I may have to turn in my millenial woman card for this… but I’m not a pumpkin spice gal. I LOVE autumn, leaves, pumpkin patches, and all things cozy, but when it comes to pumpkin spice… I just don’t get it. I love to bake something with pumpkin once or twice a season, and I love getting a cozy seasonal latte, but I’ll never really understand the appeal of a PSL.

Pumpkins on the other hand…

This year when I was doing my annual pumpkin haul at Trader Joe’s (because they have the cheapest fairytale pumpkins) I got some side-eye from fellow shoppers as I balanced greek yogurt on an overflowing cart of pumpkins.

The cashier looked at my cart and said “Wow, is Halloween your favorite holiday?”
I said, “Nope, not really.”
“Top three?”
“Nah… you should see me at Christmas.”

After seeing some of the wild Halloween-inflatable-filled yards around our neighborhood, I think mine is pretty tame, but I do love a cute pumpkin porch. I’m not a spooky Halloween lover, but I’ll do fall all the way.

My 18 month old keeps moving the pumpkins around, and she loves “smelling” (licking) the mums. I hope this enthusiasm for holidays holds up, because I really need her to be as crazy about Christmas as I am.

I had hoped these would hold up until at least after Halloween, and used a bleach/water solution to clean them. Unfortunately, the southern heat got the best of them, and I’ve already had a couple pumpkin casualties.

Here’s hoping the rest of these pumpkins last until I can get my Christmas act together. Halloween really is a placeholder holiday to get us through to Christmas. That’s a hill I’ll die on.

xo

Grace