That time of the year

It is that time of the year once more, when nature gets really magical; when we try to take as many pictures as possible to capture the wonderful display of beauty nature reserves for us once a year. It is all about bright colors right now and weather is almost perfection; fall season is peaking around Madison. It is a short season though, really only a few weeks before trees get all naked and wintry looking. This prelude before winter really hits town, is just too short for us, the ones who love fall.

Grandma is about to arrive to Madison and she will spend her birthday here. That’s another magical thing happening. As you might know, she lives many many miles away from us and having her in town is a big deal for our family. This year she’ll be trick or treating with D, -so excited about that too.

Trying to be out as much as we can these days and very aware of the fact that at some point during the winter we get bad cases of cabin fever, so play-dates, bike rides, weekend outings, whatever, but out of the house. As pretty as they are, Midwest winters aren’t easy sometimes.

We went to busy barns this past weekend. It has become an October tradition. We invited our little friend Lucy and it was a lot of fun. If you live in the area or you are visiting Madison and have kids, I highly recommend this very cool farm. Lots of things to do and many baby animals to pet.

Some pictures to share.
Enjoy the rest of the week. We are in a countdown to Sunday, when grandma arrives.

Kindergarten

It seems we have finally found a school we really like for D. to start elementary school next fall. I know, it seems so early to start the process, but in order to pick the school we really wanted we needed to start this early. What a relief. What a big relief. We toured at least 10 schools in the last 2 months. In our district, out of our district, public schools and private schools, charter schools and whatever's left in the middle, and somehow there was always something that didn't click to me when touring all those schools. All of them -btw- with very high scores and super nice reviews, but still, there was something that didn't convince me. It happened the same to me when I was looking for preschools for D. two years ago. I visited many, until I went to one that felt right to me instantly, it felt right in my heart. And that was how I felt yesterday morning when we visited the very last school in our list to tour, it felt right. I liked the school, thank God, I liked ...

Lately

It's been so long. I feel I haven't post anything in ages. Life has been seriously busy lately, that's why. And it seems that is the general tendency among friends. Whoever I talk to, they are trying to juggle a million things at once. That's life these days, I guess. The news have been scary, lately. Around the globe. Very scary. This year we have seen all kind of sadness, craziness, nonsense around the world. Even natural disasters have been horrific. And it seems it escalates year after year. To be honest the last few motnhs I have felt the need to hide, to retreat and protect my loved ones. To move somewhere where nothing can reach us, not even social media or TV... -especially social media and TV- But how? How we protect the people we love? How do we hide? Where do we go? Not sure where the world is going and if you have kids it can get really really scary at times. Is this the world we are leaving to them? What I'm sure about though is that more ...

Madison in the summer

For some reason, I don't want to let go of the idea of warm summer-days this year. Every year and right at this point when summer is kind of fading away and the cool breeze rolls into the city, I usually feel excited and inspired by the arrival of the Fall season and its beautiful colors; not this year. I'm longing for more sunny days, and sunshine and summer scenes like the ones below in my pictures. Not ready for layers yet. Not ready for cold days. But we live in the northern midwest area of the country and seasons don't play around here, they get on time and do their job. I won't complain much, still three full weeks of summer (with grandma and grandpa) and to be fair September is a gorgeous month in Madison as well. Some pictures of beautiful Madison in the summer. Good week to all. Peace and good health, friends.

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