Mission Candy

The primary purpose for my ever having kids has arrived. Halloween candy. Handy Manny and Rapunzel have finally reached the age of usefulness. They have been given specific orders to hunt down as much candy as possible over the next few days, and return home for Dad to take first pickins. And, much like our government, the more they earn the greater the Dad Tax levied against them. Halloween just got sweeter.

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Halloween Bracelets

Made these in about 15 minutes before church.

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Kryptonite for the Lactose Intolerant

Yet I still can't help myself.

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As Expected

Here are all my main people in the obligatory October blog post Pumpkin Patch photos:

Quality Reading

Reading is kind of big deal around our house.  We do not have cable TV or video game systems, and we actually care about being intelligent (unlike the surprisingly large percentage of society).  We enjoy our regular trips to the book store, although we seldom buy their overpriced books. Typically, we go with library books or the local thrift store and Goodwill where the children books are 10 for $3.00.  However, during our recent travels through Barnes and Noble, Nathan has started gravitating away from the overly annoying Elmo/cheesy section toward some new style books.  What can I say, the boy has excellent taste in literature.

Five Guys Burger!

Good luck finding one better.

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Just Like Her Dad

Latest Publication

Well, there is still no word from the book agent concerning the future of the Cereal Box Books, but creation continues. I have been wanting to take Isabel to the movies, but given her natural aversions toward large crowds of strangers and loud noises, I figured a book about going to the theater might help break her in to the idea a little easier than the harsh five sense explosion of the modern movie experience.  And, who better to teach a lesson than Zoë and Izzy.

Just About Perfect

I am fairly certain that a fifty-seven degree morning filled with greasy crunchy bacon (not that weak turkey stuff but real bacon), homemade biscuits smothered in gravy and a couple of steamy aromatic mugs  of coffee is as good as it gets.  Especially, when both toddlers are being sweet and loving toward each other, the three month pregnant wife with pneumonia is feeling better and today is my Friday!  I think Autumn is a perfect excuse to celebrate anything.  I want to have a giant party.  I want to go buy a zillion pumpkins.  I want to hang paper bats from the ceiling with Isabel.  I want to just sit on the porch and visit.  I want to start making and buying Christmas presents.  I want to go running.  I want to drive a tractor pulling a trailer filled with laughing people sitting on quilt-covered hay bails.  I want to sit around a fire pit in the back yard with friends.  I want to smell a pot of chili cooking.  I want to go camping.  I want another cup of coffee.

Block Lamp

My son decided to wreck shop on our previous lamp in a manner worthy of a wrestling ring. Therefore, I took the guts from the old lamp and built a new one. I cut a bunch of squares out of an old 2x4, drilled a 1/4 inch hole in the center of each square, sanded all of them, stained each one, and glued them all together. I attached it to a base and ran the wires up through the drilled holes. After an unsuccessful search for a good lamp shade at the thrift store, we settled on the cheapest one from Target. Taadaa new mid century-ish lamp.

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