Just a few favorites from over the years…
I hope all of you ghosts & ghouls enjoy your day! Stay safe & don’t eat too much candy!
Psst…and don’t forget to ‘fall back’ tonight. Yes, that means we get an extra hour of sleep to recover from tonight’s sugar high {’cause you know it’s not just the kids who are gonna have one!}.
Well, I don’t hear a damn thing. Sort of.
A long time ago, someone said ‘silence is golden’ and I concur. Especially after how loud my late afternoon/early evening was. I did a lot of hollerin’ at my kids and I even threatened to cancel Halloween. Oh, the horror of it all.
It was just one of those days, people.
I want to bang my head against the wall all day while I’m at work…only to come home and feel the urge to bang my head against the wall even more. It’s not always like that, but holy cow I think the puberty hormones are starting to come a lil’ too early in this household {and there is only room for one Miss Crankypants in this house and that – it should come as no surprise – is moi}. But, after the “I have no problem sending you to bed hungry” speech, hiding the television remote & casting my vicious {some say it’s evil} stare…well…things turned out quite well.
And now…nothing…nothing at all.
It is vewwy, vewwy quiet {did you get my Elmer Fudd impersonation? ha!} in the house right now. *le sigh* Well, except for the fact that a certain puplet {*cough*Frisco*cough*} is whinging in his crate. He’s a-tossin’ & a-turnin’.
I suppose I need to take advantage of the peace & quiet. Especially considering that I am supposed to be baking these for tomorrow night’s din-din plans with her, her, her, her, her, her & her. And, if time allows, I really, really, REALLY want to paint my fingernails this and my toes this…just ’cause.
Aidan informed me yesterday during dinner that he sometimes wishes he had a thousand arms {don’t we all?}. He said that if he had a thousand arms then he could help with things like:
Blah, blah, blah…
I don’t know whether I should feel flattered {because he knows that I do so much} or insulted {because sometimes I just don’t do enough}.
The weekend was pretty eventful for Mr. Aidan.
He lost his first tooth {he’s 6}. It was one of his bottom front teeth & it was loose for what seemed like forever. On Saturday morning while playing at the kitchen table it just ‘popped out.’ At least that is what he told me. He wanted to put it under his bed straight away — I corrected him and told him that the tooth fairy looks under little children’s pillows and not their beds for teeth.
On Sunday morning, he woke up to find two crispy $1 bills under his head. He felt like the richest man in the world {oh, to be that young & carefree again!}. My parents happened to be in town {love them!} and the conversation he had with my mother – about the tooth fairy – went something like this:
A: “Yeah, the tooth fairy is pretty cool.”
My mom: “Why? What does the tooth fairy do?”
A: “She goes around collecting teeths. She brings you monies, too.”
My mom: “What did she bring you?”
A: “Two whole dollars. Yeah, she’s pretty cool.”
{I am embarrassed to report that Aidan has since lost one dollar – that’s what he gets for showing off to his friends – and we found the pup with the other dollar – fortunately, it was salvaged and still in one piece.}
Later in the day on Sunday, Aidan finally learned how to ride his bicycle without the training wheels. According to the hubs, the trick was putting Aidan on his sister, Malia’s, bicycle – which has a wider seat & different handlebars (she’s got a mini beach cruiser) – and he immediately got the hang of riding on just two wheels. Now, all he wants to do is ride is bike. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like {it’s cool & drizzly today}…he just wants to ride his bike!
What a weekend — he lost two {teeny} wheels & a tooth!
A picture of Aidan’s goofy grin will be added later on tonight. Promise.
