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dear people you. isn't it fun to write in lowercase sometimes? i love the simplicity of it. with the barrier of capitalization removed, the stress over having the correct punctuation is removed. not that i ever worry about that. ahem.

our recent days have been filled with autumnal things. school, apples, sweaters, tea, pumpkins, muffins, fiery leaves. fall is always the time of year in which i have an urge to cook and bake. perhaps it has something to do with the start of school, or maybe that some of my favorite foods come into season, or even yet that i get the homebug. for those of you who have not yet heard of the homebug (or know it by a different name) it's the feeling you get when you want to curl up with a book and a cup of tea or when you'll only venture out of your house bundled up in your favorite clothes and scurry back home again as soon as you can or when the things to do at home are so much more appealing than those outside in the big world. and yes, i did make that word up. it's the freedom of speech.

 in the past few weeks my mother and i have been avoiding sugar together. please notice that i said avoiding sugar and not going off sugar. it's important. it means that on the weekends we can have a leetle bit of sugar. like maybe a drop or two of syrup on our pancakes. or three or four. but the main goal (and thus far success) is not eating large daily amounts of chocolate. victory! in addition to not eating chocolate i have been feeling very up-beat the past three weeks. bouncy and happy. i rather like it.

while i'm on the subject of health, my mom got a grain grinder for her birthday (happy birthday mama!) and is really really really excited about. not kidding. we're getting healthy! thankfully everything from the simply in season cookbook is counted as healthy, because it's my new favorite book. yum yum yum! she's also been making things out of flying apron's gluten-free and vegan baking book, nourishing traditions and of course easy gluten-free baking. just some of our favorite cookbooks.

the first youth group meeting at church is tonight (my night, saturday). i'm really nervous and really happy about it. nervous because i for some reason i'm a bit scared of people older than me (ironic really because i have a lot of close friends that are older than me at home) and they're new. once i get to know them though i talk my head off. so no worries there. i won't stick in my corner all the time. i'm really super duper happy because my heart hungers for friends, friends that i can talk to face to face. i'm definitely not saying that all of you aren't my friends, far from it! you always will be! it's just nice to see people. so maybe you could pray for me that i will make new friends here? thank you buckets!