We are having a Halloween party tonight instead of trick-or-treating. We are wearing masks, watching Pooh's Halloween movie, and eating 'apple nachos' (sliced apples with chocolate and caramel sauces drizzled over them. Yum!) And best of all Kim is here! Both kids are now sitting on top of her and throwing books at her to read to them. :)
Hope you eat lots of candy tonight!

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Ruff!

Kim better watch out, Lucy is ready to take her place. :D

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BOO!!!!!
Happy Halloween!! :D

We can go in the house now. We won't stay dry yet but we can get out of the wind. :)

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New Game or Bad Habit?

There a few readers of this blog who will greatly appreciate this post. Or you will at least laugh at us a lot. :)

So, Lucy loves to play store. It's her favorite game by far, and last year I bought her a pretty nice cash register that even scans stuff. She plays all kinds of stores: grocery, department, puppy, farm supply, etc. This summer we even had a few yard sales, which leads into the title of this post.

Lucy's store playing reflects my shopping habits and I'm beginning to worry/feel bad about myself for how much shopping I apparently do. Her newest store type is JoAnn's. We play shopping at JoAnn's almost every day. She gets out paper and her scissors and asks me which fabric I want to buy. Then I have to tell her how much I want and she cuts it for me. She just came to the desk to find a ruler so she could measure my half a yard order. At least we are learning a little about measuring right? Does that make up for the mass consumerism I am also teaching? I shop at yard sales a lot and I have been making lots, but yes we do shop- a lot I guess.

On that note we are off to JoAnn's today because they are having a big sale and I am buying holiday gift making supplies. :/

Freddy's first really bad goose egg. :( He and Lucy were playing very nicely together this morning but they crashed and he went flying into the wall. It looks awful but doesn't seem to be bothering him now, he cried really hard when it happened though.

This is a puppy Lucy drew. I love it!

The scrappy pumpkins. They are so cute and the kids love them! Well they loved the big one yesterday, I just finished the small one. Oh, that is not laundry you can see in the background that is part of my many piles/bins of fabric. :)

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My day

I typed this all into my update on Facebook but it was too long to post. I had no idea they cut you off after a certain number of characters. Anywho, the upside is I am actually typing a blog post and not just sending a picture from my phone. So add blogged to the end of my list. :)

"I've had a surprisingly productive day: I cleaned the mud room and pantry; put things away from the kitchen counter dumping spot; rinsed, washed, dried and folded the rest of the tie-dye; cleaned out the hall closet in order to find Lucy's lost game piece (found it!); organized a very full basket of ribbon; moved some more of my sewing stuff off the dining room table to my new sewing table in the back room; finished sewing and stuffing my scrappy pumpkin* (the kids helped stuff); did a bit of pottery while Lu played play-doh; washed some bins and the kitchen garbage can; read some stories to the kids and played catch with them; ordered a pizza for dinner; gave Freddy his antibiotics and nebulizer treatment 3 times; and now finally going to collapse on the couch and probably do some crocheting while watching TV with Dave."

To answer your question, yes I drink lots of coffee.

*Scrappy Pumpkin Tutorial Super cute and super simple. I think I have enough fabric left to make another smaller one tomorrow.

This our newly planted pasture. We planted lots of tall grass for Ponter to eat (yes after more than 2 years pony was finally given a name) and there are flowers planted all along the fence. Freddy even added some fluffy white clouds although I don't think you can see those in the picture. This was a very nice way to spend a cold, windy, wet afternoon.

Our newest farm-related purchase: the biggest non-commercial freezer you can buy.

Puppy love

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Why is he wearing his coat, where are we going? Nowwhere! He just likes to wear his coat. Silly boy!

I guess our overnight trip to Grandma and Bobbob's was a bit tiring. I've been sitting in the driveway for an hour now and they are still sleeping. I'm actually sitting in the silence reading a book it's been awhile since I got to do that.

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Big doings on Main Street! They are paving all the way through town. It now takes 30minutes to drive through our teeny tiny town. :( Entertaining for the kids though.