The sun is falling earlier these days. Daylight savings makes the light shift that much more acute, making us feel like squirrels bedding down for the winter. We feel ourselves curling up in our den around the fire with our favorite blankies, books and mugs of warm something or others. It’s a good time of year. If the sun peeks out though…

We’ve committed to daily walks as a family. It’s only a mile or mile and a half every day, but it’s been lovely to get outside to breath the autumnal air.

Guinevere has taken to running for most of the mile while Jude runs for about 1/4 of a mile before he slows his pace to a walk. As he walks, we hear the most fabulous stories about robots and giant ants, about otter boy, about trolls and any other thing his brain comes up with. He has plans with his dad to open a comic book studio someday and they are going to need a lot of stories.

I think walking as a family is helping to keep us connected. It’s on these walks when I do my best listening to this girl. It’s when she confides things in me and asks lots of questions about things, holding my hand, chattering away about every thing that her brain comes up with too.

Our loyal hound Martha. Whenever we go for walks she always get so excited that she gets this really viscous spit that wraps over the top of her nose. It’s really gross. I remember seeing a dog like that once, before I had my own dog who does this, and thinking how horribly disgusting it was. Teach me to judge. Upon seeing this Jude hollered, “Ohh disgusting! Martha squirted snot across her nose!” A small price to pay for the greatest joy known to this pup.

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