Nov. 11, 2007 - Another post from a few weeks ago
I've been using Gabriel's laptop and had to figureout transfering things.
Busy Fall Days
Yesterday was our annual Fall Festival. I don’t remember exactly how it started but we get together each year with my mom and sisters, and now cousins, to celebrate fall. At a young age, Jessamyn started the tradtional Falling Leaf Dance,whish is now performed by Peace and the young cousins. Some years we have baked, made candles or gone to the Pumpkin Patch. This year we went for a walk to collect leaves (which will be dipped in wax by Grama and Peace), and had a Perfectly Delicious Fall Lunch. On the menu was: Butternut Squash Soup, Eggplant Mousakka , grainy bread with butter the Peace made by shaking cream in a jar, carrot cake, pumpkin squares with cinnamon vanilla whipped cream and hot apple cider. Leave were tossed wildly as the dancers performed. I just enjoyed preparing during the morning so much—listening to music, making the soup, enjoying the décor of leaves and gourds and burning pumpkin-nectarine scented oil. We didn’t have time for it, but Peace and I are going to make “pomander” apples and oranges—where you stick cloves in the fruit and dip in cinnamon and let it dry.
We’ve gotten two of our adoption training classes done—drug affected children and honoring a child’s heritage. We’re working on costumes—for my nephew’s birthday party, Jessamyn is going to a “Masquerade dance”and also we are in charge of fitting, mending, etc. a couple groups ofcostumes for the ballet Peace is in in December.
We went to a nearby farm for a hayride to get pumpkins, as well as the corn maze. It was really cold and rainy, but we had a good time.