What We've Been Up To....

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you can see why Rachel and I have been otherwise engaged for the past week. We were too busy actually talking to each other — and cooking in real time together! — to post. I would apologize but you've now seen Miss M and obviously will totally understand why we haven't written.

We also did a little Halloween project that takes about 3 minutes and will make your table/hallway/whatever instantly festive (or in our case Miss M's room for cute nightlights).


ingredients
clean jars of various sizes
white tissue paper
black tissue paper
LED tea lights or regular tea lights
Modge Podge
small foam paint brushes

method
Rip pieces of white tissue paper and Modge Podge it onto the outside of the lights with your brush. Cut out faces in black tissue paper and Modge Podge onto the white tissue paper. Stick the candles inside. Light. Voila! Instant Halloween!

Stay tuned for tomorrow...some exciting news to share.....

Who Ate All the Halloween Candy?

Hey Ma-

So, last weekend I had to go to Target to get a few household essentials. When I was there I somehow found myself standing in the Halloween candy aisle.

"Well, there are a few neighborhood kids who stop by the house sometimes..." I found myself thinking.

The next thing I found myself thinking was, "Well, just in case they don't stop by I should probably buy a kind I like..."

From there, I got to "And I should probably buy a variety bag so the neighborhood kids...if they DO stop by...find something they like."

And this is how I found myself alone in the car (ok, M was there, but she doesn't give me grief yet) with a 20 minute drive home ahead of me and a giant bag of candy parked in the passenger's seat.

I made it home with candy left, I really did. Somehow, though, once John and G joined my candy consumption team the rate of disappearance really...um...took off.

By Wednesday this is what we had to show for ourselves:



There really are neighborhood kids so I really do think we need to have some candy come Halloween night, but right now I'm thinking that I'll have to buy it just before sunset that evening.

Did I mention that we're trying to figure out a way to dress M up and take her trick-or-treating? You know, so she TOO can be a vehicle for bringing candy into our house?

Yeah, I might have a problem.

xxoo
R