Tuesday, October 22, 2024

With about a month left until Thanksgiving , I thought it was time for a good old -fashioned check in. I don’t feel like I have done much, to be honest. It was all about getting ready for Spain before Spain happened, you know?

Usually I am very good about writing community things down in my agenda and then actually doing some of them. This year it seems like I just haven’t had the time or energy to go to much!

-Decorate for fall. In the last few years, most of my stuff is just pumpkin (white pumpkins!) so it isn’t Halloween specific. This lets me have it out from September through Christmas. I do have a couple of specific Thanksgiving things that I add right after Halloween. My decor is now more nature based, neutral, and minimal I would say. – I did minimally decorate but don’t feel that I can put much out because of puppy. He is literally into everything. Oh well. I also have no fall patio decor this year. I haven’t even bought any pumpkins or mums! The weather has been weird and our ferns are still going strong.

As I decorate for fall, declutter the decor that no longer makes me happy. – I really need to go through boxes in the basement storage room.

-Celebrate fall birthdays – my twins’, my mom’s, besties Heather and Heather, and mine – We had a nice day with my kids and I went to my hometown to take my mom to lunch. I have not gotten to celebrate the September 25th and October 16th birthdays of my Heathers. I have their gifts but we have not coordinated a date yet. And, mine is in November. It’s hard enough to coordinate with one couple and two couples is even harder!

-Buy Mrs. Meyer’s acorn spice and fall leaves cleaners – possibly a candle, too – Yes, I have been enjoying my MM handsoap. I didn’t buy a new cleaner or a new candle from MM but I bought an Autumn Sangria candle from a local candle maker.

-Buy a new apple and pumpkin candle – I bought the autumn sangria candle.

-Find and cook apple recipes in September – I bought a can of apple pie filling and tried to make an apple crisp and it flopped. I cut up green apples and dipped them in caramel sauce, though.

-Find and cook pumpkin recipes in October – not yet!

-Enjoy my patio in what is possibly our best weather! – yes! I try to take advantage when I have time and when the neighbor’s ex-husband is not making noise. They’ve been divorced for 15 years and he never lived there. Some of you asked!

-Use Solo Stove – not yet!

-Buy pumpkin Premier Protein for iced coffee – yes! I ordered off Amazon and it’s yummy!

-Get a Starbuck’s PSL once – no and not sure will. I bought one from Bamboo Donuts on twins’ bday and theirs was so much better!

-Celebrate my birthday – not yet. It falls on a Saturday and I am trying to decide what to plan.

-Get my Kendra Scott piece – this might be part of my Saturday bday plan.

-Attend Ocktoberfest(s) around town – they were either when I was in Spain or busy. I would still like to find one.

-Attend the Punkin’ Chunkin’ (pumpkins catapulted into river) – yes – this past Sunday!

-Do a fall boat ride(s) to leaf peep and just enjoy boat until time to winterize – the leaves really hadn’t started to turn yet, but we do love fall boating.

-Buy good apple cider from local orchard – bought $8.99 cider from Kroger! I guess it is from a fairly local orchard.

-Make my apple cider sangria-once, yes.

-Make soup! – made potato soup and enchilada soup

-Make chili! – yes and it turned out so good!

-Go to boutique pool before it closes for the season. I have some dates reserved. It has gotten really popular and you have to make reservations on Open Table. They told me it would be open at least through September but I am hoping it will also stay open in October. – went on twins’ bday!

-Make an Octoberfest meal at home – not yet!

-Make fall margarita – not yet!

–Take fall break trip -Yes, to Spain and my heart is still full!

-Celebrate Thanksgiving with both sides of family – we have plans for one side but haven’t talked about the other.

I think I want to do a December and a January list in hopes of being more positive about January!

How have you done?

Amy

24 thoughts on “Fall Bucket List Check In”

  2. I’ve gotten most things crossed off my list already! Our fall has been all over the place weather wise so I never bothered buying pumpkins or mums either. At first it seemed much to warm then it was many nights of frost/freezing temps and this week has been in the 80’s! I wasn’t sure the plants would survive all that since I’m not great about bringing them in on cold nights.

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  4. You’ve done an awesome job with your list. I’ve only bought Kroger apple cider too. Hadley’s fave. KS for your bday…go for it. The pumpkin chunkin sounds fun & of course any time on the boat is a great way to spend a fall day. We still haven’t made it to the pumpkin patch. Hopefully this weekend

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  5. I love this! I had the thought as I wrote my list for today’s post, that I’d like to start doing this monthly as well, It holds me accountable for doing something new and different, and it gets me out of my house. That’s important to me right now!

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  6. I didn’t get my act together this year- to get a fall bucket list together- but we have done alot- just weren’t able to squeeze in apple picking- boo- nice job on yours!

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  8. This is great! I am planning on making some pumpkin chocolate chip bread this weekend. I love a fall candle! I love an apple and caramel sauce, but not so much baked apples. What date is your birthday? I love having a fall birthday!

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  9. I feel exactly the same about the trip to Spain. I was getting ready for it, and then we went, and then I was recovering from it. And that was my September and October…ha, ha! Mollie is now 10 months old, and I read that this is a crazy, teenage dog phase where they forget any commands they knew at one time. Ugh! I just got them both home from the kennel, and I’m happy to see them after our trip to Auburn!

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  10. You’re moving right along with your list. I have 18 things on my fall list and have given myself until Nov 21st to check them off. I’m halfway there. I just took a look and realize a couple of things I put on my list are ‘need to get done!’ kind of tasks and I was hoping putting them on my list would motivate me to actually do them. There’s still time lol. Have a great day!

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  11. One of these days, I’m going to do this. You’ve checked off lots of your things. I only decorated with the pumpkins I had in the house. I have lots in the attic, but I didn’t have a way to get them downstairs. I like decorating for fall almost as much as Christmas. I only have a couple of ceramic ghosts I put out, but I haven’t even put those out.

    The apple cider sangria sounds tasty!

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    1. You can even just keep a note in your phone! you should do it! They don’t have to be big things. Some years it just seems right to be minimal and go with what is easier and you had a hard time with mike’s surgery.

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