup and bran muffins for supper tonight. Yummy! The soup is really easy to make. You just roast any veggies you like in a 425 degree oven for about 25 min. I toss them with olive oil and course salt first. Then put them in a large pot with 1 qt. chicken stock and 2-4 cups chicken broth. Simmer for about 30 minutes. Sometimes I puree the soup so I can hide things like rutabega! Tonights soup was made with leftover veggies from Monday night! Super easy and quite delicious!

I love fall with its crisp breezes and beautiful colors. I just hope it lasts awhile since I heard it is supposed to snow Tuesday! I heard you at Hearts at Home this past weekend and I just wanted to say “thank you for sharing”. I was so encouraged to know that other people go through the ups and downs, too. Thank you for being real and sharing from your heart.

My favorite fall recipe is definitely pumpkin oatmeal — I love adding canned pumpkin and chocolate chips to my oatmeal. A tasty (if a little decadent) way to start a morning

Hi,
This is my first visit here and I see this fantabulous give away. The lip gloss and candles sound especially scrumptious.
Please enter me in the drawing.
My favorite part of autumn is that we get rain, precious rain. Where I live we get no rain in summer, and today I eagerly await rain forecast for early next week.
The air will smell so good and rain is God’s way of washing all the plants and trees which I love. Everything including the air will be so clean after a rain.

Ditto to all of those above….I love fall!!!! …the leaves, the crisp air, family memories and the changing of another season….. Which in turn brings my focus back to God and how he is changing me and others everyday…..sometimes it’s a bold change like the red in maple leaves …. sometimes is like the amber ones… quitely being molded to be more like him…. what a wonderful God that gives us such variety and knows that, as long as we are on this earth, we are have room in our lives for a little change.

I love that fall is the start of soup season! Soup is just so warm and cozy. I also love the changing colors of the leaves. The most beautiful leaves I’ve seen are on the East Coast. I wish I could get there again in the fall to see them.

I love making smores on the deck over our firepit! It brings the kids together (at 14 and 22 that’s not always easy!) and is a great way to invite neighbors over and re-connect. I, too, love the cool mornings and evenings – so refreshing after a sometimes too hot summer!

Love the smell of fall!

Shannon

Fall is my favorite time of the year! The leaves expressing God’s delight in color – the fresh breezes with a nip in the air –
My husband, son-n-love, have the same birthday Oct 20,
My # 1 grandson is on Oct 26, and mine is Oct 30 – it is a full month for us! Of course by the time the boys get through celebrating – mine is a “we love you mom and gramma!” – which is really what I want the most anyway – is their love!
As the fall leaves fall it is also a reminder that it is time to let some things go – because God has promised he will bring new things in the spring. He is just so serendipitious like that!