For many, Labor Day marks the "end of summer". However, around here, we still often get summer like temperatures well into September. In fact, last year when my parents came in November, it was still in the mid 70's most days. This summer has been unbearably hot (and humid), but I was still surprised to see it go away so quickly. Two weeks ago, we had lots of rain and cool weather. This was followed by a fairly sticky and hot Labor Day. Last week you could feel a definite change in the air. Gone was the thickness in the air and it was replaced by a feeling of fall. Then the temperatures shifted too, and this weekend we were dressed in long-sleeves and light sweaters to deal with the 60 degree days. The kids noticed the difference and started remembering all their favorite things that start happening when the jeans and sweaters come back out-i.e. Halloween, pumpkin patches, and eventually Christmas. I decided I would commemorate these changes by taking a weekly photo from our great room window. This is what it looked like this week.
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Of course, this is also the time of the year when things get darker earlier, and brighter earlier as well. So it was time to put up the custom roman shades in the kids bedrooms. We have them for the other windows as well, but we will hold off hanging them until the windows are painted. That should be by Julia's high school graduation, I hope.
Alas, Julia, my early riser, enjoys getting up before the sun so she can see her friends to like to come and visit in the morning
To wrap up this week, I have some pictures of Andrew at the breakfast table showing us his many faces
And a final picture, I call this "ode to Liam", since he was copying a pose from his cousin that was taken a couple weeks ago by my brother
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