This is Monica Packer from About Progress and you are listening to The Messy Middle, a monthly

series where I share some of my own messy middle so you can see what progress looks like

for a real woman in real time.

Welcome to November, I have to say October was full of tons of ups and downs but largely

quite a few ups and quite a few downs, I'll just keep coming back to that.

I'm sure you're experiencing them as well both personally and within the world at large.

I know so much is going on in the Middle East that tug at all my heartstrings every

single day and I know you're struggling through that too but let's just talk for

personally my own messy middle. Let's go to the adventures that happened this past month.

I think we really made the most of all that October could entail for our family and celebrating

fall and the harvest and Halloween. We kicked it off by going to Cross E Ranch, it's kind of this

local almost barnyard farm family festival and there's tons of kids activities are all included

in the price of admission and a corn maze and a tractor pole I guess no it's more of a hay ride

and all these other kind of fun things including like a few little quaint awesome rides

in addition to really good apple cider doughnuts and caramel apples so that was our first

foray into the fall season and it was so fun so nice. We also attended my kids'

school's harvest festival which is always a lot of fun like that was the week of prime day and

I didn't spend a single penny on you know Amazon prime day that week but I did save my pennies

for the harvest festival to get you know some knit hats and some cute dolls that were handmade and

some artwork and other fun things so that it was just fun to see my kids in their element and their

school of their school so much. We also attended a local haunted forest. We went to a neighborhood

chunker treat and Brad took the kids to this dinner theater for Frankenstein and it was really

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