Oh, Great Pumpkin, where are you?

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau

Topical Tuesdays

I have a few friends who like to blog – a few I’ve been in blog projects with before, and we all love to write! Each of us are on a different journey within our separate lives, but want to continue to share the blogging journey with each other! We’re going to take turns coming up with a topic every Tuesday and we each have to blog about it by the end of that day and then we will post links to each others’ blogs. That way we can each share our different perspectives on the same topic with each other, and any readers that are interested in what we have to say!

My fellow bloggers are:

Nicole
Sara
Jenn
Wendy

It’s my turn – Topic:  Pumpkins.  Now, go!

It’s that Season again.  Fall.  The air gets cooler and crisper.  The leaves turn beautiful shades of orange, red and yellow.  People start wearing warmer clothes.  School has begun, and people have started thinking about Halloween and Thanksgiving!  It’s the time of year that Starbucks brings back their delicious Pumpkin Spice Latte.  Oh.  My.  Gosh.  Yes.

This drink is fantastic, and makes the start of the Season, oh so much more delish.  Normally I am a Caramel Macchiato kind of girl, but this time of year, I LOVE anything and everything pumpkin!  I love Pumpkin pie, and this year, I’m even going to try making a Pumpkin Cheesecake.  I know it will taste divine!!  I’m even asking my hubs to make me some Smashing Pumpkin Beer!!  Ohhhhh, yeah!!

Before kids, I was never a Fall kinda’ gal.  I love my Summers.  Give me HOT & DRY, a pool & a cool daiquiri in one hand and ice-cold water in the other, and I am in heaven.  Since I’ve had kids, though, I have come to appreciate and even start to love Fall.  It’s beautiful.  I walk out side and can smell how fresh everything is.  You can smell the cold snap in your lungs and it just brings every part of your being awake.  It’s  not too cold yet, where you have to bundle up and drink something….  anything, just to warm up and to get rid of the chill.  It’s when you drink something warm to ENJOY it.  Savor it.  Let the taste of Pumpkin linger on your tongue and let it warm everything from your fingertips to your toes.

Honestly, I just need to have a part-time job at Starbucks just for the fact that I need to be able to feed my addiction to coffee and tea year round.  When they had the Berry Chai Tea…  That was another one that reminded me of pie.  Maybe it’s not just Pumpkin, but that my drinks need to taste like Homemade Pie.

Yum.

Well, I just need to say – that the person who created the Pumpkin Spice Latte – I am grateful!  It is delicious and I love the taste!  It brings my Fall in with a warmth of heart and soul, and keeps me going, even though it seems like the mornings are earlier than I want them to be.  Pumpkins are a reason to smile, on a cool Fall day.  There is so much to look forward to in the Fall!  Going to the Pumpkin Patch and everyone picking their very own perfect pumpkin, letting it hang out on the porch until carving day.  Saving the seeds to make a delicious and healthy snack!  Taking pictures of everything!!  Some of my absolute favorite pictures of the kiddos are when they are picking out Pumpkins.  I hope these are times that they will remember when they are older.

And I just love it when Audrey looks at one of the mini-pumpkins and says, “Ohhhhh!!  It’s a baby one!!  Can we get it, so it can be by the Mommy pumpkin!!”  That’s my girl.

I also love Punkins.  I’ve got four that I love to pieces.  But that’s a whole entirely different topic, for an entirely different day!! 

So, my friends, go out and enjoy a Pumpkin Spice Latte!   I’m sure I will do the same sometime REALLY soon!

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