Short of Christmas, Fall is my favorite season. Apple cider, pumpkins, cool weather, hoodies and boots. But the best part of fall are the great crafts. You can virtually make a craft out of anything so Audrey and I decided to make our first fall craft yesterday. Chris was leaving for the afternoon and I didn't think it would have been so hard. He was driving about an hour and a half with my brother to look at a truck but that meant he was gone for the afternoon.... for the first time since he got home from Afghanistan. He has been home for 1 week and we have spent about every second of that week together. For an entire year he was gone and I was left alone. When he left yesterday I looked around and somehow I was overcome by emotion. It brought back that entire year of sitting at the kitchen table just Audrey and I. An entire year of cleaning the house alone or having coffee alone. This week has been so wonderful as we spend time together that I didn't even think about how much the last year sucked but when he was gone all afternoon all those emotions came rushing back in. So Audrey and I had to stay busy. I wrangled up some fall supplies and we painted a pumpkin!
Just a foam pumpkin, some paint, and a few fake leaves off of a wreath hot glue gunned to the top!
I understand this is not a perfect paint job but that's what makes it great. Audrey helped with the dots and I just drew the "M" on the pumpkin with a pencil and I guided her and she did most of it! So a super simple craft to officially start Fall and the end of deployment for the Miller house!
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