What a month!

Fall has officially come to Nebraska and that means misty rain and chilly temps. But that didn’t stop our outings.

Home Depot was out of projects again this month (why bother having a sign up page if you’re not going to keep any on hand?), so that was frustrating. If we miss out again in November I think we’ll be done trying to come to town for it — it’s going to be an excavator which Little Man will adore. We might try a different location but this has been frustrating.

Despite the rocky start, we have had a great month. Busy as ever (maybe a little too busy).

Little Man had his first school field trip. He got to ride the school bus and Mommy, Daddy, and Baby Girl got to drive up to spend the day with him at Roca Scary Farm. Thankfully the weather was beautiful, but man has Roca grown since I went last.

Then we got to meet Aunt Lindsey and Uncle Darrell’s new puppy.

The following weekend was the Cub Scouts Day of Awesomeness at our council’s outdoor learning area. The wind was very chilly and the sun didn’t come out until after we finished. That didn’t stop Little Man from having a blast with other scouts.

Then the Mister, Baby Girl, and I took the long drive back to Clarksville one last time. We had to stay on post the first night because the lock box code the realtor gave us didn’t work. I was furious! And had zero qualms about trying to call him at 2am…he didn’t answer of course. But, despite the hiccup, we had an uneventful rest of the long weekend.  I got to see my friend Kimberly and had one last Mugsy’s coffee. We picked up Little Man’s swing set and my house plants/my ceramic planters before heading back to Nebraska.

Apparently they didn’t mind the heat or lack of water. The cactuses were a little sunburned but they are all putting off blooms already (early!) and my African violet and Norfolk pine are bouncing back. We only lost one and it was already struggling before the Mister put them outside.

I can’t say the same about my left over outdoor annuals. My poor evergreens both were nothing but crispy twigs and dry needles and my mum and dianthus were toast. It must have really gotten hot and dry. Weird how that works out.

The short following week, Baby Girl decided she prefers trying to sit up on her own, so we brought out the Bumbo from Cousin Lance and let her sit on the island while we cooked dinner.

Then the Mister and I went to an estate sale with a bunch of pre-WW2 German pieces. I was so excited with my finds and only spent $10 on a handful of things, including the stein.

That weekend, we had an Lowes project and took a family outing to a smaller pumpkin patch: Bloom Farm. This was more our speed, which was great since the weather took a turn and was gloomy, windy, and chilly!

While it wasn’t Gentry Farm, it was a welcome change of pace. We even had caramel apple nachos which were perfection.

The next week brought the official end to our Clarksville era. We said our final goodbye to our home on the 22nd. While I was sad to see her go (mostly just leaving behind friends and special memories), it was freeing to be done with the whole selling process (not to mention being able to pay off our largest debts with the profit).

The end of the week featured the Night of the Great Pumpkin in Beatrice. It was most of the downtown businesses handing out candy. It was good practice for Halloween for these two.

The kids even participated in a costume contest. We didn’t win anything but they sure were cute.

That weekend, the boys went on their first camping trip for Scouts at Indian Cave State Park. It rained and was cold all weekend, but they toughed it out and had fun.

We kept the busy weekend going and also attended Trunk or Treat at our local church.

The last week of October was a short one at school. Report cards came home and Little Man is doing well. He has some reading things to work on, but he seems to be on track. We were finally contacted by the school’s speech therapist, so hopefully soon, he’ll be back to speech twice a week to work on more sound pronunciation. I’m glad he’ll have it through school instead of having to work out how to get him to/from a private office.

We wrapped up the month with Trunk or Treating on Main Street of the town next to us, pumpkin carving, and one more round of trick or treating in town.

November starts off hot with what will hopefully be a successful Home Depot workshop, followed by the chaos that starts the end of the year wind down.

We’ll have Baby Girl’s 6 month check-up. Hopefully we’ll hit all the milestones and get the green light for starting on real food.

Scouts should be calmer now that popcorn sales are over and the Mister won’t be attending his disc golf tournament in Texas this year (despite me telling him he should go). So we’ll have Thanksgiving and hopefully we can start nailing down our budget so we can really hunt for our next home.

I for one am looking forward to less running around. I feel like since we got to Nebraska, we’ve been going full tilt and the holidays are right around the corner. We’ll see if we can pump the brakes a bit. Wish me luck.

Until then,