Tag: halloween
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"Happy Halloween" (or "The post that will bite me in the ass one year hence")
Man, this was a successful year of Trick or Treating for sure. I didn’t have to buy or make any costumes since everyone was happy with things we already had. No one had a meltdown at the end of the evening, and they all fell asleep less than 2 minutes after I tucked them in.…
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Halloween "all gone!"
The boys are eating the last of the Halloween candy for dessert tonight. For those keeping score, the final pieces were 2 packs of Skittles and a Mango Jolly Rancher lollipop.
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Why can't I be Supermother?
Last night I woke up in a sweaty panic. Robbie’s birthday party is on the 12th, and it hadn’t yet occurred to me to do anything about actually INVITING OTHER KIDS. I had visions of forgetting it completely, no one showing up to the party, and Robbie crying and crying. This is why I was…
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Fall is here! And I want to go home. And have a nap. And wake up in the Spring.
Saturday we had a day that I would describe as “nice but grueling” to the person (my mom) who very sweetly, thoughtfully, and generously got us the tickets for the Fall/Halloween event we attended. To everyone else I would describe the day as the clusterfuck that would not end. Everything started out great. Cookies and…
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Sugar high!
Check the feet… each kid was eating either a cookie or a brownie. Can you tell? [photo removed] And sweet Mike anticipating a fun train ride. Today ended up as a pretty nice day.