Who's your acorn?

Well, I'm ready for the fall -- come on already!!

This morning, as I was getting ready for work, Evan came running into my room - jumped into my bed and hid himself under the covers. I can tell the boy did not want to wake up! I greeted him with a morning hug (he's still under the covers) and was so tempted to jump in the bed too! He was so warm...I told him he was an acorn, and I'm the squirrel. I'm going to bury him until the spring! His reply, "okay mommy". We have tons of squirrel's in our yard due to the many trees that surround our house. And those trees have lots of acorns. The squirrels have daily parties at our house. We know, because we hear them up on our roof just prancing away and then occasionally, we hear acorns dropping. Either there's a squirrel up in the tree shaking the branches, or the squirrels have dropped their acorns on our roof. I'm telling you...there's plenty to go around!

Boy, I wish I was a bear so that I can hibernate. I know as the weather gets cooler, I'll be the one still in the bed not wanted to get up.

I'm thankful for a short work week. We have tons of stuff going on this weekend. Actually, we've been quiet busy these past few weekends. Cy has been working on putting in a new drainage field in our backyard. Poor guy...he's worked so hard. He has been up before the sun rises and doesn't come back into the house until well after dark. Last night he got in at 1:30 this morning. I know we're saving a lot of money doing this work ourselves - removing four huge trees, trenching ditches, cutting concrete, pounding asphalt pavement, installing new PVC drain pipes from our septic tank, etc. We've saved thousands of dollars doing it and I know in the end, we'll be a happy family again. Just two more days until it's over!!! I'll post some pics on my Picasso picture site. Check it out:

I'm doing my part by staying out of the way and watching Evan. Well, Evan and I did help out a little bit on Sunday. Who's going to move the big tree branches out of the way? Somebody has to do it! So, after taking our Sunday nap - Evan and I ventured out to the backyard and helped drag the branches to the street. It was a good bit and I tell you, I was wiped out afterwards. We were pretty proud of ourselves and stayed out until dark. While we did that, Cy continued to move the big tree trunks out of the way. He used the bobcat for that job!

There's so much stuff going on....it'll be a while before I can get you all up to speed on my life. Until next time - who's your acorn?