I love making scraves for the family in the Fall. The kids always request their favorite colors. It makes me happy :) My latest creations.


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Leave God's Pens Alone Mommy!

In the church foyer there are ink pens available for taking notes, writing your offering check, doodling kids, etc. Somehow every so often one of these pens makes it home with me :) 


The other day, I pulled out of my purse one of these "CHURCH" pens to address a letter I was about to mail. Mistake! My 4 year old son says to me, "MOMMY why do you ALWAYS bring God's pens home from church with you!? (his tone was scolding and filled with disappointment in me) He goes on to ask me in a very serious tone..."Could you please stop taking God's pen home in your purse?" I was dumbfounded, he had a point. LOL!!!

One of God's Pens from church. 

These pens are everywhere..the kitchen drawer, my purses, the car, blah, blah :)

Fall Weekend

What a lovely fall weekend! Jogging on the nature trail with our kiddies on Saturday.

Story Book Character Day

The Pre-School our children attend uses the last week in October as "Spirit Week". Sprit Week is a religious friendly and policitically correct week of enjoying the "Fall Harvest". Due to Halloweens origin may parents, like us choose to welcome the Fall Harvest. 

Spirit Week includes a different theme for each day in that week starting with sports day (the children dress in sports gear), Pajama day, etc. Spirit weekends with the main event on Friday being “Story Book Character Day”. The children dress in their favorite Story book Character and bring along the storybook in to be read by the teacher/parents. There is also a big Harvest Party that day filled with all types of fall treats.

Last year, our daughter Lake, then 2 when as her love "Cinderella" and our son Hunter, then 3 when as his love "Spiderman". With story books in hand, it was a success.

With Spirit week at the end of this month, I thought we should start to think about what characters we should be this year. Well, my Daughter Lake, now 3yrs old, was thrilled about being a "Queen Bee". My mom had already brought an adorable custom made Bee custom. It is adorable! Good ole GlamMa! Baby Girl done! We also have decided to write our own storybook this year, starting none other than Queen Bee Lake.

Now on to my son Hunter, who is now 4 yrs old. We have gone back and forward with what/whom he wants to be. First, he was dead set on being Spiderman again. Fine with me, we still have the customer and it fits perfectly. Money saved! Cha-ching!!

A few days past, and now he is into being Bumblebee from the Transformers. Ok, good. I know of at least three stores in a 5 miles radius that has that customer. I was on my way to purchase it, and decided to wait to take Hunter with me to make sure that he REALLY wanted to be Bumblebee and not one of the other Transformers. Besides, it is also a good idea to check the size with him present. 

Yep, you guessed it. We are getting ready to make the trip to the store and Hunter says to me, I don't want to be a Transformer anymore! And in his hands he has a wrinkled up advertisement that came in the mail weeks ago. This advertisement is from Party City. This paper is filled with costumes! I'm thinking great, here we go again. It's at least 20 or more costumes in this sales paper.

Hunter says to me: "Mommy, I promise...I really know what storybook character I want to be. I am not changing anymore."
I say ok big boy, show mommy who you are going to be. With his big bright eyes and excitement in his voice, he says to me: "I want to be the man that brings your cell phones in the big brown truck!"

I'm speechless as I look down at the paper and he has circled a costume for the UPS Guy!!! 

Now, this is funny in my house because I go though cell phones, let’s just say often. Really, it's like I always get all the defective cell phones ever made! I got a new one only 2 weeks ago. Anyway! 

Here's the kicker. Hunter says to me: "oh yeah, mommy I am going to need one of your old cell phones and a box!!!!"


Now, tell me when you have ever seen the UPS Guy in any storybook or fairy tale!!! I guess, there will be one now =)

 

Hey Little Dude, Is there a cell phone for me in that box??!!!!

Happy Fall Ya'll

I love Fall! Not because my birthday is in the first week of Autumn :) I love Fall because of change it brings. Out with the heat and in with the chill. Here are a few of my Fall Favorites.

I hope that you will share yours too :)

MY FALL FAVORITES

1.      Fall Foliage ( also known as the changing of the leaves to yellows, reds and browns)

2.    The Chill in the air (YAY! Sweater weather)

3.    Taking the tots to the park for bikes rides, while walking hand in hand with my hubby

4.    The smells of cinnamon, oranges & cloves

5.     Pumpkins (Pie, Bread, Seeds, Candles, Latte, you get the picture)

6.    Decorating the Yard- Our family theme "Harvest Time” 

7.     Raking Leaves and tots jumping in

8.    Snuggling in soft blankets while watching movies

9.    Cozy socks & Flannel PJs

10.  Pie & Cookies in the oven

11.   The Fireplace

12. Recipes with brown sugar

13. Shorter Days and Longer Nights

14. Chilli & Vegetable Soup

15.  Wind blowing through leaves

16. Cuddling and Drinking Apple Cider

17.  Crocheting Scarves

18. A good book on a chilly night

19. Trips to the Corn Maze, Pumpkin Patch,  and Smoky Mountains

20. Family