Fall Decorating

Well we finally decorated for Fall yesterday. Yes, October is practically over, but atleast November will look a bit like Thanksgiving in our home. I love Fall, but I like my house the way it is everyday, without the clutter of extra things laying around. With the construction, I felt like adding one more thing inside our house was going to put me over the edge. But then the kids asked me last week, "when are we going to decorate our house like (then they named all of their friends whose houses were decorated)?" Well I gave in without me naming all of the people that I know have not decorated. So, out came all of the stuffed pumpkins, the scarecrows, the Indian corn, the turkeys and every other orange item that was in the boxes marked "Fall". Now that it is done, I am glad that we did it. It is nice to have a touch of Fall at our house. Considering outside doesn't look like it. (We do not rake our tree that loses its leaves until December!) As the years go by it does get a lot easier decorating, now that Paige can unpack everything and the boys can set the item where it belongs. And I have loosened up over the years about having everything "in its place." I have come to realize that the window clings are not going look like a beautiful Fall scene when the kids put them on. In fact, half of the little Fall critters will be upside down and there will still be 3 of the clings stuck together, but that is alright. It is not about perfection.