Finally Feeling Like Fall

    Arkansas weather is cray-cray.  Ever since the calendar informed us that it is officially Fall, we have had seldom "Fall" days.  It seemed like summer was never going to end! But lately? Lately it is chilly & wonderful.  Snuggle weather. I love when it gets cold outside.  I am cold-natured, which makes for a miserable time most of the time, but I love getting layered up in clothes and turning on my handy electric blanket, courtesy of my Mammaw Jack.  

    My mom makes this drink mixture when it starts cooling off outside, it's called Mullins Spice.  It's a hot apple cider mix.  But she adds red hots to the bottom of the "contraption" (we don't really have a name for the machine that heats up the drink mixture).  Let's call it an electric hot drink dispenser. But back to the red hots...YUM! I love hot apple cider but it is 10000x better with red hots dissolved in it. I really need to invest in one of those hot drink dispensers. I'm pretty sure I could drink a couple of cups of that sweet nectar of the gods every.single.day. this fall/winter and I would be A-Okay with that. I would probably drink it year-round as well.

    Remember, I'm cold-natured. ;)

    This morning there is actual frost outside.  My pretty mums are sitting on my kitchen counter, I didn't want to lose them! My electric blanket is on HIGH & my Keurig is gurgling in the background.  Oh, I also have a roast in the crock pot!  My house is about to be smelling gooood!  I have Thursdays off from school/clinical this semester.  I am trying to take advantage of these days because they won't be around for the next 3 semesters (insert pitiful, sad face)!  Also, I "slept in" until 6:15 today. I guess that is when you know that you are officially an old lady. I think Aaron's old soul self is rubbing off on me. We have gotten in bed by 9:30 the past 3 nights. Well, I say that, I really mean Sun-Tues nights, but last night was an exception. We have been nominated, along with another couple, in our SS class to be in charge of social events.  So, naturally, I have deemed us "Social Chairs". :)  We had dinner last night with another couple and a dinner turned in to a 4 hour conversation. It was fun. I am glad that we are finally connecting with some people in our SS class and that our SS class is starting to get back to a new normal.  We had a much needed split a few weeks ago. It was sad to see some of the couples go, but with a class of nearly 25 couples, it needed to happen. So anyways, we didn't get home until almost 11pm. That's late for the Nicholson's. 

    Well, the washing machine just stopped rumbling, so that's my cue! Thursdays are also catch-up day and I need to make a dent in my large pile laundry! 

-Holly