It's All a Ploy...

Ok...I woke up this morning, certain that it would be fall feeling outside. You know...the hint of crispness in the air, a little hazy, cold enough for a jacket, and not really hot enough at the end of the afternoon to wish you'd thrown on shorts instead of jeans, the feeling that it could frost overnight, and perhaps even a dusting of snow seems like its just around the corner...

Instead, I was rudely jolted out of sleep in the dark of the new moon, at 5:30 this morning, by my Tiny Princess who was singing in her crib, and banging her empty bottle against the side to keep time. I dragged my body out of bed, stumbled downstairs and into the kitchen, made her a pre-breakfast bottle, and, after opening her door, found her, on her hands and knees, rocking back and forth, singing, and saying over and over "da da da da da"...the little monster won't even say and "M" sound... I returned to bed in the fervent hope that she would fall back to sleep...or at the very least, be quiet while she drank her bottle, and I could go back to sleep for another hour.

Alas, it was not to be...I was up, dressed, and baking Amish Friendship Bread at 7am, with Tiny Princess perched in her high chair munching Cheerios, and drinking from a sippy cup. BB's lunch was made, we'd eaten breakfast and he was out the door in the gray light of dawn. I opened the newspaper and found that the forecast says 80.

You read that correctly. It is October 1. It is officially fall. It is already 75, and it is not yet the warmest part of the day. It is insane.

My trees know it is fall, as their leaves are turning. My roses are confused, as they are continuing to bud and send forth a glorious late display of blooms. My garden continues to blossom and produce new fruit.

I now fear that it will never be fall. I will simply wake up one morning to a blanket of snow, without the scent of fall in the air beforehand. I am distressed. I think it's a ploy by the Democrats to get me to vote for them...all that global warming stuff, and now they'll probably blame the failing economy for the lack of fall! "We decided to turn off fall in parts of the country, to avoid low-income families from having to spend money they don't have on sweaters. Vote for us, we'll turn it back on, reverse global warming, turn the nation green, and give everyone $500,000 if they have a mortgage, or the deed to a house." I can just picture it now...sigh...

However, in my distress, I am continuing on with my new resolve that I will not let a day pass without doing some sort of household chore beyond the cleaning of my floors.

Today I am baking bread, and making something yummy for dinner. I am going to log off, make some lunch for myself and Captain Chaos, as Tiny Princess is sleeping. After that, when Captain Chaos goes to sleep, I will hurriedly scrub their bathroom before Tiny Princess awakens.

After dinner tonight, I will scrub the 2 remaining bathrooms.

Tomorrow I will go to my Moms' group, and then, when I come home, I'll throw something delicious together into my crockpot (maybe chicken and dumplings), and will wash my floors, and the inside of my windows.

Even if it isn't fall outside, I still have a "Fall Preparedness" check-list to go through...you know, check the door seals, clean the window tracks, clean all the "high" spots in my house, change the filter on the humidifier again...

Stupid weather...