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Happy Haunting

October 31, 2007

I don’t really like Christmas, yes it’s Merry but let’s face it, when you’re the Mommy/Santa’s Helper it gets a little overrated awfully fast. My very favorite holiday has got to be The Fabulous 4th of July. What’s better than swimming all day, picnics from KFC and watching fireworks all snuggled up on one big blanket at the park? Nothing. Plus it’s out of the house so I don’t have to clean it at the end of the day.

Coming in at a close second place has got to be Halloween. I heart Halloween. I like dressing up, putting fun outfits on the kids and making Fall treats and crafts and most importantly stealing all the Almond Joy, Butterfingers and PLAIN Hershey Bars out of the kids candy sacks. Let’s just be honest, raise your hand if you buy lame candy for the neighborhood and good candy for your own stash. (Don’t tell my husband I have a stash.)

The kids and I made scrumptious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies yesterday to take to friends. I happen to think I have one of the best recipes ever so you MUST give them a try. HERE IS THE RECIPE.
pumpkin chocochip goodness

We also got a little crazy an unwrapped 8 million carmels, smashed up some of my Butterfinger stash and dipped our own apples.
carmel butterfinger apples

The apples were sent off to school teachers in these darling homemade broom bags. (All thanks to Stacy who brought me one filled with candy corns and pumpkins)

Look how cute these are! (The photo just doesn’t do it the justice it deserves!)
candy broom

Here’s how you make them:

Take two brown lunch sacks. Open them and leave the first alone. This is the bag you put your treats in.
The second you cut down into 1″ strips all the way around the bag, being sure to leave the bag base in tact. Place the first bag on top and put a stick inside, leaving at least 9″ sticking up above the sack top. Gather up the strips and secure tightly with a piece of twine. Voila! A witches broom bag filled with candy. (Or carmel apples in our case.)

Hope you have Happy Haunting tonight!

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Laundry Lessons

March 24, 2007

With Rooster playing hooky from school this week I’ve exhausted all entertaining resources. I cannot play one more game of Strawberry Shortcake Dominos, create another sculped bust of Daddy out of pink, orange and green mixed play dough (although I do have a killer recipe for play dough), water paint an exact replica of the Black Beauty DVD cover (18 times), string plastic pony beads into anklets or pick up itty bitty scraps of paper off the floor from ‘cut and paste’ time….until Monday when we’ll do it all again.

Anyways, I was trying to find something to do and with all the fun we’d been having we really needed to get some chores done. In attempts to gather a little help, I taught Rooster (5) and Tootsie (3) how to do the laundry. We learned about sorting. We learned how to empty the dryer and reload the wet clothes, put in a dryer sheet, turn the knobby to the star and push to start.

We learned how to start the water, scoop and pour the soap INTO the washer without a generously sprinkling detergent all over the floor. We learned how to empty one of the sorting bins into the wash and gently close the lid so the boi-oi-oi-oi-oing of the crashing washer lid didn’t wake the babies. (yes, we did have one nap on Thursday for about 20 minutes-ugh) Then we’d use teamwork, (thank you Wonderpets!) and drag the basket inside the house.

With the babies waking so soon, I never got to folding the basket, but the girls would listen for the dryer to finish and run out and do another load, and another, and another, dumping the clean clothes in the middle of my living room so they could re-use baskets and at this very moment, here is what I still have left to fold:

The Laundry Pit

Yes, it IS the chaos that it looks like.
I think they did 8 loads, plus a two loads of towels, a load of all their sheets and blankets (Impetigo rules) and even a load with their doodle dolls. There is no more laundry left in the house and they are devistated! I keep hearing them talking about what they can do to get dirty to make enough clothes to put in the washer.

Why have I not utilized this FREE help before? Now if I could only get them to fold and hang…..

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