Welcome, Fall!

I've been slacking with the blog posts lately, I know. We were at my parents' this weekend, having a whole-family photo shoot, and then took a few days to visit with my brother and his family.

But meanwhile, we've had a spate of chilly weather that's been both welcome and dreaded. Dreaded (to me) because it means even more cold weather is coming -- I didn't move to the South because of my love for cold! But the fall weather has also been welcome, because the kids have been so thrilled about their "new" clothes!

Little Man: "New" hand-me-downs.
Sweet Pea: "New" clothes from a consignment sale.

It makes me smile to see how excited Sweet Pea gets about something as basic as socks -- I'm sure they seem so foreign to her, since she probably doesn't remember wearing them last winter. Little Man yells "new jeans!" no matter what pants I dress him in. And CC is anxious to show off all her fall clothes to her teachers at preschool. I usually walk into her bedroom each morning to find her already dressed, saying, "Mommy, my teachers have not seen this shirt yet! I think they will really like it!"

Simple pleasures. They make my heart smile.