Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 (edited) Oh, warm clothes! Right out of the dryer! I'm saved! ETA: It's the little things... Edited October 28, 2017 by Critterfixer 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Now they both want to be witches. But Celery doesn't want to be a witch if Broccoli is a witch. And of course Celery thought of it first. Le sigh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I think I just need to drag them to a store and buy them costumes. I didn't want to do that though... they're an age now where they can help make their own costumes. DW says maybe we should bribe them with the $8/month minecraft server they want in order for them to just forget about Halloween. And then she said she'd be more likely to want to do Halloween with them if I were dead. Um, thanks? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Of course, there's the no-dying clause, so, that ain't happening. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 (edited) Would Broccoli consent to being a black cat? ETA: Halloween Horror Booyah! It's hard to do costumes, When both want the same, What both children wanted, They now think is lame. What's a parent to do, When the kids won't decide, Before Halloween's over, And the parent is fried? Edited October 28, 2017 by Critterfixer 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 (edited) Boo ETA: N/m. ETA2: I hate the 10 second rule. Edited October 28, 2017 by luuknam 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I'm feeling so, so, drained. Maybe I should go as a swamp. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Apparently I'm supposed to cook dinner tonight too. WHY??? I vote we bribe DW to forget about dinner by buying her an $8/month minecraft server. Except she doesn't want one. Life should not be this exhausting over nothing. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 You got a poem luuknam. :D 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Awesome song, Critter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I saw it before you mentioned it was a poem. I read it as a song. That works, right? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Sing to your favorite tune! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Sing to your favorite tune! It should be a country song, right? :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Here are the kids in their costumes, if I figured out how to do it. Gypsy, Indian, Ghost and/or Zombie, John Denver 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 It should be a country song, right? :lol: I'll get John Denver to come up with something. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Man, I have the worst headache this evening. I hope it leaves before bedtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 The cobbler looks good. Hopefully it tastes good bc it dripped incontinently all over my oven and now I’ll have to clean it. I can’t taste test since it’s wheat. I think they paased whatever it was to me. Plague! Plague! I hope it tastes good. Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Now I want cobbler. But I haven't quite perfected the GF cobbler yet, and I have something else for dessert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I went to the Afsa. I survived. We are severely over budget this month, so I bought only the barest essentials. I hate $. Youngest is having a week. Croup, dental woes, and now a shovel to the head. I can't even make this stuff up. I sent the older three to pull weeds. Youngest decided to dig a hole in the mulched bed. One of my middles grabbed a shovel, for some reason I cannot fathom, and put it over his shoulder. Somehow it made contact with Youngest's forehead, leaving a small puncture wound. ***sigh*** The cut does not need stitches, but she's going to have a big bruise and a bandaid on her forehead for the children's program at church tomorrow. Hugs for Baby Prairie!! I texted with Dawn. Her uncle passed away, but her Mom is doing okay. And she has had internet problems. She said she'll check in next week if the internet is working. She is glad to be remembered and missed! :grouphug: :001_wub:. Thank you, Lynn, for updating us. Hugs for Dawn, too!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I'll get John Denver to come up with something. I love him. I get a lump in my throat every time I hear "Annie's Song". Seriously!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 We're not doing pumpkins or Halloween. Tuesday we will go out to eat with friends. It has to double as dd's adoption anniversary dinner, though. I vote for a really nice dinner with something special for dessert. I'm hungry... Somebody tell my stupid chickens it's dark enough that they can go to the house? For some reason they'd rather stay out, fluffed up, rather than go into their nice, comfortable, clean (and warmer) chicken house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Youngest is having a week. Croup, dental woes, and now a shovel to the head. I can't even make this stuff up. I sent the older three to pull weeds. Youngest decided to dig a hole in the mulched bed. One of my middles grabbed a shovel, for some reason I cannot fathom, and put it over his shoulder. Somehow it made contact with Youngest's forehead, leaving a small puncture wound. ***sigh*** The cut does not need stitches, but she's going to have a big bruise and a bandaid on her forehead for the children's program at church tomorrow. Awwww. Poor thing! :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 They're not delicious any kind of way. Nasty marshmallow pieces! I agree. Gross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 We will carve a pumpkin tomorrow or Monday, and procure candy bars to enjoy with our movie on Halloween night, which we plan to enjoy in our living room, whilst enjoying a nice little fire in the fireplace, popcorn with butter and salt, and tall glasses of apple cider. That's how I do Halloween. ETA: And have for a while. See note about kids who won't eat anything but the good stuff, and dislike of doorbells. Sounds like our plan for this year. DS doesn’t care to go out. I’m okay with that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Here are the kids in their costumes, if I figured out how to do it. Gypsy, Indian, Ghost and/or Zombie, John Denver halloween2017.JPG 💖💖💖 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 SUSAN HAS FABULOUS CHILDREN! I went to the Afsa. I survived. We are severely over budget this month, so I bought only the barest essentials. I hate $.The ruthless green god. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I am freezing to death. I don't know why I'm so cold, other than I'm just cold. And my flannel shirt is in the dryer. :grouphug: Have some hot cocoa. Or some hot cider. :drool5: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 We will carve a pumpkin tomorrow or Monday, and procure candy bars to enjoy with our movie on Halloween night, which we plan to enjoy in our living room, whilst enjoying a nice little fire in the fireplace, popcorn with butter and salt, and tall glasses of apple cider. That's how I do Halloween. ETA: And have for a while. See note about kids who won't eat anything but the good stuff, and dislike of doorbells. This is a good Halloween celebration. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Or someone can go as a towel, and someone else as a ring, and I can throw the towel in the ring. Make a portable boxing ring big enough for the two of them to carry around with them inside. Dress them as towels with boxing gloves. Let the trick-or-treatees "guess" at what they are supposed to be; I'm sure some with come up with some very punny ideas! Hey, look, both contenders threw in the towel! No dear, that's a towel ring! So that's what the laundry gets up to in the dryer! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 SUSAN HAS FABULOUS CHILDREN! . Aw shucks. I guess they're keepers. :) And thanks to theatrical dd19's years and years of costume creating, they are pretty well trained in putting together their own costumes. Maybe with a little help digging through closets/drawers/boxes and braiding hair. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I am now a member of the ITT UTI club. Why is this a thing?? CVS Minute Clinic, y'all. It's closer than my doctor. Never mind maghmour, I'm making pasta with some eggplant bits in the sauce. Faster. We went out to a local seafood restaurant for our anniversary dinner. I had red snapper, and it was delish! I have leftovers for my breakfast in the morning. They also made a crawfish bread appetizer that we tried -- quite good, too! I am sure that was a remoulade sauce with the crawfish on top of the garlic bread. Now that I have tried red snapper I will have to try cooking it soon. I like to try eating fishes new to me first (at someplace where it is prepared well) so I know how it is supposed to turn out. This way if I don't like it a) I won't try to cook it, and b) if I do try to cook it I at least know it wasn't something I did, it was the fish. Lightly breaded and pan-fried red snapper.... :drool5: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Also please stop talking about the Halloween candy I'm not supposed to be eating. #hungry Sorry! I'll stop talking about food. As we were leaving to come home we saw a bride and groom arriving for their wedding reception. As we passed we congratulated them and told them they picked a great day for their wedding, and mentioned it was our wedding anniversary. They wished us happy anniversary, and we wished them happy wedding and many anniversaries to come. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I'm getting things done that have been on my tackle list for over a year. Go me. Go, Brookie, go! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 We beached, we Tillamook Cheese Factoried, and got ice cream on the way home because it was tooexpensive at the place. Awix is pleased as punch to be home and everyone else is exhaustedcrankyhungry. Pictures later, hopefully, but not of the plastic cows. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I took a nice break in the middle for lunch and some glorious reading of a Flavia de Luce mystery. So far so good. I'm writing course descriptions of ds' high school courses. He didn't need them for his current college program but he might need them in the future. Thank you for mentioning the book. I hadn't heard of those before. Googling the character led me to the author's website, and these sound like something my MIL (and me, if I ever get time to just read again) might enjoy. Christmas is coming.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Now he's pouting because I won't let him have my pens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Would Broccoli consent to being a black cat? ETA: Halloween Horror Booyah! It's hard to do costumes, When both want the same, What both children wanted, They now think is lame. What's a parent to do, When the kids won't decide, Before Halloween's over, And the parent is fried? Argh! :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Now he's happy again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I'm feeling so, so, drained. Maybe I should go as a swamp. That would be a former wetland. Swamps still have their water. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Here are the kids in their costumes, if I figured out how to do it. Gypsy, Indian, Ghost and/or Zombie, John Denver halloween2017.JPG :hurray: :hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Here are the kids in their costumes, if I figured out how to do it. Gypsy, Indian, Ghost and/or Zombie, John Denver halloween2017.JPG They look like they are posing for a record album cover! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Here are the kids in their costumes, if I figured out how to do it. Gypsy, Indian, Ghost and/or Zombie, John Denver halloween2017.JPG I am really envious of that porch, by the way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Man, I have the worst headache this evening. I hope it leaves before bedtime. :grouphug: Medicinal chocolate? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 The cobbler looks good. Hopefully it tastes good bc it dripped incontinently all over my oven and now I’ll have to clean it. I can’t taste test since it’s wheat. I think they paased whatever it was to me. Plague! Plague! :hurray: for the cobbler. :grouphug: for the oven cleaning and plague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I vote for a really nice dinner with something special for dessert. I'm hungry... Somebody tell my stupid chickens it's dark enough that they can go to the house? For some reason they'd rather stay out, fluffed up, rather than go into their nice, comfortable, clean (and warmer) chicken house. Goodnight, chickens Goodnight, chickens Goodnight, chickens! It's time to go to bed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Cobbler appears to be good enough to eat. I’ll take it. 😉 :hurray: :hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Now he's happy again. Can't keep HIM down! :laugh: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I need to clean my desk soon. The drifts are getting a little deep. :leaving: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Tomorrow we put the paddle boards up for the winter. It is unlikely we will get another weekend free to paddle until December or January, and by then the water will be much too cold. Ah well. But it's still flannel shirt weather tomorrow! And long jeans! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Dum dum, dumbidy dumbedoobedoo.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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