Seasons.
This week’s blog group topic is courtesy of Mr. Greg. He asks, “So what is your favorite season and why? What memories does the weather draw up? What are your favorite favorite season activities?”
My favorite season is fall. I find it incredibly romantic. There’s something about the changing leaves and crispness in the air that just makes me want to put on a cozy sweater and walk through a forest preserve with B, hand in hand. It makes me want to leave the windows open, cuddle underneath a big blanket and listen to the wind blowing through the trees. Not to mention that my favorite holiday of all time is (and has always been) Halloween.
B proposed to me on Halloween of 2006.
One year later on Halloween of 2007, we were packing up every single suitcase that we owned plus 7 gigantic boxes to leave for Mexico the next morning…for 2 weeks…for our wedding and honeymoon.
The following year on Halloween of 2008, we were awaiting the arrival of our niece and nephew, who ended up entering this world just a few days later. We went to a haunted house with me dressed up (and speaking like) a redneck man, complete with flannel button down opened to a t-shirt with naked ladies, a florescent orange trucker hat, cowboy boots and ripped jeans. I wore a fake mustache and tucked my hair up. We went out in public and I was rude, inappropriate and deserving of a swift kick in the mouth. It was AWESOME.
And Halloween of 2009? We were back at the same place where we got married in Mexico for our babymoon and I was about 4.5 months pregnant with S.
When I think back about Halloween, I remember myself walking around my old neighborhood in Chicago in a Luke Skywalker costume. It was one of those vinyl costumes from the 80′s with the plastic mask that you purchased in a cardboard box with a clear top. Check out Luke Skywalker here, and then imagine a little me running around in it. I did NOT want to be Princess Lea. I wanted to be Luke Skywalker. That should’ve been a sign early on…but anyways…I remember walking up and down the block with my sister, getting candy from our neighbors. It’s one of my only happy memories of my childhood, sadly, and I’m not even a big Star Wars fan.
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