Getting ready for winter means winterizing your home, preparing for holiday guests, and conducting an annual insurance review with your agent at Express Insurance to make sure there is adequate insurance, especially if there have been any life changes during the past year.

There are plenty of maintenance chores to do in fall to get ready before the winter weather comes.

Besides having things you must do on the home checklist for fall, be sure to include some of these fun things:

• Decorate pumpkins and toast the pumpkin seeds
• Go for a hay ride
• Snuggle by the fire
• Bake an apple pie
• Visit a farmer’s market
• Enjoy a scenic drive
• Jump into a pile of leaves
• Visit a haunted house
• Go fruit picking
• Bake cookies
• Make pumpkin bread
• Enjoy hot spiced apple cider and eggnog
• Fly a kite
• Go on a scavenger hunt
• Make caramel apples
• Have a tailgate party at a football game
• Make popcorn balls
• Knit a scarf
• Use scented candles
• Go to a spooky graveyard
• Bundle up and go for an early morning walk
• Make hot chocolate
• Enjoy a weekend getaway at a bread and breakfast
• Take a holiday family photo
• Adopt a new pet from an animal rescue facility
• Decorate your porch and front yard with holiday decorations
• Make s’mores and Rice Krispies treats with the kids
• Enjoy movie night with homemade popcorn and caramel corn
• Toast marshmallows over a fire pit
• Make blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup
• Enjoy the season premiers on television
• Go for a walk in the rain and splash in the puddles
• Make mulled wine
• Build a tent fort for the kids in the living room out of blankets
• Have a pillow fight
• Enjoy a costume party
• Go caroling house to house

Be kind, enjoy life, and be thankful.