OUR WEEKEND!
Friday – Pumpkins everywhere you look!
Including our VERY OWN, Lil’ Pumpkin!
(Thanks for the shirt, Annie – it is darling!)
Millie’s fine pre-school art work.
Jan had been out of town all week, Millie was sick and missed her school trip to pick a pumpkin from the patch. SO, I told her that she and I would get a few from our local floral shop and when Dad got home we’d carve ’em.
A mom who keeps her promise (sometimes) definitely kept it on Friday evening.
Meanwhile, the thing I was most looking forward to? OUR TREAT! I’d been craving doughnuts for days. WHY? I do not know. I just needed one. So, after getting our pumpkins from the local nursery, we stopped by our local Dunkin’ Donuts and got one for each of us.
They tasted marvelous and then once they hit our tums – ARHG! – you let enough time pass between doughnut ingestions and you forget just how hard they are on your system.
Moving on to…
Saturday
Here comes the Ghostie Family! Millie and Jan made our family in “ghostie” form.
Millie wanted her ghosts on the door so that she could be just like Jack and Drew (who also have ghosts hung on their front door)
And Clara did her bit by looking cute. (This may end up being her costume – Millie’s hand-me-down pajamas – cuz that is the kind of Halloween mom I am – aka LAME).
(Millie under the covers)
Monday
First fire in our fire place…
Looks terribly romantic, don’t it? WELL, it so happened that I didn’t open the flue. This meant lots of smoke, stress, and stink. But if you want to pretend like I never told you what really happened you can just imagine that it was
P E R F E C T I O N !
And the rest is our secret.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Geez louise, what jolly good fun! And my oh my what adorable kids! It just boggles my mind at how Clara gets cuter with every post! I just want to squeeze those cute little cheeks! Just can’t wait to see you all again!
October 15th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Liza, I think you might be craving those delicious homemade donuts that we used to get when we would go apple picking- remember? They were so fresh you’d watch them fry the dough and sprinkle the sugar on them. We’d get fresh cider and donuts when we would go get apples and pumpkins with our Connecticut buddies? Those donuts were SOOO good. I crave them along with a cup of cider when the air gets nippy.
Sadly, they don’t quite make them the same at Dunkins’.
Also, I concur with Chas, Clara is adorable!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
That makes me miss the following:
1. The Dawson Family & the fun times over the summer
2. Autumn in New York Jersey
3. Being a little kid
4. Carving pumpkins
Hey, I want to make some ghosties with Millie too!! 🙂