Hello, Friends! 🍂✨🍁 My kids and I did some much needed yard/deck garden cleanup as well as a foul pile in our basement. 🙄🫣🤣 Feels so good to have it done! ☑️ Today is a gorgeous gray, fallish type of day with a gentle, breeze swirling the leaves. 🍂 We aren’t huge Halloween 👻 celebrators, but I did use a few stickers in my to-do list!

I’m loving working on my list, because now that those two big projects are done, I can turn to journals, penpals, and READING plans/crafting! Squee!

Starting setting up my new 2027 Daily Pocket Moleskine! I glue a lot of the pages they have in front together and use them for my purposes and will seasonally decorate the month pages. I don’t usually pre-decorate the daily pages unless I know I’m going on a trip etc! I love the little touch of creativity waiting for me each morning. ☕️

Letters going out to pen pals !! and if I could just find my packing tape, I could finish a package and letter! 😂🙄😡 I am slowly catching up and I’m so excited because I have a few new penpals in my list next! 💌📬

I’m finalizing my thoughts on Victober 2026 and hope to come back soon to chat a bit about what I read! Spoiler, I had a WONDERFUL Victober! So thankful! 🥹

Homeschooling is going pretty well, thank God! A few adjustments here or there, but we are getting into a groove. My oldest/senior took a duel enrollment class and did well! Sound Foundations dyslexia curriculum is going well for my current two dyslexics! I finished A Lion to Guard Us with one of my youngers and it brought back memories of reading it with my 21 yo old! 🥹🥹🥹 We are actually really enjoying Colonial/American Revolutionary time period. It’s a newer batch of kids this time through! 😂 The Chronicles of Narnia has been such a blessing AGAIN.

I have lots of little reading plans and hopeful ideas and dreams for writing and creating in the new coming year. Isn’t it lovely to have something to look forward to? ☺️😍😌 How are you? Anything new and neat you are creating, planning, or dreaming of? I’d love to hear! 🎃✨