Lots o' Early Voters

We voted today, and it was early voting of course, but it was still pretty crowded.  In fact, it's easily the longest wait we've had for early voting, even including the last Presidential election.  And it was even longer than many of the voting lines that we've had on Election Day itself.  I'm not sure what this says about the outcome, but this is one of those things that people universally agree upon:  it's a good thing to see so many people out there and voting.  That is, they say that only if the election results are agreeable, right?

We were there at the library a bit early, and getting some more Dr. Seuss books as well.  Today we were cleaning up the house a good bit, but also doing a bit of seasonal recreational activities, such as this:

Daddy sculpted this one out today, although it isn't done yet.  I'm going to be carving out the insides, and doing something with the stem as well.  This was found at Burt's Pumpkin Farm, and the stem looked like something to me, and that's where the idea came from.  So far so good.  And yes, this is three pumpkins that I've carved so far this year, plus cleaning out the insides for a few people on Saturday.  I've done quite a bit, and there's still one more pumpkin left for me later, so there's plenty of things to do before Wednesday.

Today was a quiet day - we went to piano, of course.  Daddy wrote another entry for the devotional, and we finished the mystery of the attic with Nancy Drew.  It was agreed upon that this was one of her better adventures, certainly going along with the spooky vibe of this season.  The black widow spiders were creepy enough!

Madison studied for her test in Language Arts tomorrow, working on her vocabulary, and doing a bit of review.  We also worked on the "Goosebumps" game a bit, although we're not quite finished with that one yet.  Things may extend past Wednesday a bit with that one, but by gum, the Christmas trees are coming out soon!  We're excited for the holiday season, and can't wait to start putting things out.  We're celebrating this season now, of course, and it's been fun.  But we started early, and it feels great to not to have to rush things and think about the things we didn't get to do so much.  There's always something you don't get to do, but at least we have more time if we start early, and when you look back on this season, you'll see we did a lot, from pumpkins to apples to fall leaves to cookies and gingerbread houses and movies and carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating and so on.  And there's still a few days left, so hang on - it's going to be fun!