Author: Cindy

Pumpkin Decorating

Once again, I sort of cheated and used our Mr. Potato Head Pumkin parts.  It makes decorating pumpkins fast, easy, and not very messy at all.  One year we will carve again.  Some day. The boys don’t seem to mind at all! Tommy’s Pig Man   Rusty’s Bat Pumpkin Billy’s Harry Potter pumpkin Ricky’s Franken-pumpkin […]

School Costume Parades

The preschool where I send the boys, always does a little costume parade for Halloween.  The parents line the street as the preschoolers come out, walk in front of 2 or 3 houses, cross the street, and come back.  It is short and sweet and adorable. Tommy was dead set on being a frog for […]

Making Haunted Houses

There always seems to be other things I’d rather do with the boys than decorate gingerbread houses at Christmas, but when I saw the orange, green, and purple frosting at the store, I thought they might like making Haunted Houses for Halloween.  I was right. I’ve got to admit, they surprised me at how serious […]

Witches

Before Halloween, I took the boys and my mom down to Gardner Village.  They decorate the shopping center with all sorts of witches. It seems I brought a few witches of my own along …   The boys may have been more interested in the small tadpole/fish in this pond than the witches, but I […]

This and That

I accidentally tried to kill our Maggie cat twice in one week.  The weather turned colder and she decided to start burrowing into blankets.  I then stepped on said blankets and was treated to a great big, “MEEEOOOOOOW!” We had a few dozen apples left on our tree that we wanted to harvest.  Once Kevin […]