The Autumn Experience: Bucket List and Cozy Traditions

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Hey everyone, you're listening to 5 Years Time with your host, grace Black Music. Hi everyone, everyone. Oh my gosh, I used to say that so long ago. Hey cuties, welcome back to 5 Years Time podcast with your host Grace I almost said ghost, which is very fitting for this week's episode because we are talking about fall bucket lists, but with your ghost, grace, before we jump into this week's episode, let's get into our weekly recap. And also how's everyone doing?

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The weather here has been so sunshiney-beautiful, I feel like for a while there it was gloomy and, as I said last week, it's been dark. When we're waking up and I'm trying to get used to it and figure out the new routine, the new vibes, the new, embracing every moment and not feeling like, oh my gosh, where's the sunshine? And I think I'm getting there. I'm definitely getting there and I'm really excited for I already told you about this, but later on this month when my vanity table comes the same vanity table I had in my mom's house growing up because I just feel like it's really going to add to my good morning routine that I have planned out for this cooler, darker mornings. But before we jump into that well, we're not jumping into that. So let's get into our weekly recap.

Speaker 1: 1:42

This past week was good it was. I told you last week that I gave up caffeine, so that, of course, had a play into the week. It wasn't as stark of a shock to my system, I guess, as the first time I gave up caffeine, but it definitely. I had to give myself lots of grace with my energy levels and then I actually ended up getting a cold, which I don't even know. If it was a cold, I actually don't know what it was. It was like a 24-hour thing, maybe a little bit more than 24 hours, but basically on Saturday night I started feeling, or like Saturday afternoon I just started feeling really drained and then tired. I didn't sleep well the night before, so maybe that played into it.

Speaker 1: 2:25

And then I woke up on Sunday with a really sore throat, but I spent all day in bed and drank tea and just watched shows and movies, and I literally drank so much tea which I feel like I always warm beverages always help so much. I really wanted some bone broth, but we didn't have any brothy or anything like that. Also, I just want to fix my lighting on my camera one second. Okay, I thought I felt like it was too blue, but maybe it still is the same, I don't even know. Anyways, we're continuing. But then I woke up and I went to bed early and I woke up this morning feeling so much better. I still felt pretty low energy this morning, but definitely my throat doesn't hurt anymore. I don't feel any ickiness.

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Ro had a little bit of a cough like when she was sleeping, which normally is the end of a cold for her is when she gets sleeping coughs, but it's bound. It's the beginning of the school year, but hopefully maybe it was just a quick weekend thing for both of us, but yeah. So the week itself was good. I made such a fun meal with my sister-in-law while I guess not with her, but she came over and we restarted Wednesday night dinners, which is so exciting. It's always fun A little pick me up in the middle of the week to connect with family and enjoy dinner, and then we usually watch a show.

Speaker 1: 3:48

Currently we started Righteous Gemstones, season 3, I think, so we started that up again. We're between Barry and Righteous Gemstones and we were watching Barry, but we decided to do Righteous Gemstones first, barry. The last season, like season two, was very dark. It's still funny, like there were still lots of laugh out loud moments, but very dark, like heavy, Righteous Gemstones is a little lighter and laughier, so we went with that, but both loved those shows Anyway. So, yeah, we had some spaghetti and chicken Caesar salad, so that was delicious and I got out my pasta maker, which was fun, and that was like my first meal officially back in the kitchen after summer of just like not cooking that much and kind of going with the flow. We didn't want the snack plates being out and about, going left and right and booping around and bopping around, so that was nice. It felt very folly to be back in the kitchen.

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And then I actually ended up babysitting on the Wednesday morning for a neighbor, which was the easiest babysitting ever because the baby slept the whole time. So I planned out their meal. I was like, oh great, I'm going to spend a few hours babysitting, plan out this meal and then we'll go do shopping and get everything together. So that was a good day. But yeah, then basically the rest of the week I started doing a little bit of packing. I'm just going to throw that in there. We're going to keep moving because next week I have a surprise for all of you. Okay, cuties, but yeah. So I spent the rest of the week just getting really organized and getting ready for something. And then on the weekend we had a family birthday party over at Trevor's parents for the rest of the September birthdays, including Trevs, and that was so much fun. We had some beef and whatever.

Speaker 1: 5:32

And then I ended up not feeling as the day went on. I just like lost energy and steam. But we went bowling and rogutter for a strike and yeah, and then I just had a really chill Sunday and today has been such a good day. I'm recording on Monday today because I have plans tomorrow. So I do, I would be able to record. But I woke up this morning feeling really like I knew yesterday. I was like yesterday I'm gonna give myself grace, tomorrow All I need to do is record the podcast.

Speaker 1: 5:58

And then I woke up this morning feeling Very much. I don't know what I was feeling like. At first I was like, okay, my throat doesn't hurt. And then I was like I'm so tired, I kind of just want to take it easy this morning. And then when I took row to school, that felt really like energy draining and I was like, oh, but I kind of also don't know if I'm at that point, you know, sometimes like you have to make the call. Is it a chill day or is it like you should do a little bit of stuff and get back into routine, like not to like, not push yourself, but just because your body just needs that little bit of a push, you know? And so I was having a big debate but I was like I don't know, and so I came home with no expectations and then I started the laundry and I was like you know what? I don't really want to go grocery shopping this week because surprises to come. So I was like I didn't want to fill up our fridge. So I was like, oh wait, let me check, let me think about what's in the fridge. I knew I had some butter in that squash. So I was like, okay, I have an idea. And then row this morning really wanted eggs which we have eggs but we didn't have any more bread for dipping, and she loves dipping eggs, but like you can't dip in egg if you don't have the dipping. So I was like, oh, maybe I'll make a loaf of bread today, because that's pretty chillax.

Speaker 1: 7:08

Making bread is very relaxing activity. It's not very time-consuming. Like it's time-consuming in the sense that it takes a long time because there's a lot of sitting and waiting, but like the actual work process doesn't take that long. So I was like, oh, maybe I'll make bread. And then I remembered I had butternut squash and I was like, oh, we could do soup. That would be so easy and delicious and just wholesome and good food and I would feel good cooking that.

Speaker 1: 7:29

So I started on my bread and did the laundry and was watching my show and just having a really nice day, going back and forth between those three things of folding and breading and Watching the show and taking alibi for a walk, which was nice. I did take alibi for a little walk around the street, which felt so good. I'm so happy. She asked for that. Like she came up to me and you could tell she has her walk face on. I was like, thank you. Like sometimes she only wants to go like two houses. She's very small dog and she like grew up in a condo so she's like used to just going outside, go to the bathroom and coming back in, but she wanted to do the whole loop today, which was great and it made me feel so good to be out in the fresh air and it just set the mood.

Speaker 1: 8:13

And then when I got home I realized that not all our windows were open, because it does get pretty cool at night time, so Trevor will close a lot of the windows. So I went around and I opened them all up to let in some fresh air and then started on my my cooking day and Getting some stuff done. And I went around to each of the rooms and made the beds and just put stuff away and freshened up a bit and it just felt really good, like that was the perfect Push, and at first I was like I'm gonna come home and record the podcast right away so I can just chill the rest of the day, if that's how I was feeling. But I'm so happy I did all of that and now here we are at 2 pm Recording the podcast and I'm feeling so much more rejuvenated and Energized and the house smells like fresh bread and I know that we're gonna make a delicious soup for dinner, which I love.

Speaker 1: 8:55

Making soup. I feel like soup is one of those things I never knew was easy to make until I started making it and now it's like so fun to play around and I try. I usually never really use a recipe with soup. I kind of just like Throw a bunch of things in and it usually tastes so good. So I'm really excited to get that going. Yeah, so I'm just happy. I'm happy with how this week has started and it feels really good. And so let's get into our snack and drink of the week. I'm so excited to share with you the drink of the week.

Speaker 1: 9:29

First of all, if you're on YouTube, look at this mug. I know it's not fall yet. Technically it's only September 20th, but fall comes on September 23rd, so we're almost there, guys. I I Sometimes I'm like right on the right on the ball for fall. Like back to school is fall time. Especially when I worked in education and I was in the school, I would definitely try and switch over my wardrobe, always too early and it would be so hot. But I would switch over my wardrobe before school started because it was always so busy when school started and have time to do it really Afterwards. And then all of a sudden it's Thanksgiving and you're like, oh my gosh, I haven't gotten, I haven't got organized yet. So I used to be very like once school started, fall was there. But now I'm taking it more lax. But here we are, september 20th and I have my pumpkin mug, mainly because my sister-in-law got this for me for my birthday. She just came home. As I said, we've resigned or resigned or resumed Wednesday night dinners and she just came home from working up north this summer, so we just exchanged birthday gifts. But yeah, she got me the cutest little pumpkin mug and I love it because I hate Okay, hates a strong word, but like I'm not a huge pumpkin spice coffee girly, so this is like my way of getting pumpkin spice without having to put it inside of my mug, inside of inside of me, inside the drink.

Speaker 1: 10:47

Anyways, I made a hot chocolate. I've been so obsessed with hot chocolates recently. Row Loves, as she says, hot cocoa. I love the way she says hot cocoa, but she'll always say oh, mommy, maybe we can have a hot cocoa. Do we have marshmallows done? I don't know, she just gets in. I don't know where she picks it up, for my feeling she sees something, or maybe she talks about it with someone and all of a sudden she's just like fixated on it. Maybe it's in a show she's watching, I don't even know, but like she loves hot chocolate, and so she was recently asking for hot chocolate. In the other morning she was like, oh, can we have hot chocolate? Oh, I cleaned out. Oh, cuties, this is such a big weekly update.

Speaker 1: 11:24

I didn't say I cleaned out my coffee cupboard, like where our mugs and teas and coffees are. It was driving me bazonkers and I cleaned it all out and that actually also made me clean out. We have another cupboard where we keep like a basket of dish rags, like old rags and cloths and stuff that we use, and then All our jars and water bottles and like coffee Cups to go cups like that type of stuff and anyway. So I cleaned those both out, got rid of a bunch of stuff, donated a whole set of coffee mugs and I don't that came with our plate set. But I'm not a huge fan of the coffee mugs themselves because they have a pedestal bottom and they just like I don't know they're tippy or they're not tippy, but like they could be tippy, I just don't reach for them ever and we have so many other mugs. So I got rid of all of those mugs, I donated them and then went through our collection and downsized and I just feel like so much more at Peace. And then, and when I open it first thing in the morning, oh the joy, but anyways.

Speaker 1: 12:24

So I was cleaning that out and I have this little teapot set that my aunt had got me a few years back. That came with Teapot and these two little cups that I think it's traditionally made for making green tea. And so Ro was like, oh, I want to use one of those cups hers from hot cocoa. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do it. So I actually made her some hot cocoa and then I was thinking about, I was like, oh, I could go for some of that. So then Saturday or Sunday when I woke up at the sore throat, I had some tea and then I was like, oh, I kind of want something more. So I made myself a hot chocolate and it was so good. And now I'm like on my kick.

Speaker 1: 12:56

So all I do is steamed milk because we have our frother. So steamed milk. If you didn't have a steamer like you could just alternatively microwave your milk or heat it up over the stove and then I pour it over Whatever chocolate you like. I literally don't know what chocolate I use. Today I've reached into the bottom of our like snack a bucket of like random chocolates and bits and bobs and found a Half-opened Chocolate bar and it smelled. It smell like dark chocolate. So I think I have two squares of dark chocolate in here and then I just mix it all up and it is so delicious let's take a sip together. Mmm, it's just like a warm hug and like I kind of love making hot chocolate this way.

Speaker 1: 13:40

I've never been a huge hot chocolate cutie, like growing up I wasn't a big fan of hot chocolate and I definitely like whipped cream and cinnamon. That's one of my favorite mixes, like just the chopping, like whipped cream and cinnamon. But like then I'd get to the hot chocolate and it was like, oh, it's too much. But I think I realized when I got older I went to Aroma and so Aroma is a coffee shop here and it's a chain, so some people know about it. But anyways, they make their hot chocolate with chocolate and steamed milk. So they put in like the physical chocolate cubes that I believe they use milk chocolate and then steam milk and it is so delicious and not overpowering, sickly sweet. So I think what I don't like is like the syrups and the, the powders and stuff.

Speaker 1: 14:25

So anyways, I then started making it this way and it's like, oh, and it also like feels good. It's kind of like like a good solid snack as well, like because it's like a full glass of milk, get some protein in you. So delicious, yum. So, anyways, I'm also just so jazzed about this mug. I have not stopped using it for the past few days since I got it and I will be using it probably every day until until I, until I feel like I'm pumpkined out.

Speaker 1: 14:56

So, anyways, my snack of the week is some a sausage. That's like the most fall snack of the week. I know it's called summer sausage, but I believe that's because it's made in the summer. I think I'm not sure. Anyways, it's fall for us because there's this festival that we go to every year, called the Apple butter festival, that we go with Trevor's family, like his extended family. They're all from that area. It's like something that they've been going to forever in years.

Speaker 1: 15:26

Blah, blah, blah, like family tradition, right, and that's close to St Jacobs Market. It's in Wellesley, so it's like over near like the Kitchener and Waterloo area. I believe that might be wrong Cambridge area. Honestly, I'm oh, I don't know, I'm not good at that area. I know it's not new market. I used to always get kitchen. I used to always get Waterloo and Newmarket mixed up, but that's totally wrong. So yeah, I think Cambridge Waterloo area is correct, which is where St Jacobs is, where you can get such delicious cured meats and summer sausage. I mean, I think you get summer sausage lots of places and actually you can get it at Farmboy in the deli sliced, which is just like next level.

Speaker 1: 16:05

When I first learned that it was like, oh my gosh, but Trevor's parents always get us a big old summer sausage like the Hagen sausage, and so we've been working through that and I actually haven't dug into it yet myself. Trevor and Ro have been enjoying it, but I just have not. I think I had like turkey and other things I was eating and chicken. I had lots of chicken breasts that I had, that I was eating and anyways, we've run out of all that. So I've moved on to the summer sausage and oh, it's so delicious. It's just like cured delicious meat but it has a very particular. It's a salami but it has a very particular taste to it. It's not a spicy salami, it's just got so much deliciousness, but it is the perfect addition to any snack plate or just a little piece to nibble on, and today I was dipping into my hummus and it was delicious. So, anyways, summer sausage and hot cocos is my snack and drink of the week.

Speaker 1: 16:51

Now let's get into. This week I learned Okay, cute. This week I learned fall is coming and I don't want to let it slip through my fingers. So we're talking fall bucket lists. I feel like anytime that I don't feel well I think I talk about this all the time on the podcast. Every time I like don't feel well or like whatever, I always feel like, oh my gosh, I'll never take for granted. When I feel better, when I'm able to move better, like I will never take that for granted again. And I think we all feel that way, like when we're sick or when we're in a sticky situation, but especially when we're sick, like, I feel like we can relate a lot with that feeling of like freedom slipped away, because it's like, oh, you just do not feel good to do the things that you want to do or the things that you need to do, and so I feel like I was thinking this week I'm like what is my fall bucket list? I used to always do this. I think we used to do this on the podcast back when me and Lauren hosted together season one baby for all the old cuties, or you can always go back and listen but we used to do our bucket lists a lot for seasons like summer. I think we did a fall one.

Speaker 1: 18:00

I'm not a hundo, but I was excuse me, I needed to cough. I was thinking about what do I want to do this fall? I think it's so fun to set not an expectation, but a feeling, a vibe for your time ahead. Like I used to be such an expectation person, I think expectations can be dangerous because it's not very go with the flow, and the world is definitely a go with the flow. Life is a go with the flow and so it's always hard to like let be let down. But like this is more just like creating a list of things that you would like to do and you would like to have encompassed in your fall, and if you are able to book them in advance or start thinking about them and having them in your mind, talking to friends, seeing what other people want to do, you can kind of like create a fall vibe that you want it right. So, anyways, I've made a bucket list and this kind of all started.

Speaker 1: 18:55

I told you I was thinking about all the weekend, but the bucket part started all because me, trevor and Ro had gone on a hike a couple of weeks ago and we drove past this pumpkin farm that we drive past all the time, because we go on this hike, like all the time. It's one of our favorite hikes, and I remember when I first moved here, I heard about this pumpkin farm and I was like, oh, like we're going to go there for sure. Okay, fast forward, this is our third, I think this would be. We lived here for three years. This is our fourth fall in the house, I guess, and we have not gone to this pumpkin farm yet. Like what?

Speaker 1: 19:29

Before me and Trevor had a rosy, and before the pandemic, all of that we were at the pumpkin farm every year, without a doubt, we would always go, even when we lived in a condo. It was just fun, it was something fun to do. And then we also I would go every year with the kids from school and we would have so much fun, like me and Trevor used to embrace fall so much, because something that me and Trevor love, love, love to do. It's like one of our favorite ways to spend time and we don't get to do it as often, or in not even as often. We don't get to do it in the same way that we used to, because now, obviously, we have kids time. It's changed. Well, kid, we have child, and times have like changed. Your routine has changed things, like that.

Speaker 1: 20:11

But like we used to always just like wake up on Saturday or Sunday morning, whichever day of the weekend, and it would be like let's go do something and we would literally just like leave the house and drive and figure it out on the way. And maybe we'd like pick an area let's say Cambridge, since we're talking about that, and we would just head in the general area of Cambridge and try to get off at the highway at some point where we could drive on country roads and figure out where we were going to go and what we were going to do, and find a little town, stop at a farm, stop in for a cute lunch, like just create an adventure. And like I'm not saying we don't do that anymore. We just oh, I think something just got delivered Because Alibi is barking so much, which is hilarious because she is literally the most terrified dog ever. But if someone knocks on our door, she becomes this like guard dog, but not actually like she just barks, but like she doesn't. If I opened the door, she would like we're scurry away. Oh, it's actually so good because she never did that in the condo which is good because it's a condo but I'm glad she does it in the house because it is nice to have like that protection, even though she's really not that protective. But anyways, we used to do that all the time and I feel like we even did it when Ro was like a little bebebe. We would take her with us and like obviously it was COVID when she was tiny, tiny, so we really only got to drive and like maybe pick up a coffee at the drive through and go for a walk or whatever. But yeah, that was something we used to love to do and it's still part of who we are Like. I feel like it's not gone away. It will come back, but anyways, I'm just so surprised that we haven't gone.

Speaker 1: 21:42

So number one is the pumpkin farm, because we have to take Ro. She will absolutely love it. I have no idea what this pumpkin farm is like, but I think it has like activities and obviously it'll probably have like a maze and pick out our pumpkins and all of that stuff. So number one on the list is the pumpkin farm and I'm so excited to go and so excited for Ro to experience her first pumpkin farm. It's going to be so much fun and just like such fall vibes, you know, get the flannels out, the pumpkin mugs. I can't wait.

Speaker 1: 22:12

We also went to this really awesome farm this summer, me and Ro and I was going to say in Ro's grandma, my mother-in-law, but, yes, ro's grandma we went to this farm one day. I think it was called Spring Ridge, I'm not a hundred and I think it was in Milton, but it's a really cool farm because it's like on the escarpment but it's on a hill, so like it is on a hill, you do have to like walk uphill. It was really hot that day when we went, but I'm sure they must do fall stuff because they definitely had Christmas ornaments up, which makes me feel like they do Christmas stuff. So I feel like they must do fall stuff and so that's actually a good idea. I'm going to write that down. Maybe me and Rhonda can do that with Ro one day too. Just hit up all the pumpkin farms. We're going to go do as much pumpkin farm stuff as possible. You just wait and see. Sorry, I'm just writing that down because I'm someone who I used to remember everything and now it's like I have to write it down, or else it's like where did that thought go?

Speaker 1: 23:08

Okay, number two is experiment with cozy drinks, just how I have been experimenting with hot chocolate, but like I this weekend drinking tea all day just made me and because it was decaf I could definitely drink it all day but like it just made me love having something cozy close by as it gets cooler and it's just nice to feel like that little bit of something. It's something special. You know what I mean Something to spice up that moment. That can be sometimes a dull day, like I feel like fall can be so beautiful, but it can definitely have a lot of gloom and dull days to it. So just experimenting with cozy drinks, trying making new things and, yeah, just having fun with it. Okay.

Speaker 1: 23:56

Number three is embrace the crisp air, like I just want. I had this epiphany this morning. I feel like I have it all the time, but like when I came home from dropping a row and Albi wanted to go for a walk. We went out and it was so beautiful. I was like it is just so beautiful out right now. It is the perfect weather it's not too hot, not too cold, the sun is shining, and I just loved every moment being out there and I just want to like have that in me to go out and embrace the crisp air more often. I'm glad I have a dog that helps me get out there too. But, yeah, just being aware of those beautiful days because they go by so quickly, okay, cozy food that involves longer cooking and a full house of dreamy smells.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Like I want to really slow down my cooking. Like, obviously there's days that I have to have my fast meals and I have lots of those sheet pan dinners that I love to make, that are so easy. But also I am lucky in the sense that I do this for a living create food, different food, what do you call it? Videos, and so I just really want to slow down and embrace those longer cooking meals, like today making the bread and now making the soup. Those are not like. Bread isn't something. So fast, it takes time, it fills the whole house. Soup you have to roast the vegetables, which depends on what kind of soup you're making, but we're making squash, so roasting the vegetables and then combining it and letting it simmer on the stove, just embracing all of that and creating a really cozy atmosphere while you do it.

Speaker 1: 25:40

And something I love to do is watching where the sun changes. Like this time of year, the sun starts setting and what is it called? When it rising in different, at different times, but also throughout the day. It you feel, like every day it's changes drastically where it is. And we have these like light catchers on two of our windows that cast rainbows, and in the summer they don't cast the rainbows at all because the Sun just doesn't go, that doesn't set where they are. But now they're back to casting a little rainbow here, a little rainbow there, and just a sliver of Sun behind the stove, which, like, only happens during, like a certain time of the year. Just embracing all that little bit and the atmosphere and the coziness of it All. Well, the food's cooking and smelling so good, like that's. That's what I want for my fall.

Speaker 1: 26:32

Fall cleaning. This kind of is a continuation of my summer purging. I have been spending all summer. We're really going through not even a full room at a time, just like an area. At a time like this weekend I did those cupboards RT and coffee covered and our jar covered and it felt so good and Just like keeping that up, like I still have so much space that I can go through and declutter, and then also just keeping on top of Feeling, because now is the time when, like, we start to go inwards more, like not yet, but like I feel like we spend more time in our home and it I just want to make sure it feels really, really Lovely to be in here. So just Continuing to declutter but then also doing those little room checks, like this morning I went around to.

Speaker 1: 27:26

We have three bedrooms, so our bedroom, rose bedroom, and our guest bedroom, which is also a TV room. Like our guest bedroom has our upstairs TV, so we like chill in there sometimes is like a chill room, but anyways, just going through and fixing the pillow is making the beds, putting things back where they belong, just like a little. It literally takes five minutes. Just walk through and just like really embracing and praising my space, like saying Thank you, I love you.

Speaker 1: 27:55

Space, okay, being mean of meaningful with every moment. I feel like this is all very connected, but like again, like having the cozy drink, watching where the Sun falls, paying attention to that, being aware of the way that my space is making me feel and appreciative of how I've tidied it or how things have been picked up and put away, feeling that clean, openness of the purge that I've already done, like the things I've removed. Knowing that when I open up my closet, it's not full of a scary thing that I need to like empty out or that I've been like shoving away. Knowing that when I open a New door, that that room, everything there belongs there and it has a spot. Like embracing all of those moments.

Speaker 1: 28:41

And so when I say like being meaningful of every moment, that's really what I mean is just like being really aware and in in the zone, like feeling that moment, because I like fall is like next. I Don't know like I feel like this is true for everything, but there's something about fall that's next level. There's so much beauty and it's so quick going and it's just like I want to embrace it all so much Because it changes so quickly. So yeah, and that's another thing when my vanity table comes, I'm really looking forward to that being able to get up and take a quick shower. I find taking a really quick shower first thing in the morning is the best thing for me. Like I'll just do a quick five-minute body shower, not even and that, and then that I have to put clothes on or at least a Bathrobe. I'm not in my pajamas anymore. I won't vegetate because I find like it's really easy for me to like Lose that morning motivation because I am a morning person and I tend to wake up.

Speaker 1: 29:37

Sorry, I had a little cough. I tend to wake up With Rosie, or like she wakes me up, so it's like kind of a struck wake up. Oh, I got a dry throat. Sorry, I just needed to like cough out the dry throat I forgot. I'm remembering now, oh Gosh, I'm remembering now how dry this room gets when it's so much drier. This is another thing in fall Okay, one second, it's all coming back to me. Like last winter, when I started filming in here and recording in here, it was like oh, we get so dry, I need like a little Humidifier, not even a humidifier necessarily, but even just like a diffuser, just something that gets some liquid into the air. Or I just need to bring like a wet towel in here, oh, because my throat gets so, so dry. I just remember it. But anyways, I feel like I was still talking.

Speaker 1: 30:28

Oh, yeah, getting ready. So waking up, taking my shower, and then then going to sit at my vanity and, oh, go make my warm drink or travel, bring it to me. And then getting to sit at my vanity and Just start getting ready very leisurely, like I find, like in my own space, like, yes, rose gonna be around doing her thing, but like what I'm doing in the bathroom? We all share bathrooms, so it's like everyone's going in and out, so I just like, I'm like, okay, I just don't, I just don't get ready it, or like I don't, I Spend as little time as possible in there. So I'm just looking forward to it, just really looking forward to it.

Speaker 1: 31:04

Okay, chasing fall colors, obviously, but I mean like I want to spend as much time on walks and hikes and at parks and just being outdoors this goes back to embracing the crisp air and everything but like the fall colors go by so quickly. Last year we had literally the most magical fall colors ever and I remember there was a reason for it. It's because we had a colder spraying or something. I don't remember what the reason was, but the colors were literally Fluorescent. They was, it was, they were neon, it was wild, and so I Don't think they'll be as like Magnificent this year, but they will still always be magnificent. So I just want to make sure that I really embrace it, and so that means and because it gets dark earlier, I really love, as the fall comes to, instead of picking up row and coming home right after we get out and go For a walk or to a park or something, and just spend that last good hour of sunshine Out there in the sun embracing it, and then we can come home to a house smelling of good food If it's been cooking all day, maybe slow cook moments or then throwing one of those quick meals together. But that's something I really want to do.

Speaker 1: 32:14

And then, last but not least, is create a spooky decor for the house this year, aka for Halloween, because that's something row really want. She wants it to be spooky, that's what she says, and so, so scary. And I actually almost convinced her, not convinced her. I was saying like, oh, like, I think she saw something. I'm not sure where we were, but they were something decorated. Maybe it was like a brain-eating monster or something. And then I was.

Speaker 1: 32:43

Then there was something about Mommy's, I don't know, but some how we got into like Scary babies or so and I was like, do you want to be a scary baby for Halloween? And she was like yeah, and I was like explaining how we could create that and she was like Maybe you could be the scary baby. So she like wants scary and spooky. But I don't think like too scary spooky. But yeah, we've never done Like a super spooky Decor for the house before. We've always done just pumpkins and whatever. Last year we had a very like antiquey look For the Halloween parade, because you have to like set up a table or whatever. But yeah, so this year she really wants to do like you know, the graveyard, the spooky music, all of that stuff. So we'll see what we can do. But I'm looking forward to it and I just want to like have fun with it because she's so into it and that's just sounds like such a good time and I love when you can do drop child directed activities and like it's a two-in-one. It's like she wants to decorate the house. I'm gonna have to do that anyways. It's perfect, this just works out. So, yeah, that is my fall bucket list. I'm really, really looking forward to embracing it.

Speaker 1: 33:52

We have a couple more days till the official beginning of fall. I can't wait. I will need to switch over my wardrobe at some point, but for now I am embracing every last little sip of summer. I was gonna go for a paddle board the other day at sunset, and Half of me wishes I did, because it was literally the most beautiful sunset. But I knew it was the most beautiful sunset because we ended up going down to the lake there's a park close to the lake with a row after dinner because she really wanted to go, and so I got to spend with my family instead and we still got to see the sunset. So I'm not complaining. But, yeah, I feel like I need to get a couple more paddle boards in before we officially say goodbye to the summer season. You know what I mean. So, yeah, that's my fall bucket list.

Speaker 1: 34:39

I'd love to know what's on yours. Hit me up, do you have me comment on Any of my posts? Whatever, let me know. Okay, let's get into our roses, buds and thorns. Hmm, my rose this week, I think, was that sunset like I just told you about. I think it was on Friday night.

Speaker 1: 35:06

We went down and it was kind of a bummer because like they already switched their fall hours at this place. It's like it has like a farm. Oh gosh, my thing gave me an alert, but it's all good, sorry, it has like a farm and it just switched to it's like fall hours, which means that it closes an hour earlier. So we missed out on walking through the farm part, which is totally fine. We literally go there all the time. But Ro was like a little disappointed. But actually all the animals were like Part of the fence of the farm connects to the park, so like you can still see in, but like all the animals were being super active like by the fence, like the cows and the horses, so like we still got to see a lot of animals and we actually Went down for a walk to the lake to see the sunset, which was awesome and it was so nice.

Speaker 1: 35:48

And then we walked up and there were two skunks and they were so cute, but also they're skunks. So we were kind of like where do we go? And we were kind of like stuck in an awkward place and they kept going like in and out of this fence that like connects to the, there's like a river next to it or stream, I don't know, but anyways. So it was like, oh, they definitely see us. So we're like maybe we can just sneak by. But as we got closer it was like no, we definitely can't. So we walked up this hill and there was a fence we had to climb over. But we got over and we got away. But they were so cute and, yeah, I don't think any of us had ever seen skunks that close up and row was so excited and they were so cute. I actually have seen this gun close up once, but like not really seen it.

Speaker 1: 36:30

I actually almost picked up a skunk one time. I was letting Alibi out, who's a little black dog about the size of a skunk, and it was at my mom's house and I let her out. I think it was like it was dark out I don't remember what season it was, but anyways it was dark and I was like where did she go? So I'm like calling her Alibi Alibi, and then I thought I saw her. So I like went up to go pick her up and as I got closer, all of a sudden the white Sean and I was like, oh, you're not Alibi, you're a skunk. And so I like almost picked it up. Thank goodness I didn't. But then I was like where is Alibi? There's a skunk out here and it's all good. She came in but she didn't get sprayed. But that was funny. It's funny after the fact the fact that I didn't get sprayed.

Speaker 1: 37:12

And then my thorn, I think, was On Sunday. I'm happy that I was able to rest and relax and that like the sickness didn't last too long, like that's so great. But I was supposed to do something really fun. That was like an in-person thing, which now I have had to schedule for a virtual just because of timing, which is totally fine, but like it's still gonna happen, but it was supposed to happen on Sunday. I was really looking forward to it. But bummer, sometimes, sometimes things happen like that. But I am grateful that we have virtual options. And then my bud I'm really really excited for a surprise that's coming next week and that's all I'm gonna tell you. Next week is Trevor's 30th birthday and I have signed us up for the surprise of a lifetime. So, yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. And then let's get into our entertainment recap and statement Recap. Okay, cute.

Speaker 1: 38:10

So, first of all Love Island episodes have dropped today and I wasn't even watching Love Island today when I was doing all that stuff because I started a new blow-deck. I did. I'm not sure if the season's done yet, but I'm watching because I'm only like however many episodes through, I don't know, like six, seven, eight, nine, ten, I don't know how many episodes I'm into it, but like I started yesterday, on Sunday, the blow-deck down in the middle of the day. I'm the blow-deck down under, which I do love the down under one and so it is a really good season. It has a lot of heavy topics and it makes you feel a lot of different things, but I'm really enjoying it and I'm totally hooked and so, yeah, I've been fully watching that and I'm actually should check if it's done, because I need to also start watching my Love Island again.

Speaker 1: 39:01

But it's like this Sunday, this Monday drop of seven episodes is really throwing me off, because whenever I finish the last episode which is never further than Wednesday, like I feel like I finished them at least in three days, I Am so like, oh my gosh, like what's gonna happen next. And then I come to Monday and it's like I literally can't remember what was happening. So it almost makes me feel like, oh, like I'll watch it when I watch it, but then I get back into it again. But yeah, it's just a very interesting, interesting way of watching. It is this way. So I guess that's how it feels when you watch like one episode every week. But in this situation I'm watching seven and then waiting a week and watching seven more.

Speaker 1: 39:45

But yeah, I'm trying to think oh, we also watched the movie Luca, which was so cute on Disney, and Row, I think, watched part of it again this morning. She was like let's watch that movie again. So she really liked it and I'm trying to think I was watching something else before I put on below deck, but I'm trying to think of what it was. Oh, I watched what's the sex in the city, ruby, ruby, what am I saying? Reboot called and just like that. Yeah, I think that's what it's called.

Speaker 1: 40:16

So I watched the second season of that and I really enjoyed it. I can't remember the first season. I think I liked the first season. Obviously I liked it enough to want to watch the second season, but I can't fully remember, like all the details. But I really loved the second season. I thought it was really really good. I really enjoyed it. So if you haven't watched that yet, that's a good show to get into this fall. I think there's two seasons if you haven't watched any of it but and it's an HBO show, I believe. But yeah, I really liked that and it has sex in the city. I didn't watch until I was an adult I was actually my breastfeeding show. So it's one of those shows where it's like, after this season I was like, oh, it kind of made me want to like start sex in the city again. But then I also feel like that would be an emotional roller coaster because it'll like throw me right back into all the feelings I had when I just had row like it was literally I had. I Said I need a show for when I have a row and I start breastfeeding. We decided on sex in the city. Trevor got it all organized for me, had all the episodes ready, and then I had row and I would watch sex in the city and there was a time when I was watching it and Trevor would come home from work for like a week, and then there was a time when the pandemic happened. All throughout, though, such big changes, I just feel like it would be a really emotional roller coaster. So I'll save it for if I ever breastfeed again, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to watch it fully right now. But yeah, that's everything I'm watching.

Speaker 1: 41:40

I, okay, I told you last week that I liked the Olivia Rodrigo album. I'm obsessed. I love it so much. I only listen to a one or one and a half times love, and I last talked to you about it. But now I've listened to it so many times. There's so many great songs on it. I'm really, really enjoying it. Yeah, it's, it's got this like Punkness to it.

Speaker 1: 42:00

Someone was saying like almost Paramore, but like I didn't. I never was a big Paramore fan. So like maybe Paramore vibes up, not a hundo, but like not too too Paramore, because I I remember not really liking Paramore growing up, like it was in my taste, so who knows? But anyways, I'm totally enjoying guts. So if you haven't listened to guts and you're looking for a new album to listen to, definitely recommend.

Speaker 1: 42:21

But that is all in all this week's episode. So I hope that everyone is getting ready for fall, but also soaking in the last bit of summer. Let me know what you're doing to soak in the last bits of summer and I can't wait to come to you next week and let you know because I about what's up and what's going on, because I have something pretty big to share, at least for me, that I'm very excited about and that's what I do here share my excitement. So love you all so much, sending you so many hugs, so many kisses and wishing you the most beautiful Sunshine filled week ahead, the best start to fall, and I love you all you.