I LOVE OCTOBER. It’s the beginning of my favorite time of year, now through January. I love the cooler weather, the holiday decorations for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I love a fresh start to a new year. I love my birthday. It’s all so good. Without further ado, 31 things I’m grateful for in October.

1. The start of the best part of the year (October - January)

2. Watching the sunrise at the beach with Lucy

3. A new roof

4. Our nieces decorating our house for Halloween

5. Coffee

6. Another year of Christopher <3

7. Family close by

8. Voting - Have you voted? Do you have a plan to vote? Please vote.

9. Getting cards in the mail

10. Attending a very sweet, special wedding

11. New speakers for our living room

12. Ore-Ida Just Crack an Egg breakfast cup

13. Getting to chat with my work friends for a couple hours

14. Animal Crossing

15. Trader Joe’s

16. Picking out all of our kitchen and bathroom renovation stuff and scheduling a start date!

17. Making soup

18. A playdate with the nieces

19. Costco

20. FaceTime

21. Fall candles

22. Lucy snuggles while I work

23. Jeremiah’s Pumpkin Pie Italian Ice

24. A productive day of packing to prepare for our renovation

25. Making a fun Halloween shirt

26. Taking the day off work to have a quintessential Orlando day - Beefy King for lunch, Gideon’s Bakehouse Frankenstein cookie, and a latte from Lineage Coffee.

27. Getting fun mail from my nieces, including drawings and temporary tattoos.

28. My Kermit costume for a Zoom Halloween staff meeting

29. A cool enough day to work outside

30. Virtual Rocky Horror Picture Show performance

31. Another year of Mark

Happy best time of the year! I hope you had a great October!

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