Leaves fall, temperature changes, and pumpkin spice lattes come back to the menu of Starbucks coffee indicate that fall is upon up and Halloween is right around the corner! Personally I love fall; it is the perfect season (in my opinion) for these five main reasons.

Reason 1: It is hoodie/sweatshirt/pants weather

As a plus size woman, I am obsessed with hoodies, pants, sweatshirts, sweaters and much much more for the sole reason of being able to hide my plus sizeness in baggy, comfy, and probably oversized clothing. Also with wearing yoga pants, joggers, sweatpants, and or a onesie are so easy to style. Just throw on your choice of comfy clothing, put on some eyeliner (of any color), put minimal effort in your hair, and your good to go!

Reason 2: The temperature starts to become bearable

Let's face it during the summer anytime you walk outside the sun tries to kill you with it's ray, the heat it gives off, and encourages nature to grow and change (humans, aka, me sometimes don't do well with change).

Reason 3: It becomes socially appropriate to drink warm/hot coffee drinks

Waking up in the early morning feeling the crisp cold air on my skin as I wake down to my kitchen and say hello to my Keurig and make my 8 o'clock coffee and gluten free bagel, toasted, and with butter on it. Once both are made, I walk back upstairs, sit down in my Lazy Boy, turn on Youtube, and enjoy breakfast with my favorite Let's Player on youtube. It's the little things in life that make me happy and a hot cup of coffee makes me happy.

Reason 4: Fires in the wood stove

The house I live in was built in the 1940's and to help heat the house their was a wood stove installed into the dining room. My mom uses this to help keep heating bills down, while keeping the house comfortable during the colder nights.

Reason 5: Reflecting on the current year

When fall comes around, it marks the year as (weather wise) half over. To almost accept/grieve the current year, I tend to focus on meditation and self reflection. I allow myself to knit pick and find out how I can make the next year better than the last.

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." - E.E. Cummings