Behind our house is a painting. I don’t have coverings on my back windows just for this amazing view. I wake up every morning facing this enchanted forest, and for a few hours a day while I’m hanging out in my bed writing, I watch the leaves fall and the colors change. It will stay like this for a few weeks, then the trees will be bare. I thought I’d take some pictures to remember how lovely it is right now.

Another great thing about hanging out in my room, is Rob’s office is right next door. You know how your kids say funny quirky things and you think, “I need to right that down.” Husbands are just as funny sometimes. Today Rob was putting in eye drops and said “These drops are really old.”
“What’s the date on them say?” I ask.
He looks. “April 2001.”
“Those are seven years old and you’re putting them in your eyes! Throw them out!”
I think he’d use them still if I didn’t make a big deal about how old they are. I’m shaking my head at that.
Then yesterday he was in the bathroom and I come in after seeing the trailer for the new James Bond movie excited to tell him about it.
The conversation goes something like this:
“The new James Bond movie is coming out,” I say enthusiastically.
“I know, I wanna see it. That Bond is so dreaming. Those eyes. I almost want to marry him. And he makes that pouty face,” Rob makes the face.
I laugh. “If people at church heard you say that, what would they think?”
He makes the pouty face again.
Now everyone knows.