autumn

The school year came rushing at me sometime in mid-August and I haven't quite gotten my footing yet.  I've been doubled up with work and now that both school years have started, it's a lot of nights on the couch with laptops and notebooks and piles of statistics homework to grade (his, not mine).  There's usually a glass of wine, and also sunflower seeds. 

An autumn to-do list:
/ apple-picking at the orchard where we got our wedding donuts
/ host more friends, now that we finally have the space to do so
/ make our favorite squash soups and maybe even coq au vin
/ change over closets to sweater season
/ return to Ithaca
/ celebrate one year married
/ surprise someone
/ secretly start listening to Christmas music, sometime just after Halloween