Halloweekend

I have to start by saying Halloween has been one of my least favorite holidays. The weather being perfect, the fun movies, pumpkin picking, and having candy all over. Ugh!! No but really it is so stressful for me haha. Coming up with a costume for me starts in August and I can never decide. And like when the weather starts getting cold I am just ready to celebrate Christmas. I am one of those people and will forever be.

This Halloween actually defied my usual feelings about the holiday. Braeden came in town and actually agreed to match me!! You know I milked this situation as much as I could. I think we turned out being pretty cute!! We were Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo.

It was super fun and such an easy costume!!

We spent the weekend totally chilling. I feel like every time Braeden comes to KS I always have and agenda of things I want to do. And although we are having fun together, it gets exhausting. So this time we watched lots to The Good Doctor, went to Target, tried a new restaurant, and made some yummy food. Oh my gosh we made the best buffalo chicken dip for NFL Sunday and ate all of our feelings away because both our NFL fantasy teams lost:( then we made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies to even it out.

I get to go home in less than a month and I am more than excited. I can't wait to see my lil siblings and doggies. I miss them a lot!!

I have recently started a new anxiety medication and it has been helping a lot with the thought that "the world is going to end if one thing in my life goes wrong". That has been quite nice I will say. I am still working on my inner self-talk which has been a negative Nancy this school year. I am definitely someone who this will not be easy to just X out of my mind but I am finding ways that help. Like blogging, smiling and intentionally hyping myself up when I know that I have something I am worried about coming up. Such as swim meets, which I have been stressing over for no reason but you know sometimes I can't help it. I guess I really do care about swimming when I say I don't ahhaha. I will continue to learn how to give myself a bit of grace in this plan God has created for me. You guys should remember to do that too.

Keeping going, there are such bright times ahead!

One last thing!! Christmas is in 53 days

<3

Elliott