When Life Hands You...Pumpkins!

Who knew how wonderful foiled plans could be?

The kids and I had a day of haircuts and shopping planned on Saturday, but when day care fell through, I heeded the call of Red Barn Farm in Missouri:

Alpha+Mom shares how to make salt-dough pumpkins...

Hostess with the Mostess offers a tutorial on how to make paper pumpkin ornaments (these are some of my favorite!)...

...and Martha recycles and paints jars to make jack-o-lantern er, jar-o-lanterns...

Visit KinderKorner's Pumpkin Patch for more classroom pumpkin fun!

Halloween at Our House

We have a toddler after an eleven year hiatus, which means I get to be "Mommy" for a bit longer instead of just "Ma" or "Mom" or the dreaded "Yes, *sigh*, THAT'S my mother..." A few more Octobers of contemplating whether or not to make trick-or-treating costumes by hand, or to give in to the aisles and aisles of alter-ego personalities available at Walmart (I've discovered Old Navy's costumes are cute, cute, cute!). More years of watching Halloween-themed videos (now dvd's), reading Halloween books to someone other than my students, and using pumpkins for more than just decor.

Our toddler's favorites this month? Pumpkin Pie and
of course! Decorating with many of Shannon's handcrafted holiday items has given the boy more than one pumpkin vignette to enjoy as well:



I think we have MORE than Five Little Pumpkins!