An old, purple witch

Maybe this fits the halloween vibe or something but I don't really believe in or celebrate halloween so here is this post. I remember reading a story when I was younger about a nice old witch and the vibe and storyline came to me today AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT'S CALLED. I don't even know if it's in the house anymore. Here are all the facts I remember:
- lives in cottage alone
- wears a purple dress and has gray hair and wears a witch hat
- she made a stew I think
- mixed up a spell and turned the grass blue and the sky green
- she and the animals fixed the spell
- this was in a children's book I read when I was younger
- short story and hardcover and the pages were the glossy kind and had a certain smell to them
- and the background and colors were watercolor-like and very appealing to the eyes
- the witch also had a broom
- she was a nice witch

Best October🍂🍃

 I'm drinking in all of this glorious weather like a parched man in a vast desert whose finally reached a spring of water. I know this weather is probably a fluke and won't happen again- it's too good to be true- so I'm savoring so much of it before the warm breezes, pink-purple sunrises, and blazing leaves all begin to disintegrate. Octobers are the best and this one is the best of all. I wish it could stay like this forever. This morning especially has been my favorite. I've been walking most mornings just so I can behold the beauty of it all. I just wanted to stand still on top of that hill and stay there.

TODAY💜

Yes. Today was a Yes. Gosh I went on two bike rides today and went to the library. Just enjoying this time. Gosh there's so much beauty today. The breeze reminds me of this verse in Genesis: When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden (3:8). And I think that's why October is one of my favorite months and why it's so calming for me. It's a gentle  and quiet month. It rained last night and the leaves are falling, so full of color. The clouds are...... oh my. The trees are my favorite thing I think. Mine are still green and I love them so... just wow God's beauty is here today. It's so comforting. Just most recently for the past few weeks I've considered the Garden of Eden and Eden in general and what God intended with us and that feeling of intimacy with Him in that garden. And I'm longing for that garden now. I want that garden now. I want to be in that garden and I don't want to leave. Fully enveloped in intimacy and being with God. The amount of love that most have been in that garden. Full of love. Surrounded with his pure love.  

IT'S HAPPENING!!

It's finally happening! The leaves are changing colors. It's so wonderful AHH I LOVE IT!! I feel like October will bring lots of things. I can't believe thanksgiving is next weekend. This is by far my favorite time of year. I get to wear comfy pants and plaid sweaters! It also makes me want to run around in an open field and jump in piles of leaves. I think there is something to be said that red is my favourite color as well. 🍂😁

Memories of younger school days

I've been thinking about what I remember from the lower grades (things that have stuck with me all this time) and suddenly this list appeared. So yeah. Enjoy reading this list and withhold judgement?  

- magic treehouse book series
- doing Can you escape? game on a teachers tablet and getting pulled out of class to do so.
- carried pokemon cards with me cause I liked the pictures
- had a crush on the school mascot when I was in kindergarden
- city of ember book
- Sammy The Bus Driver
- BFG by roald dahl
- LEGO Ninjago
- good dog (book by dan gemeinhart)
- looking at a close up photo of a fly's eye (creeped me out)
- playing with and losing a fidget cube
- reading narnia
- wore hello kitty in kindergarten (socks + shirts)
- tic tac toe with my favorite teacher while everyone else played on the playground and when neither of us won it was called a "cats game"
- book corners in one class 
- getting up from the carpet because the teacher called my name and someone took my spot so I had to read at my desk
- tights??
- didn't have many friends...
- taught myself how to skip rope after I wanted to hang out with 2 girls but they would only let me join them if I knew how to skip rope
- making leaf bouquets with dead leaves in the fall
- class dojo (pls tell me you get this) 
- knowing how to make envelopes from paper (kindergarten)
- paper bag puppets :> (for valentines day)
- stamping things with faded red/pink/green stamps
- writing that the answer to a math equation was 7 even though I knew that wasn't possible in any way
- Ms. Reid's class
- making a mouth with my hand (thumb rests at the pointer & ring fingertips) and giving it a voice?