11.1.2014 - for preserving and that smell

I am so happy that it is November. Like, I have been completely giddy and excited the past few days. I was looking at what I did last year and remembered how much fun I had writing up simple things I was grateful for. So I'm doing it again, only last year I started part way through the month, not so this year :) I'm starting at the beginning. 

Obviously I am incredibly grateful for my family, and really this whole blog is dedicated to how much I love them and our memories. So you won't be seeing posts about them individually, unless there is something unique on a certain day that I am just so incredibly thankful for...we'll see.

The first day of November we put away all of the Halloween decorations - I was so over it, washed sheets, cleaned the house, and then spent the afternoon making applesauce. My dear friend gave me two boxes of apples AND let me borrow her Victorian Strainer so that we could turn those apples into some deliciousness. 

That whole day I kept thinking, I am so grateful for fruit, for inventions to help in preserving the fruit in different ways, for good people who share their produce, for help from my husband and our babies, and definitely for the smell of cinnamon and apples filling our home on that windy day.