Dear Fall,

It may not even be mid-September, but I am jumping for joy that the best season of the year is approaching. The minute the air feels cool and crisp, the brain automatically registers that PSL season is upon us. I have the sudden urge to go to Home Goods and buy pumpkin scented candles, make pumpkin bread and drink hot apple cider. But mostly, the urge to drink Pumpkin Spice Lattes every damn day prevails. It’s finally acceptable to drink fall flavored beverages without judgment. 

With the changing weather, comes the changing fashion. Fall, you make life so easy. What more could one honestly ask for from a season that requires an outfit of leggings, boots and a gigantic sweater and scarf combination. Being clothed in a giant wool blanket and tights has never been so fashion forward than it is in the fall.    

Fall, thank you for allowing us to do activities that are meant for children every year, such as hayrides and pumpkin picking. Nothing says fall like a great Instagram of the pumpkin patch. 

What could be better than the comeback of a season that brings with it all of the holidays that involve eating stuffing your face? Halloween gives us the chance to dress up for a week, and also is the time of year that produces the best candy. Pumpkin-shaped Reeses and candy corns galore. If you’re smart and can pull it off, trick-or-treating can still be a thing.  After this candy fest comes turkey day. Thanksgiving Eve is the biggest drinking night of the year. Reuniting at your hometown bar with all of your friends (or frenemies) from high school? Sounds horrible, but it is the biggest drinking night of the year so you must go! This is followed by the second best holiday of the year. What is more comforting of a holiday than Thanksiving? The answer is Christmas, but the great thing about that is that the return of fall means the return of CHRISTMAS is right around the corner. Thanksgiving rocks because you wake up early to the smell of food and you go to sleep dreaming of food. Thanks, Fall, for turkey and tryptophan. 

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, though. Thanks, Fall, for bringing us football tailgates (if you go to a school where that’s a thing). Even if it’s not a thing at your school (looking at you, nova nation) the return of football means the return of eating wings, drinking beer and screaming at the television (or pretending you care about sports). What could honestly be more wonderful? 

The return of the fall also means the return of all good television. After suffering through a summer of Bachelor in Paradise, The Bachelorette and Dating Naked, the fall arrives with the comebacks of Revenge, Scandal, The Big Bang Theory, Greys Anatomy and so much more. I hope you finished your binge-watching, readers, because it’s about to be a wild ride. 

Thanks,Fall, for being the season with the best weather, the best food, the best smelling items and for being so close to Christmas.