It’s been a sentimental evening for me.  Just in my head.  Nothing has really happened to make me feel this way, except a trip to Home Goods… I miss my mom.  She would love our 2 new puppies.  And she would be getting excited about school starting and getting all her teaching supplies ready and waiting for her 1st graders.  I think seeing pumpkin decorations and leaf wreaths reminds me of her… kind of subconsciously… and that’s what I saw at Home Goods this evening… makes me think of the beginning of the school year and all the crisp autumns I spent in central Illinois with my family.  Autumn is my favorite.  And the sights and smells bring back many memories.

Here is a photo of my niece and nephew and my kids at Lake Tahoe when my sister’s family was here just a couple of weeks ago, just because I like it.  And because I miss my sister and her family already.