Yesterday I took my boys shopping for shoes. The store was chocked full of Christmas!
Songs...Trees...decorations...wrapping paper. {which okay, my heart MAY have skipped a beat!..}
...but whilst I love the Christmas season with all my heart...I'm not ready yet.
I'm not willing to cheat on fall for winter wonderland.
I still want to bask in the season of cinnamon and salty caramel mochas.
I feel bad for November. It often doesn't get the credit it deserves.
November holds the last of the color...trees that scream golden orange and yellow.
November holds pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread and pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin lattes.
November holds the forgotten holiday. Does any store in America recognize Thanksgiving anymore?
November is cozy when the clocks are turned back.
November is the season to be thankful. (sorry pregnant Beth if you read this ;)
November is the month to color pilgrim and turkey pictures.
...and there you have it. My little tribute.
Hope your week is off to a great start.
XxOo
Great tribute! And yes, November, and Thanksgiving are both so warm and wonderful, as well as The ripenes of Fall. Here, what tree turn are all at their best right now. They Sycamores are gold this year, rather than just brown or tan. The Liquid Amber are all blazing...we have had cool enough nights for them to change, and for our down quilt on the bed :)
ReplyDeleteI do think that it is kind of a good thing that the commercialism passes over Thanksgiving, may be one of the reasons it stays simple...food, family, thanksgiving.
I love November! I love everything about Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI agree! November is a continuation of all the wonderful things I begin to enjoy in October each year . . . but it holds the extra near & dear to my heart Thanksgiving Day, and like you said, is the grand finale of the great colors and flavors before we change everything up for December! I love your tribute!
ReplyDeleteYES! It's funny because Christmas is creeping into IG and obviously the stores. I like to hold onto fall a bit longer. But we all know I'm all about the Christmas stuff deep down inside. ;)
ReplyDeleteI am stopping by your blog tonight via a link up from Shelley's blog, Frame of Mind. XO
YES! It's funny because Christmas is creeping into IG and obviously the stores. I like to hold onto fall a bit longer. But we all know I'm all about the Christmas stuff deep down inside. ;)
ReplyDeleteI am stopping by your blog tonight via a link up from Shelley's blog, Frame of Mind. XO
I'm with you on this one! I'm giving a "blind eye" to Christmas until after Thanksgiving is over. I want to relish this "thankful" month.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the pictures!
I agree. I really do love thanksgiving, I'm just tired of all 700 of my facebook friends posting daily what they're thankful for. What, like they forgot to be thankful the rest of the year?? ha.
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures.
And now I want a salted caramel mocha, pretty bad.
I inwardly groaned at the Christmas decorations. I do love Christmas but not yet. I am savoring fall. I think many of us are for I have enjoyed the tributes to fall all morning through words and pictures. I left mine as well.
ReplyDeleteagreed! one holiday at a time please. though here in canada - thanksgiving is already over and ppl are putting up christmas so i feel torn. what to do? stick to my american roots or when in rome?? ;))
ReplyDeletelovely pictures~ i like seeing you and your sisters and mom together. i want to hang w/ you all someday!
Amen Elizabeth! I love fall and Thanksgiving decorations but all the stores go from Halloween (yuck) straight to Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI really like the black and white photos you took in the pumpkin patch!
I could NOT agree more! I was still clinging to swim suits and sunscreen when people were salivating about pumpkin spice lattes and I will be clutching pumpkins in a death grip while the stores roll out the Christmas trees and the red and green! We just rushrushrush and in so doing, we never really appreciate the season or the time we are in. Lovely post, lovely blog!
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