Runaway October

So it’s been roughly 6 months since I’ve posted here. That’s prob­a­bly the longest break I’ve taken. I’ve just been busy, I guess.

Here’s a cou­ple excuses rea­sons why:

• Went back to school at the last minute. (Not rec­om­mended. Sum­mer semes­ter with sci­ence and math is not rec­om­mended either.)
• Declan started Kindergarten.
• Hal­loween party planning.
• … Uhm, Pin­ter­est?

Wow, that’s not nearly the list of impres­sive rea­sons I kept pic­tur­ing in my mind. The good news is that I’m sure most of my fol­low­ers know me some­what in per­son and have been in touch on FaceBook.If you don’t know me per­son­ally… well, come say ‘Hi’. The worst thing that will hap­pen is I end up with some crazy stalker and they leave dead ani­mals on my porch. I already have a cat that does that, so you’ll have to try harder than that crazy, future, poten­tial stalker.

Declan did sur­pris­ingly well with his first day. He seems gen­uinely excited to go.

 Just a few days after start­ing school, he lost his first tooth!

I’ve been work­ing on a whole lot of Hal­loween stuff. Here’s a quick Save The Date I made for the party so far.

I only edited this to fit dif­fer­ent word­ing. When I find the orig­i­nal source again, I will give credit where credit is due.

And if I was any kind of GOOD blog­ger I’d promise pic­tures of my Hal­loween stuff and what­not. But we all know I’m not a very GOOD blog­ger so maybe, just maybe, I might post again soon.

PAY IT FORWARD

The first THREE peo­ple to leave a com­ment on this post will receive, at some point dur­ing the year, a hand­made gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total sur­prise. The catch is that you must par­tic­i­pate as well. Before you leave your com­ment here, write up a pay it for­ward post on your Blog to keep the fun going ( or you can cut and paste from this one like I did ) then come back and let me know you’re going to play. Then sit back and wait to receive your fun gift : ) Remem­ber that only the first THREE com­ments will receive a gift from me, so hurry, hurry, hurry !

Thanks Lisa!

So this last Mon­day was Mother’s Day and well… I didn’t do much of any­thing for any of the mother’s in my life. We’ve been so broke and I have no free time. We’re talk­ing not even a Hall­mark Card. My plan was to make plas­ter hand prints of the boys and hand them out. Then the sick­ness occurred. I’m just now get­ting around to it. I man­aged all of 1.5 hand prints before run­ning out of plas­ter when I was aim­ing for 5 total. Ugh. Some­days I feel like life wants me to go back to bed.

Matt and I had a small dis­agree­ment about his mother (because it was my fault I didn’t get her a card, I guess.). He said that he’s under the impres­sion that I didn’t want Ann com­ing over ofter because the house is never clean enough for com­pany. I was under the impres­sion that she’d rather stay at her house and enter­tain. Long story short Matt invited his parent’s over for din­ner this week­end. Now I have to get every­thing clean, look pre­sentable and make din­ner. I have no idea what to make.

Matt would like the nor­mal run-out of his favorite fat­ten­ing never-admit-you-make-it-for-your-family din­ners. I’d like to do some­thing spe­cial. Besides I picked up a cou­ple of cook­books from the library and have been itch­ing to test out some new recipes.

I noticed that cher­ries seem to be on sale cur­rently so I’m gonna head on down to the mar­ket and take a look. I’m think­ing about mak­ing a Cherry Clafoutis. Matt’s parent’s aren’t big dessert peo­ple but I never pass up the oppor­tu­nity to try some­thing new.

I don’t even know where I was going with this. Any ideas for din­ner? Maybe some barbecue?