Falling into Fall and Growing Up

No I'm not going to sing the Care Bears song. I'm thinking more about the process my girls are going through at the moment, hitting the momentous milestones of 8 and 9. They are and continue to amaze me consistently with how they adapt to their situations. Kitkat are really happy kids. Beautiful, insightful, their the kind that have their own TV show kids. Watching them grow into more than just my kids, watching them grow into people, thats a real mind boggler, as evidenced by my astonding notice of their milestones coming up, and having no idea what to do.

At this point you may change pages, because this is a real mom issue that you can only understand if you put together an angel and gates of heaven cake for a tea party, or an entire Hogwarts theme birthday complete with hand painted Whomping Willow and Owl Post invitations that mirror harrys own acceptance letter. This is a real issue, because the girls aren't just going to have birthdays this year. Their going to be separate. They have separate friends now. Separate issues. Separate interests. Gone are the High School Musical and Hannah Montana parties where they were the same. This year were having an outing to Gary's Berries, a corn maze, where my girls will chatter with their separate friends, probably want to be separate from me and everyone to group and go into the maze. I'll put together the activity of a Fall hunt, but how many different things can they find in a corn maze? besides corn. ;) This is a real moment, a time where I'm watching and thinking, "Wow, so this is what its like". As I curl my daughters hair, I think about her first curls and smile at how Christines hair never fell flat, like she was full of energy for the first two years. How Catherine never had hair at all until she was 2. I digress, but I do believe that is the point. As they grow, I can observe, I can remember, I can try not to cry.

Look outside right now. Its fall. Not just any fall. Fall 2010. What are you thinking and doing right now? What do you remember? Pick out those pumpkins? Room mom/dad for that halloween party? Lay down and roll around in leaves?(Do yourself a favor and look closely at those leaves first..;) These are more than just photo opportunities. These are things you can remember. Global warming is changing how we celebrate our seasons, and lets face it, the seasons. Winter of 88 was 8 feet snow drifts. Winter of 2007 was an Ice Storm that pretty much knocked out the Midwest. Power outages for over a week. Whats fall of 2010? I don't know, and I'm going to capture it either way. Join me? Call me and lets celebrate today together with some awesome images. A walk on Lake Perry is where I'll be tonight.