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Have you smelled it yet?
Amidst the chill in the air and the apple pies baking that wonderful aroma that opens the whole fall season, YES, I'm talking about woodsmoke. Someone's lit a fire for the first time this season and even if you don't own a fireplace there is nothing like it to put that ol' carmel apple feeling in the air.
I LOVE this time of year! I just get giddy with getting the Halloween supplies and the candy corn, the bale of hay for the front porch and the cornstalks beside the door. The fake
blood and costumes and now Halloween is even better because I have a three-year-old daughter. She is now getting way into it with me and the best part is...she likes to dress up. This year
she is a fairy princess. Glow in the dark, too! Wings and a wand, lacy pink dress, a tiara and everything!
It is true that I have been accused of going overboard. My husband always gets that patient smile when I insist on showing him all the cool decorations and trying to drag a response out
that he just doesn't feel. It's not that he doesn't like Halloween, or Autumn. In fact he loves the season, but it means something different to him. He shows it in a different way. It
took years for me not to beg him to wear a costume and force him to go to some party he really wasn't interested in.
I have gone so far as to buy him a costume even though he said he didn't want one and got angry with him for not wearing it.
You'd think after years of this kind of misunderstanding and bickering about the holiday we would begin to dread it, but we have come to a point now where we can enjoy it together in our individual ways.
Last year I wore a full costume that I started putting together in July complete head to toe and make-up. He wore a small bleeding open wound on his forehead. Enough to be a costume, but,
not enough to have to prepare too much and not so much costume to interfere with work or bathroom duties.
There it was, compromise. It's pretty cool, really. I don't have to be right all the time. He doesn't push me to like war movies and I don't make him wear the Raggedy Andy
costume.
Take a deep breath of chilled air and woodsmoke and live and let live. Bake an apple pie have a caramel apple and let your significant other do what he/she does.
It's all good.
Other articles by Tina Urbik:
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Made in America or Not
It's An Antiseptic World
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