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Via Chasing Cheerios’ Link List I ended up at Unplug Your Kids which took me to Candy Experiments. What a great way to use up some Halloween Candy. The kids were miraculously focused more on the experiment than eating the candy. Wish I could say the same for their mother!

I think we’ll try Floating M’s next.

 

the birds

Crazy, surreal, apocalyptic swarm of black birds descended upon our backyard this afternoon. One minute there wasn’t a sign of them, and the next minute our leaf-covered yard was bird-covered. There must have been 200 of them. And by the time I got the camera 2 awe-filled minutes later, they were headed in droves to the trees, from which they then headed in sets of 20 to the skies. Total Hitchcock stuff. Come to think of it…last night there was a full moon.

the technician and the hippie

The kids have been mildly sick the last few days – a persistent cough here, a quick fever there – which really illuminates Josh and my personality differences. He considers medications, knows the actual non-brand-name names of all medications, and, unlike his bride here, doesn’t refer to anything in pill form as “Tylenol”. He fastidiously sets up cool mist humidifiers and doses stuff in the middle of the night.

Then you have me. I tend to offer tea with honey. Sleeping on 2 pillows. And cuddling. And everyone once in a while I actually pull out the medicine bin and squirt some saline up some tiny noses.

While commenting on our different approaches to Josh, he said “I’m a technician” and it makes perfect sense. He’s a genius trouble shooter with a vast amount of knowledge of technology gibberish and medical gibberish. I, on the other hand, am smart enough to defer all technology and medicine-related tasks to Josh. Plus I promise to always have cute tissue boxes at the ready.

introducing…

… the SpookyJerseyBabies.

grad school graduation gown

+ black maternity work / funeral dress I haven’t yet consigned or donated

+ a 6 year old daughter with a passion for applying make up

+ a bodacious hat from the costume aisle

= Witchy Momma

 

the japanese girl

A quick picture of Haven’s costume this year which I obviously forgot to iron. This was her first year in actual face makeup and she loved it (no shocker).

spidey on parade

Hadden’s preschool held an adorable parade and sing-a-long yesterday, with plenty of super heroes, princesses, animals and witches crunching along the leaf-filled path.

filmy ghosts

Remember those filmy ghosts we made at our Daisy Scout meeting earlier this week, inspired by Martha Stewart’s? Here’s the final product. Spoooooky!

care package

Our godKate is at her freshman year of college, and by the looks of posts on facebook, is surviving on ramen noodles and the occasional Fluff sandwiches. I’m 99% sure she also eats 3 meals a day on campus, but really that doesn’t count.

Inspired by her Emmy worthy performance of the typical freshman, I set to send her a care package of slightly more wholesome but still very college-appropriate, cramming-for-finals, starving-after-a-late-night-out food. And a box of funky tissues. And a gift card to Dunkin’ Donuts. Because like me, godKate runs on Dunkin’.

jack O. lantern

Should I be concerned that tomorrow is Picture Day? Because I am.

Notes to kids:

This was the first year that you, Haven, carved an entire pumpkin by yourself. Alright, I might have refined a few edges and done the eyebrows, but really, you drew the design on, you carved out the eyes, nose and mouth, and you still have 10 intact fingers to show for it.

Hadden, you’re using Halloween to teach passers-by the important difference between Pumpkins and Jack-o-lanterns. These are Jack-0-lanterns, and never again will they Pumpkins be. Awesome job scooping out the “icky stuff” too!