Officially Fall

So, you probably know by now that I love fall. There is no other time of year when the cool temperatures and crisp blue sky and the smell of pumpkin bread collide in ultimate seasonal perfection.

And it makes me so happy that I have a little girl that I can use as an excuse for going to the pumpkin patch. It's fair to say that I love it every bit as much as she does. And much to Ricardo's disgust, I keep the pumpkins around the house, as decoration, as long as I can. I think it was around February when he finally told me, "Look...these things have got to go." And I only agreed because they were starting to rot a little.

I am so far off topic.

My point in all of this is...I really wanted to do something with my blog design that was warm and cozy and seasonal-y. But I am frugal. I have been wandering around to different blogs, sighing over the cute designs and wanting one of my own, but knowing that I just could not justify spending money on it right now.

And so because I had absolutely nothing to do this weekend (cough *exceptclean* cough), I sat myself down and tried to make sense of this whole design thing. I had no clue what I was doing, but Google covers a multitude of sin HTML ignorance. Or is it even HTML? See, I don't even know. But this is what I came up with. The perfectionist in me is having a hard time with all of the glitches and design flaws that are glaringly obvious to me, but the practical person in me is saying, "Ummmm...it is now 1:00 a.m., I'd really like to sleep if you don't mind...give it up already." So Practical Me is winning out on this one.

I also made some fantastic pumpkin cookies this weekend, which clinched all the feel-good fall feelings around here. I used a relatively healthy recipe, but then I could not resist topping them with a caramel drizzle. Which might have un-done the health aspect, but oh, they were good.

Happy Fall, everybody!