Halloweening

This is basically how I feel about Halloween.

It's the spookiest time of the year and so much fun for the kids, but in my opinion it is a big PITA, if you know what I mean. Trying to make all those Hallmark moments out of this holiday is a joke! Pumpkin carving turns into an ER visit. Trying to choose a costume for mulitple kids at Party City turns into tears and tantrums for all of us. The costume itches, it's too hot to wear, too stiff to move in, or they want to wear half of it. It's one disaster after another. Quick, get a picture of baby in the sunflower costume before she rips the petals off her head and looks like a stuffed pepper!

Here's a great Halloween song though:

iTunes Store - Maura Matlak - Halloween - Single

Ryan Makes It Big (But Still Doesn't Know It Yet)!

Lesson of the Day: Sometimes things you say will come back to haunt you, especially if it ends up in writing!


Sometimes the fact that I make things up out of sheer desperation to get my kids to behave comes back at me. Things like, if you don't brush your teeth they'll fall out; if you don't wash your hair the bugs will want to live in there and, of course, there's the old seasonal trick, "Santa is WATCHING you: (beat your sister up)(tease your brother)(not listen) so you better stop." I try to stretch the use of this very effective threat from late August through January (Santa can come always come back and take toys away, after Christmas, you know).

One day I used this threat a bunch of times (in an hour), and later found a letter that my son, Ryan, wrote to Santa. AND......the letter ended up on the Chelsea Lately show! This show is hysterical due to the fabulous writing and producing of head-writer Tom Brunelle. Check the show out on E! weekdays at 11:00 PM. Thanks to Tom for airing the letter and bringing a laugh to our family's holidays 2008!

9/11 Remembrance

Lesson of the Day: One of the gifts that comes out of tragedy is that people come together.

I couldnt let this day go by without a simple rememberance of that powerful day that made us realize our vulnerability in the universe. The heavy sadness that filled our hearts, minds and souls. We reached out to others for comfort; experiencing the devastation in one common human way, together. I somehow felt close to everyone I met along my path days those days afterward; friends, acquantances and strangers alike, and took on the hurt of the families as if I lost a loved one as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n13CU-NvPMU