OHMYGOODNESS!!!!  IT'S MY FAVORITE MONTH!  IT'S FINALLY FALL!!  

*goes to light leaf/cinnamon/pumpkin/apple orchard/yourkid'sdirtybackpack?/waffle scented candle*

I'M SO HAPPY!!  

I have been holding in my autumnal enthusiasm for as long as I could stand.  I've ordered a new sweatshirt and it's only a matter of time before I start making these and these and oh yes, definitely these.  

I am really sorry if you find this exuberance obnoxious, but if you will bear with me I promise to resist rolling my eyes when you wear flip-flops in March.  Deal? 

I looked in the mirror a few minutes ago and it was really...hazy.  This was odd because I had just cleaned said mirror less than twenty-four hours prior to this realization.  Then the horrible thought occurred to me that perhaps it was my eyes that were hazy and not the mirror itself.  I looked closer.  “It does not look dirty…,” I mentally noted.  "Oh gosh, I have an eye disease.  I should start frantically googling eye diseases to see how soon I will meet my imminent end.  No, wait...we do not go there.  Been there before.  Cried over my own imaginary funeral.  Angrily thought of Mr. Pedantic remarrying.  Composed a hit list of his possible replacement wives.  Not going back.  We are above that nonsense.”  

Now I am writing this post and still wondering if I am going blind.  If so, it is likely because I do not clean my makeup brushes.  Oops.  No judgement please, I am far too busy insta-storying.  

Can I tell you another lil’ secret?  I re-watch all my own stories, sometimes multiple times, and often with Mr. Pedantic.  It makes me feel like I am on television.  I like to call it, "The Ashlyn Show."  My six-year-old self who used to pretend like she was on Martha Stewart during bath time would be very impressed at how far I have come. 

Speaking of that domestic goddess...  Dear Martha, how how do you do it?  “With three assistants and a driver, that’s how, you peasant.”  Please, just stop. 

This is and always will be my fall drink. 

I picked up a tiny travel bottle of this body mist a couple weeks ago and I have just started using it over the past several days.  Oh my goodness, I wish I could get this scent in perfume because I LOVE IT! 

News that only five of you care about: I am finally dying my hair.  Like, I made the appointment.  It is on the calendar and I am pretty freaking excited because I have talked about taking the plunge every fall for the past six years and chickened out.  This year, I was determined to be brave and just do the darn thing.  So…pictures soon.      

I have suddenly discovered that I very much need a concrete espresso maker.  My Christmas list may be a bit more eccentric this year.  And definitely impractical, but I’m a millennial so…what did you expect? 

I think I am going to cry.  This is the theme park of my dreams. 

I heard the words “designer fruit” this week and it made me a little nauseas.  I will take my grapes grape-flavored, thankyouverymuch.  I just know that this craziness goes back to unicorns somehow. 

What are you up to this weekend?  We are taking it easy for the first time in a very long while and I am looking forward to some much needed home time.  Mostly so I can binge watch these adorable children say very adorable things while I continue to battle against the ever-constant stream of laundry. 

Happy Friday! 

Sincerely, 

Pedantic Foodie