Happy November!

In celebration of pretty much nothing, this was the setting for dinner tonight:

Yep, candlelight. With wine (Riesling), cloth napkins, and cupcakes for dessert.  Fancy, huh? Dinner was leftover homemade minestrone soup from this weekend that I have failed to get any pictures of.

We also did a load of laundry, a sink full of dishes, and cleaned the kitchen counters.  Somehow, the bedroom and living room are also both pretty clean.  I’m not sure what is going on here, but it feels wonderfully relaxing.

Here is some other fun from the weekend.

Pumpkin carving on Friday night with two spectacularly fun friends. Mine is the house with the ginkgo leaves and Matt’s is the tiny pumpkin with the crooked smile, square nose and gigantic round eyes.

Sunday night dinner spent waiting for trick-or-treaters (we eventually got a few later in the evening).  Shepherd’s pie with a stew base made from ground pork and lots of veggies, topped with mashed sweet potatoes.  With a side salad and bread (not pictured).  Finished off with a fun punch (also not pictured) and dessert of Gale Gand’s “Perfect Yellow Cupcake” with butter cream frosting (both from my stand mixer!) and a yummy homemade pumpkin pie.

The end of October/beginning of November has been very good to us.  Not least of all because my long recruiting trips for work are over and the cold weather means Santana has been extra cuddly.

Happy Fall!  Now it’s time for Thanksgiving planning!

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