Fall... pessimist style

I like it that it is getting cooler and fall is here, but there are a few reasons why I dread this season:
1. Those little floaty spider webs. I HATE those. I am not overly found of spiders, particularly since one (a brown recluse, no less) decided to bite me when I was 11 and instead of giving me the ability to climb up walls and shoot spider webs from my wrists it left me with a gaping hole where my side used to be. Eww is right! I haven't been able to forgive the little buggers ever since, any of them. And I hate how they leave their webs everywhere, and those little strings seem to be floating around me where ever I go. What's worse is I realize these are substances that have shot STRAIGHT OUT OF A SPIDER'S LITTLE BUM!!!
2. House flies. We haven't had a fly in our house all summer, and now since there is just the tiniest hint of a chill in the air they think they are somehow welcome to come crash at my place for the winter. What makes it worse is we don't seem to own a fly swatter, so the little devil flies around all afternoon and has decided that my upper lip makes the perfect landing pad.
3. Trying to figure out what to wear. It's cold in the morning so you put on pants and long sleeves. Then it decides to warm up in the afternoon and your roasting. So you put on short sleeves and capris, and then before you know it it's freezing again. Along with this is trying to figure out when to turn on your furnace for the first time.
4. Trying to help my indecisive 6 year old decide what to be for Halloween. Although this year he is pretty sure he wants to be a robot. Pity I don't know how to weld or write complicated computer programs. Nah, we'll just use cardboard boxes and duct tape.
5. Realizing there's only a couple months til Christmas. My mother-in-law (bless her) already has all her presents wrapped. I'll be lucky if I'm not frantically running around on Christmas Eve trying to find any open stores so I can begin my shopping.
6. Realizing I'm not thankful enough for all that I have. Oh sure, on Thanksgiving I pause to think about all the blessings I have, but really shouldn't that be the point of everyday? So what if there are spider webs and annoying flies? So what if I have to change clothes or "layer" in order to make it properly clothed through the day? I have so much to be thankful for, so many things to thank God for. Maybe I'll be able to focus on that, instead of the spider webs, and annoying flies, etc., etc.

I love my kids!!

I took this picture yesterday and thought it was too cute not to share. Brian had 50 free prints from Costco that had to be used, so I thought I would snap a few pictures of the kids. The size difference between their heads cracks me up.