Fall is here, obviously. If you aren't aware of that fact, you have not been looking around you. The air is cooler, the leaves are turning beautiful colors (and falling in our yards) The smell of woodsmoke is evident as people have wiener roasts, toast marshmallows and burn some of those leaves. The color orange is everywhere, Starbucks is promoting Pumpkin Spice Lattes
and real pumpkins decorate porches and yards everywhere.
Putting all these evident signs of fall aside for a minute, let me ask you, "Do you get that nesting feeling this time of year?"
I realize the term nesting is usually used in conjunction with the last few months or weeks of a pregnancy. I remember those times (5 times to be exact) but I assure you that is not the reason now. I noticed a few weeks ago, when it started getting cooler, my primal urge to bake and cook and clean and prepare the yard and house for winter became much stronger.
I started with cleaning and sorting the inside of the house. Then I moved to the outside; I scraped and painted every wooden outside door, the overhead garage door and a shed door. If it didn't move, it got painted.
I have been making things I don't usually make; peanut butter, Velveeta-like cheese, cream soup mix, brownie mix, pizza sauce...you get the idea. I bought a new cookbook and have been reading it like a novel (haven't done that in a long time) Today I made chicken soup with vegetables
Putting all these evident signs of fall aside for a minute, let me ask you, "Do you get that nesting feeling this time of year?"
I realize the term nesting is usually used in conjunction with the last few months or weeks of a pregnancy. I remember those times (5 times to be exact) but I assure you that is not the reason now. I noticed a few weeks ago, when it started getting cooler, my primal urge to bake and cook and clean and prepare the yard and house for winter became much stronger.
I started with cleaning and sorting the inside of the house. Then I moved to the outside; I scraped and painted every wooden outside door, the overhead garage door and a shed door. If it didn't move, it got painted.
I have been making things I don't usually make; peanut butter, Velveeta-like cheese, cream soup mix, brownie mix, pizza sauce...you get the idea. I bought a new cookbook and have been reading it like a novel (haven't done that in a long time) Today I made chicken soup with vegetables
and apple kuchen.
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I have been pondering this feeling and trying to decide why it seems to have taken over my life this year. I have always been a bit of a nester in the fall, but not to this degree.
I believe it has to do with the chaos in our world and while I know and believe with all my being that God is in control, I also think my need to clean, organize, bake and preserve are my control in my little world. I may not know what horrendous news will be out there tomorrow, but I know my way around the kitchen and that obviously gives me comfort.
How do you nest in the fall or do you? Leave a comment and let me know.
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