Changing Seasons

I've seen many blog posts recently about the change in weather.  Well, I had a "moment" a few days ago when I finally packed up Ashtyn's teeny tiny summer short-shorts to donate to the Infant Crisis Center.  It suddenly hit me that never again would Ashtyn fit into such small little shorts.  Even more difficult was realizing that more than likely, never again will I personally have the need to purchase such short-shorts for a "baby" of mine.  Peter & I are fairly certain that Ashtyn will be our only child.  We have debated this many times and we still have not hit our 100% certainty mark but most likely this is the case.  I cried as I packed them away.
I usually am in love with the change of the season to Fall.  The beautiful leaves, the "clean" smelling air, the ability take walks in the evenings and not need to shower afterwards from the humidity...
I love the months that end in "ber" in general.  September (my birthday, the beginning of yet another season...FOOTBALL season! BOOMER SOONER!), October (Halloween parties & fun!), November (Thanksgiving meals with family), & of course December with all the joy that Christmas brings with family, friends, Christmas lights, parades, parties, shopping & giving to others.
However, for some reason, I feel a little sad with this years "change".  It may be that we just have too many life changes right now.  We have sold our home & our living in the rental house which is not ideal, Peter has changed jobs, I have had a new surgeon come work with us at the VA, only to give his notice 7 months later just as we were getting used to him, a new P.A. works with us now also & that in itself is both a relief & stress in a way, & then of course we are in the process of building our new home and that is keeping us so busy & yes, some things have gone wrong in the building process just as people said it would.
A couple of friends of mine have had some serious life-changing events as well & I worry about them.  I worry also that I have so much going on that maybe I'm not being the best friend I could be...
Oh...but the change of the season...what else will it bring?

The pix are from our most recent session for Fall last month in September.