A Month of Thanks

In October, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in Canada. And while we tend to be very warm, welcoming and accommodating here in the North, I think we all go just a little bit further during these cooler months. We pause, give thanks to friends and family but also to those in our community in need. Perhaps it has something to do with the cruelness of winters here that we feel the need to let the warmth come from within us.

Either way, autumn has to be one of my absolute favourite seasons. In fact, I was recently listening to the Ologies podcast with Alie Ward and she said she had a theory that everyone's favourite season is the one their birthday is in and perhaps that explains my family's obsession with Fall and Christmas. Majority of us were born October - December (sorry pops - no spring babies counted here). There are also so many fantastic quotes about this time of year that lend themselves to the magic of the season. I've included a few of my favourites here:

• “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” - Lucy Maud Montgomery
  
• “The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” - Unknown
  
  

So while the nights start to draw in, and the long hot days of summer slip away, I'm going to smugly sit here, piling some freshly chopped wood into our fireplace. I'm going to let the dancing glow of the flames mimic the beautiful golds and reds outside my window and enjoy this fantastic reminder from Mother Nature that we can all slow down a bit now, we can shed that which doesn't belong anymore and spend the colder months doing a little work on the inside - inside our homes and inside our hearts.

How about you? I'd love to hear which season is your favourite and why!