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Yesterday looked something like this.

So I opened all the windows to get a pretty view of the fall foliage and to let in the sunlight and cool fall breeze, turned on some relaxing tunes, and spent the morning and most of the early afternoon cooking up a storm of festive fall treats and comfort food. After moving last weekend, working constantly, and being sick for a week, It was so calming to enjoy my down time in peace.

I took a break mid-afternoon to go teach a musical theatre class, then headed over to the sweet little house with the fire pit we lovingly made (that we are still renting until the end of this month) to prepare for the fall fest bonfire extravaganza we were hosting that night as a get-together with my fellow theatre interns.

Shortly after the sunset the gang arrived. We chowed on my homemade Texas chili, pumpkin mac n’ cheese, green apple and dried cherry waldorf salad, hot apple cider mulled with oranges, cinnamon sticks and cloves, and caramel stuffed apple cider cookies. They were all delicious and the pumpkin mac n’ cheese was a wild success – it positively flew out of the casserole dish. And the caramel apple cider cookies were another big hit. They will be permanently added to my iPad’s recipe book and I think I’ll have to make them often!

Ted built up the most wonderfully toasty bonfire and kept it going for us. We planted ourselves outside around the fire to roast peeps, make s’mores, and talk away the evening. Glow sticks may have been involved.

After a few hours we headed inside, laid out a giant tarp in the kitchen (this is where having a completely empty house comes in handy!), and hopped to making a huge slimy pumpkin gut mess as we drew our designs, carved our masterpieces, and clawed through the goop to salvage the pumpkin seeds for the roasting.

And a good time was had by all.