Dreams and Goals for October 2020

Let me tell you what: fall just up and exploded in our town. Has that happened where you live? Trees aren't slowly turning up here. They are just green one day and completely yellow or red the next day. It's crazy!! I would love it if that meant they would just hang on in all their brilliant color for a long fall, but I fear they'll have a quick finale and be on the ground way too soon!

So since fall hurried, I better hurry to make my dreams and goals for October! Here they are, in no particular order.

1. Finish prepping for a real live speaking engagement!

I haven't spoken to a group in person since February! Ryan and I shared a Valentine's Day talk at a church, and about a month later, quarantine hit, and I haven't been back to an event since. (I did speak via Zoom for a Mother's Day breakfast at another church.) Do I even remember how to speak?? I hope so! I am scheduled to speak at a one-day event over in Ohio this fall, and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm excited about the topic and looking forward to meeting new people and hopefully even seeing a friend from many years ago!

2. Fall pictures!!

At the rate the trees are turning, we may not have any pretty leaves in them, but I'm still excited for fall pictures - which means I really need to figure out what we're wearing this year. Ahhhh the annual conundrum, right?

3. Check out a corn maze and pumpkin patch.

This was on my bucket list for fall, but it's gotta happen in October. Ryan and I actually went to a pumpkin patch yesterday, but it was raining and I don't think the people were really crazy about being open in the rain, so we just shopped out of their pre-picked bins. Their corn maze wasn't open, which was fine, because of the aforementioned rain, but I still hope we can enjoy a trip through one before the month ends.

4. One more kayak trip.

In addition to the leaves turning, the temperature has turned a bit too, but I'm hoping we can squeeze in one more kayak trip to enjoy the pretty leaves along the water - before it gets too cold to be out on the water!

5. Finish our vacation book.

I started our scrapbook of our birthday trip from back in May. It wasn't the most picture-heavy trip we've ever taken, so I hope it's a feasible goal to finish this book sometime this month. I like to be caught up on one trip's memories before we take another one, which reminds me...

6. Figure out FOR SURE where we want to go for our anniversary.

We're just a couple of months out from our anniversary trip! We've tossed around a handful of ideas of places we'd like to visit. This trip has been complicated by the pandemic, of course. Where can we go in the winter that doesn't lean upon events or indoor places being open - in case they're not? (Plus we don't have a terribly long time that we can be gone, so we can't travel to warmer climates.)

So those are some goals for Shafferland...how about for you?