Forget Pumpkin Spice!

Many people like to say that pumpkin spice is the sign that fall is around the corner, with everything being flavored pumpkin spice, from coffees to ice creams.  But when you see these guys, that's when you know the fall season is just around the corner!

We're ready for fall now, with FAMILY SIZE versions of the great American Halloween Tryptic of Cereals.  Yes!  It's an exciting time now!

In fact, because it is fall, perhaps this very thing would help one of our Georgia governor candidates stand a chance in 2018.  She's recently suggested that she wants to blast the sculpture of Stone Mountain away, which of course is controversial.  What are you going to replace it with if you become governor?  Here's your answer!

Yes, that's how important these three are to America!  It's something we all can agree on, right?  During election season, probably not.  During election season, it seems as if there's nothing anyone can ever agree on, even what cereal to have in the morning.

This morning we agreed to have Count Chocula though.  We'll be enjoying these for quite some time, as the boxes are pretty sizable.  Although I suspect Madison will be tearing through that Count Chocula rather quickly!

Here's something new.  This poster frame used to have Elsa and Anna in it, and may some day have that in it again.  But for now, it's Wonder Woman, and it happens to be one of the exact same posters we had hanging up at KidPak during Summer Xtreme.  I remember buying this poster with Pastor Lance down at the Mall of Georgia on June 10th, the day before Summer Xtreme started.  We got a bunch of posters of various heroes, and had them on the walls, along with inflatable heroes and hanging items and a few life-sized cardboard cutouts of Batman and someone else.  Anyway, this poster here is a souvenir of the Summer Xtreme in that regard, and it now hangs in Madison's room.  

Nana and Ba-Ba are here today, and we spent a good deal of time talking when we got home, catching up in some ways.  Madison had piano class tonight, so Daddy was taking her over there and back, and things seem to be okay there, moving along nicely with a new booklet and everything.  Madison is playing a few songs from the booklet, and doing them well.  So far, no complaints about the new teacher, who is younger, but Madison likes her and again, Madison seems to be doing well enough.

Check this out - it's the latest progress on the haunted mansion game.  It's coming along now, and might actually be done by October, believe it or not.  We're all anxious to play it, but the thing takes forever to cut out, and glue, and put together, and figure out, and... well, let's just say it's me all by me onesy, and I'm going at the best pace I can, given all the other things that are going on.

We read tonight from the devotional and the Unfortunate Events book, and did our zerberts too.  Madison's tradition of hiding before bedtime continues, and of course there is prayer time too.  We're praying for everyone in the path of this hurricane.  The path is a big question mark this week though. There's an anticipated direction, but that keeps shifting.  To begin with, it was going into North Carolina and Virginia, and we'd be pretty dry down here.  But... that just might be changing.  We'll be paying close attention, as will much of the Eastern Coast.