My Noise Makers...

Its sad that summer is almost over and school is starting soon. I love fall as a season I love the cooler days that let you wear sweaters that have been packed away all summer and I love the color change of the leaves and the pumpkins and apple pie and the golden fields of dry corn stalks but I always start to feel really wistful when the nights get colder and the days shorter, I always feel like there is more that I should have done...should have taken the girls to the beach more...should have spent more time in the garden...should have planned more family things. I usually stop feeling this way right around the time the first bunch of leaves start to change... funny how a small thing like the sun shining through orange and red and yellow can completely turn your mood around .I think the woods even smell different in the fall, when I walk through the woods behind our house in the spring everything smells damp and there is such a strong scent of soil and earth... it smells new. In the fall the woods smell warm and dry and fresh. Maybe I'm strange ...but that would be the way my senses take it in. Yesterday me and my girls spent the day doing something that we have to do every fall...school shopping...I have very mixed feelings about this particular fall event. For the most part I look forward to it and even enjoy watching them pick out their new backpacks and folders and lunch boxes but deep down I feel a little sad at the thought of them starting school and leaving the house every morning and not returning until the day is almost completely over. I know that this is probably not something that most parents are feeling right now in fact most parents are probably counting down the days... minutes and seconds until the big yellow bringer of silence parks at the end of their driveway and picks up the screaming...fighting noise makers and hauls them off to school. And I would be a big fat nasty liar if I didn't admit that there are days when I wish I could just stuff my two in the truck and drag their little butts off to the the class room...like "I" care that the teacher needs a summer vacation!! There "are" days that they are fighting and screaming and driving me completely insane with the "I'm bored"and "there's nothing to do". But there are also the days that we just spend all day together and its perfect and fun and there is constant noise and chatter in the house and life is great. Silence is golden but chatter is fleeting and I would rather have a million days of my home filled with giggles and screaming and chattering... there will come a day not so far away when the walls of this house will not echo their voices.. the girls will have their own lives...until that day I think I will cherish the "Noise".....