Pre-Halloween

1. Busy weeks

We started off this week, on Sunday, reviewing what we had going on each night.  It consisted of absolutely nothing.  We were both shocked and a bit happy that we had no plans this week.  Maybe our nights would consist of nothing besides tooling around the house.  Somehow, rather quickly, every single night filled up.  Monday night I took Eloise to ballet.  Tuesday night we had family dinner at my parents house.  Wednesday night the Gurchiek family came over for dinner.  Thursday night we had a halloween party at Catherine's house.  Friday night (tonight) we have Halloween and plan on going trick or treating and then to a party in TangleWood. 

 

2. Halloween Party

Last night we went to a last minute party at Catherine's.  The boys had a blast.  In the two pictures below the boys are making houses out of candy and frosting.  They didn't have much dinner but I think that is how tonight will turn out too.

3. Thank you notes
I made my kids write all of their own thank you notes for their birthday presents.  After school for two afternoons they sat and wrote out, "Thank you Love Owen" and then Cameron would sign his name.  That is all the note said and we sent them out yesterday. I am pretty proud that we got those done!!

4. Parenting Fail
Though I had my kids do thank you notes, I had a MAJOR parenting fail yesterday morning.  We seem to push it every morning with how much time we need to get ready.  I try to shower, get ready, make coffee, both our lunches, get the kids ready, do breakfast, and get out the door (with our broken garage door) in 45 minutes.  It just pushes it -- so then all four of us start to get a little testy.  The boys were going extra slow and my morning routine seemed extra long.  So needless to say, I made myself get out of bed and start my shower 15 minutes earlier so we could be stress free in the morning.  I even had time to empty the dishwaser.  The garage door on the other hand still held me up (but at least I was in a better mood to tolerate the day!)

5. Rouzer
My husband is going through something crazy at work right now.  He is constantly on my mind.  It will be interesting to see how these next few months play out for his career.  Grateful for his work ethic, his beast mode, and his dedication to his family.