We’re not allowed to call what’s happening around here “autumn” anymore because Huck has a friend in his class with that name and it would be too confusing.  Our FALL so far has been filled with costume preparations (our home is full of various black pieces of clothing with glow-in-the-dark skeleton bones carefully painted upon them and sometimes I find a paper mache skull head in our oven), doing “homework” (reading many books to Huck and listening to him read many books to us and then logging them onto many sheets of paper that his teacher checks), missing Max (well, maybe just me), working on our play (which Troy and I have been writing for the past year and may be getting ready for a public staged reading) and just to make things interesting Huck got strep throat followed by a terrible rash (a reaction to the antibiotics) causing him to stay home from school a total of three times in nine days.  The thought of Huck missing out on all the Halloween festivities which officially begin tomorrow and don’t end till late Sunday evening was very scary for this mother.  Treats from now on please.

Here are some pictures from our Fall Walk on Sunday, which was right in between the awful strep throat and the horrific Halloween-like Rash of 2010.  Happy Fall, everyone!