All Hallow's Eve

Well, here we are in our Halloween best! You will notice that, yes, Mommy Mc is a witch (I guess the ex-boyfriends were right!), Tater is a devil (It still fits him to a tee and he actually likes to wear the silly costume!), and Booga is a ninja (Hey, he liked the swords!). Daddy Mc is not pictured because he procrastinated again this year and didn't get a costume. Even after Mommy Mc suggested several times that he should pick one up.

Daddy Mc took Booga around the neighborhood while I stayed and gave out a single candybar (yes, the full sized one) to the lone trick or treater. It is a sad Halloween night when we give out only one bar! We are used to not having many children come to the door and so we buy the big bars. However, having bought 60 big bars, having dressed up in my garb, and having decorated the house (complete with fog machine, strobe light, and sound effects) I am a bit disappointed. Instead of saying "BOO", this year I get to say, "BOO HOO".

A few Halloween pics...

These are pictures of the boys in their costumes and our spooky house Halloween night.

Our Pumpkins 2007

We bought 156 pounds of pumpkins this year, and so far only 5 of the pumpkins have been carved. Why so many you ask? BECAUSE IT'S FREAKIN' HALLOWEEN!!!!! We did buy some smaller ones for mere decorative purposes, and there are two that we bought as sacrificial lambs to the squirrel gods. You see, we have about 20 squirrels that frequent our front yard on a daily basis. No, I'm not exaggerating here...I've counted 20 in our yard on more than one occasion. I started out with one lamb, I mean pumpkin, in the yard. It took them a total of 15 minutes to attack the poor creature. We decided this year to take our pumpkin guts and place them in a bucket in the yard as to discourage them from attacking our works of art. I'm afraid for their safety even now. We will not send them into the fight until Halloween night, and hopefully we will have a few survivors until November 1st.

PS. Daddy Mc has yet to carve his own pumpkin! He has assured us that it will come before Halloween. We'll see...

Trunk or Treat

Last night was the school's trunk or treat event. For those not familiar with trunk or treat, everyone brings their car, their candy, their decorations, and their kids to wherever the event is being held. They decorate their trunks and the kids go trick or treating around to all of the trunks. SO, we take Booga and Tater in their costumes along with all of our candy (about 400 pieces) and drive down to the elementary school. Our school only serves K-4. While we are there we see a plethora of costumes ranging from the fairy princess to the undead zombie. What surprised me is the number of fourth grade girls in THE skimpiest outfits! Okay, maybe it was just a few, but COME ON!

This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons:

1. These girls are 9-10 years old and already wearing clothes that barely over what God gave 'em. Where do they go from THERE?!? Trying to act like Madonna is not a good thing. Man, really showed my age there! Okay, trying to act like....crap, I AM old. I can't even think of someone for this generation. Britney Spears, yeah, she'll work! No...wait, she's got kids. Ummmmm.....Paris Hilton? Okay, that works. Already trying to emulate Paris Hilton is not a good thing. Besides, she's STUPID.

2. It gets VERY cold where we live around Halloween. These girls were running around asking all of their friends for pieces of their costumes to help cover themselves up. Even that was not enough to help them keep warm. NOT A GOOD PLAN MOM AND DAD!!!

I did have more reasons and they were funny and witty. Also, the Trunk or Treat event was on the 26th, not on the 28th. Then, as I was writing, Tater decided that he needed to "help" Mommy. With one slap of the keyboard, half of the post was gone. In mere nano-seconds, the Auto Save stepped in to finish the job. There was no getting it back. The train of thought had left my brain and (as is usually the case) I could not remember exactly what I had written. No matter how hard I tried, it just wasn't the same. Did I mention that I LOVE my children? I LOVE my children. I LOVE my children. I LOVE my children.

Spooooky Halloween Costume.....

Okay, not so spooky, but cute. It totally matches his personality...really, he is a little devil sometimes. We have been searching high and low for a costume to fit Tater. Every place that we went they had the cutest costume but always a hair to small for him. So, we broke down and traveled to the costume shop. Again, we were beginning to have no luck. They were sold out of the ones that would fit him. After asking the lady to go back 5 times to search for each costume we had picked out, we finally hit pay dirt with this one.

He did it! He did it!

Last night at the Mc household, we had a break-through. Booga has FINALLY learned how to tie his own shoes! After weeks of trying (and trying to give up), he has finally succeeded. He is so excited in fact, that when asked if he would like to watch some cartoons as a reward for a job well done, his response was "no, I want to tie my shoes some more".

Today was the big test. Would he remember how to tie the shoes after a night's worth of sleep? YES!!!! As part of his "homework" he has been learning all of the personal information and how to tie his shoes. He has mastered the rest, and now he gets to go to school and show the teacher.

Of course, this brings (yet another) tear to Mommy Mc's eye. Just another in a long line of things that I don't get to do for him anymore. *sob* Oh, wait, that's a GOOD thing! YAY!!!! :)

One family's cold, is our family's Black Plague

As a few of you have told me, I've been slacking on blog duty. Yes, it is true. The Mc's have had the plague running through the house. The only one to escape it's grip has been me and the animals. I fear that I am not long for this cough-free, snot-free world.

This shall be my last will and testament...until I am well.


I leave all of my snot rags to the poor trashmen who come to my home every Monday.

I leave the germs that I am sure to pass along to any poor soul within a 5 mile radius. Alas, I have tried to spare you from receiving such a gift, but I must venture out into the world to get such things as cold medicine, kleenex, and (of course) food for my family. I have tried to kill these germs for your sake, but there is not enough Lysol, Clorox, and Purel in the world to keep this CRAP down.

I leave the cooking, cleaning, and kids to my husband for the duration of my illness. May he have better luck with them than I.


Thus concludes my Last Will and Testament of Illness. I pray that I never need use it. Yeah, right!

PS. There's more to come you VULTURES!!!! Just kidding! :)

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