Honestly Hawley {October}

I didn’t realize October was so busy until I started looking through the pictures to write this post.  I guess I didn’t realize it in the moment, but I’m honestly impressed that so much was accomplished last month.  It was definitely a fun month and I can tell that Ellis is just zooming along in her growth.  She is developing such a fun personality as you’ll be able to see in a lot of these pictures.  I anticipated a fun and fast fall and that is exactly what we got.  This month was Halloween, a trip to the beach, lots of arts & crafts, hosting National Night Out, a trip to the pumpkin patch, and so many more fun things.  It has brought me so much joy to embrace this season with my babies. Looking through these pictures again, reviewing the month, makes me feel like this has been my favorite month so far, but I probably thought the same thing last month and the month before that.  Anyone else think that way? If looking through these pictures gives me the warm & fuzzies now, I can only imagine how much they will make me tear up in 5 years.  I’ll probably need a beach towel for my tears in 10 years, and in 20 years…..I’ll be a lost cause hehe

So here are the honest, unedited, unscripted scenes of our October life :-)

June ~ July ~ August ~ September

I'm Not Old Enough

Does anyone else feel like this? Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror and shock yourself? Like truly see a person that you're not sure you actually know? I don't know if this ever happens to you, but sometimes I think back to what I thought was "old" when I was a kid and now that I've arrived at "old" I realize how young I still am.   I don't have a problem with the concept of aging, but "old" wasn't really old. Or maybe I've got a new idea of what "old" is and when I arrive at that age I will change my definition of old again. I remember one year for Halloween I was a Granny to go trick or treating.  What kid does that?! I was a weird kid! Sometimes I feel like I am a 10 year old trapped in the body of someone much older.   And then sometimes I think about the decisions I have to make and the responsibilities I have worked hard for and I think to myself "Darby you are not old enough for this". Where I am at now, just seemed so far away, but is now here.  Maybe that's a good thing, and I am still a child at heart and yearn for the mentality and innocence of a child?   Maybe it means I still have so much left ahead of me? Maybe I'm in some major denial, and I really am old enough? Maybe sometimes we really are never old enough for the weight and responsibilities of this world? Or maybe that's a built in plan for us to seek the Father and to be more dependent upon Him because we will never be "old enough" to handle earthly responsibilities? "Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken" Psalm 55:22

 

What I'm Lovin' Wednesday: We Don't Judge

I'm sorry, I just can't get over this commercial. I laugh every. single. time.