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Potty mouth Mommy:
D's preschool has a from-the-car drop off area. Mom's don't have to get out of the car to drop their kids off at school, the teachers come to the car to get them. So we're waiting in the line on Tuesday and there is a car ahead of us who pulled up to the door area. D obviously thought that we were going to be next b/c the next thing he does is throw his hands into the air and proclaim "aw crap!" NICE!! I put my head in my hands and realized that I've got to clean up my potty mouth.

The Mommy look:
I took D to the park on Saturday and we started at park the backside of the elementary school, but then moved to the park which is a city park. There were older kids at the park who had their bikes and skateboards on the equipment. I generally tell these kids (cuz I run into a lot) that for the time that little kids are around I'd appreciate if they'd not have their "toys" on the playground equipment. I have yet to have a kid ignore my request. So, these kids stopped their "playing" and moved onto racing each other in foot races. GREAT!! It's fantastic to see 12-13yo's actually playing.
As we were playing, an older (mid-upper 20's) man starts walking to the playground and the kids seem to know him and go over to him. The man enters the playground area talking on a cell phone and proceeds to drop a few F-bombs. WELL, I shot this man a "Mom" look b/c in the very next instant he looked right at me and said "sorry, really Sorry." "It won't happen again". WHEW!! I got it! I've got a MOM look that will even bring adults to apologize for their behavior.

Pumpkin guts:
A few months back a friend of mine posted something on a web board about using a canning lid to scrape the guts from a pumpkin. Well, today I decided to test it out. FANTASTIC!! Holy moly! Why didn't I know about this years ago? The canning lid doesn't have a handle, so no getting that caught on the opposite side of the pumpkin or your own arm. The lid fits perfectly in your hand, has a sharp enough edge to get to the pumpkin core in just a few swipes and it doesn't bend!! If you haven't carved your pumpkin yet, try this and if you have, put it in your mind for next year.

Sniffle snuffle cough cough

I've figured out that I get sick around Halloween every year.....well, at least this year and last year. I was thinking back to Halloween last year and I missed the Halloween bunco b/c I was hacking and wheezing. Same this year. UGH!! I've been disinfecting this house like a mad woman, but it's not helping. My cold is just going from bad to worse. I still sound like Kathleen Turner - the deep breathy voice. GREAT!!

D is coughing and has a runny nose, but nothing like what I have going on. Pretty much the entire month of October has been either D sick, me sick or the both of us sick.

I'm ready for change and I'm not talking about the election either.

Pumpkins here, pumpkins there, pumpkins flying everywhere!

Yesterday we got up and ready to go to the local pumpkin patch. FUN FUN FUN!! Even for the $8 each price of admission (you get a pumpkin of any size with that admission), it was well worth the fun.

First, we had to get ready for the day. D put on his orange shirt and then we spiked his hair. Well, with the spikes, must come color. ORANGE!! It was awesome!

The pumpkin patch had all sorts of fun things to see and play on. A huge hay bale pyramid, a corn sandbox (a big giant pit of corn kernels), pony rides, hay ride, pumpkin patch, face painting, petting zoo, pumpkin launch. The camera battery died before we were done for the day. We got 2 HUGE pumpkins and walked away very happy people.

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YAHOOOOO!!

The cake is DONE!! And it's cute! I'm also adding pictures of the disaster cake that I made 2 weeks ago.



Ok, the monkey has no hands. I just couldn't figure out how to make them and have them look right.

I'm baking....again

Yes, I'm baking another cake. This one shouldn't be too difficult. It's a monkey cake. It should turn out to look like this, but I think/hope mine will be cuter.
Hopefully the cake disaster I had 2 weeks ago will not plague me this time. I've already baked the cakes, I'll make frosting tomorrow and start assembling. If my blogging suddenly ends...well, I've made a frosting rope and hung myself with it!! HA HA HA!

If it wasn't so funny it would be tragic.

Ok, I'm going to have a mini pity party.

This is my birthday weekend and it's completely gone to hell. First AF made her arrival yesterday with a vengence. Cramps and moodiness galore! FANTASTIC!! D is FINALLY on the mend from being sick, but he's very whiny. I have a cake to bake for someone that WAS to be delivered tonight.....WAS being the operative word.

I got the Monster Truck cake baked and put together, and I was making the frosting for the cake. THE FROSTING!! I was ALMOST done. D wanted to help, but knowing he was sick I was just letting him watch. I had just finished coloring the frosting the exact green color it needed and D sneezed into the bowl!! OMG!! There was nothing I could do. I had to dump the ENTIRE batch of frosting. I had used the last of the powdered sugar as well. SO I put on my shoes and headed to the store. Get out of the store with my sugar and more butter (just in case) and I see that my cell phone has a voicemail. It's M and NOT good news.

"Um, you may want to pick up more cake mix b/c the dog just ate your cake".

OH. MY. HELL. (thanks Casey for this phrasology)

Back into the store I trudge to grab more cake mixes dreading the fact that I'm going to be up VERY late and that I have to start over. The "new" cake is baked and cooling. The basic frosting is done to assemble the cake so once it's cooled, I can assemble. Once put together, I can then get to the nitty gritty of frosting this damned thing.

Doesn't look good for Birthday Breakfast out tomorrow morning nor does the family trip to the pumpkin patch.

Oh and the topper to EVERYTHING......I have a coldsore!!


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I woke up this morning to find all the truckbed sides to the truck cake had fallen off during the night..... HOLY HELL!!!!

What would you do?

I can't wait to see the responses I get to this blog cuz it's an interesting choice with no right or wrong answer.

Let's say you're given the opportunity to donate some money to a desperate family who would use it to feed their children, but were only able to do so if you donated the same amount of money to someone you knew would use it to buy crack. Would you do it?

I'll give you my answer later.