Autumn

There's something about the fall, isn't there?

Crisp air, crisp apples, new crisp lined paper.

I think you all know by now

how much I love Christmas.

And fall is a very close second

It's more like 1a and 1b, really

There is something about the fall

New beginnings,

back to school, a fresh start

Then there are the Pumpkin Spice Lattes!

Perhaps you remember my

Pumpkin Spice Blog?

Fall = pumpkin spice and UBC football

I have very fond memories of that combo

I distinctly remeber stopping at the Starbucks

near W16th and Arbutus

Getting a drink with a pump pof pumpkin

Then sitting in the blue and yellow stands

cheering on the Thunderbirds

Oh, and don't forget -

School Zones apply again

And did you hear they are really crackin' down

on the speed in the school zones?

So don't EVEN ride my tail and honk at me

as I obediently go 30 past the schools

Ah, September

A new beginning

A new start

A new school year

Who loves school supplies?

Did anyone else love Back to School shopping

as much as I did?

I looked forward to those first

few weeks around the beginning of the year

Labelling all my Laurention coloured pencils

Carefully printing my name

on each of the 48 crayola crayons

Breaking in my new non-mark runners around the house

The first time sharpening those #2 pencils

Fingering the pages of my Hilroy notebooks

New lunchkits, new jeans

new gym bag

New class, new teachers

New glue

Promising myself to keep my desk clean

for the whole year

Hot dog days, assemblies,

singing the school anthem.

{What was/is your favourite thing about back to school?}