Longing

Ok, I can't helping. I'm longing for Fall. After this winter I promised myself I wouldn't diss summer and hate it and wish for it to be over. But I can't help it. Every now and then the past week I'll catch myself getting a feeling of fall. Looking out the window and it looks like it should be chilly out and I get the same feeling I get when it actually is chilly out. Thinking about apples and baked apple desserts. Thinking about years past and times I have run in the fall. The crisp air, the wet leaves under my feet. I can even hear specific things I was listening to on my walkman/disman/MP3 player. Even now, certain songs or books on tape remind me of fall because I listened to them while I ran in the fall. (That's another blog, but I miss running SO much. If this pregnancy doesn't heal my IT band, I think I'll be getting surgery. Like, I said, another blog.) I just love fall so much. I told John that when spring gets here I probably enjoy it more because it's so nice after it being so cold, but I look forward to fall so much and sometimes long for it. I have to remind myself that we only have 2 seasons in Chicago: winter and summer and that fall is at least another 6 weeks off and possibly another 3 months. And even then it might last only a week or two before winter is in full blast. Still, I can't help but long for it and hope it comes in September and lingers through until late November.