Autumn Mix

The colours are here! And I am catching them on the go...

On errands, schoolruns, and also while out knocking on doors with the children over the weekend -- to try and sell popcorn for one son's scout troop and another son's cubscout pack!

Take five... taking in the lovely hues during the busyness of the day; look how the golds pop!

For how quickly seasons, and seasons of our lives, come and go, I'm reminded also to savour and appreciate what is in front of us!

"O taste and see that the LORD is good:

blessed is the man that trusts in him."

- Psalm 34:8

Taste the goodness

That's our autumn-coloured salad (haha!) -- before tossing it with an asiany sauce...

And fried rice, with meat I'd cooked ahead...

as time was tight. Had to whip these up quickly -- after getting the children home from one afterschool activity to get them homework-ed and fed (a snack in this case, other times dinner) to head back out again.

The salad and rice were what we brought to that fall potluck, where Jon moved a little bit up the foodchain in Scout-dom, and also earned a few more merit badges.

Enjoy yourself, I told him; he has a third campout since school started (one with the school, and other two with the troop)! :)

Such one-pot meals, and slowcooked soups and stews, are what I'm making/making ahead for our dinner more and more, not just on these busier schoolnights of hurrying with the kids from one thing to another. But also to help me be less frazzled and hopefully more organized.


Also telling myself, no matter how "mixed up" (not-on-top-of-things) our days may be, to taste God's goodness and bask in His grace. That is not about what we do or try to do.

HAPPY FALL!

Best foot forward

On your marks...


Look how they're getting ready to lunge forward...

It's FIERCE, I tell you!

And fiercer than last year, with many more runners trying to outdo one another at the zonal level -- to qualify for the All-City Cross-Country Meet!

Watching from the sidelines, that's my eldest (his hand) helping me to rein the youngest in -- so she doesn't get in the way. Or be trampled on!


That was last week. This afternoon, Meimei and I will be there again to cheer her two brothers on in a second zonal meet. It's hardly sunny today though. Both times driving out just now, I worked the wipers hard while at the same time wishing, praying for the rain, rain to go away and come again another day! Sure hope the field isn't too soaked or the forest ground too muddy. And um, just thinking maybe I should not be saying, Break a leg! -- to be taken so literally ;p

Catch and release

Sweater days have arrived, and with that, fishing season ends at this lake -- but not before we got to cast our rods there (yes)!


"I can't wait for a bite on my line!" quipped Meimei. She'd convinced her dad she was finally old enough to fish, a month plus after turning 3.

Of course she was a lot more eager to reel it in -- than you would expect a newly minted preschooler to be waiting, waiting patiently ;).


Her brothers were quite persistent, hoping to do more than a catch-and-release...

before the sun was setting already...


Although we eventually went home empty-handed, it was really nice to have caught a breather together like this :).


Such a welcome relief from the daily hustle and bustle -- *breathe in, breathe out* -- before another busy, busy week and the new season are here already!


(Fish Lake; phone pics)