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This is Halloween

 

The Pumpkin King and we are having a good time Halloweening around here. I hope all y'all are,too!

Friday (an orange day)

The Reader

She said she will read one book a day for three weeks: a sweetly arbitrary goal. She decided her reward will be a trip to the children's museum. Regular and simple, I don't know why.

Suddenly she's there, up in a tree, all by herself with these long, long pages. She only needs me maybe once per book. "Salesclerk". "Reunion".

It is October and she is six. She is a reader. She reads, she reads, she reads, she is sailing away on the pages of books.

Where did the time go?

Wednesday

Monday

The Little Chihooty

I'll keep this brief:

My six year-old has some kind of thing for art glass in general and Dale Chihuly in particular.

My aunt and uncle have a Dale Chihuly chandelier in one of their homes.

My aunt was tickled that my daughter likes Dale Chihuly as much as she does.

She was also tickled that my two year-old calls Dale Chihuly "Chihooty".

The chandelier came with spare parts.

That is how we ended up with an acorn squash-sized Chihooty hanging in our living room.

The child is pleased.

Potter Party

We had a Harry potter themed party, sort of...construction paper bunting in Hogwarts house colors was about as far as I got. But I like them so much I think they'll stay awhile (Mr. T made a big gnarly three dimensional fake spider web over the top of the Slytherin wall and plopped the paper spiders in it, it's a great simple Halloween decoration). If you ever decide to make a paper bunting like this, you can save all the little circles left over from hole punching to use as confetti. Whooo, Martha Stewart in the house!

And Sara, let me know if you want your clock back. Ahem.

In

We moved. There was a move. Things were moved. My whole house looks like this right now, except the garage and the third bedroom, which look worse. But we're nearly one week in, and completely out of boxes in the living/dining room, kitchen, girls' bedroom and our bedroom, leaving the third bedroom (which we will use as a general workroom/office) and the garage to be unpacked and sorted. I have a birthday party here in two days, which lit a nice little fire under me to get things decently sorted in a hurry. 

I'm painting (enjoy my half-painted living room while you're here, friends!) and raking leaves and moving things about and wondering if the non-functional phone jack in the one room can be made to work and fretting over what to do with that one really dark corner and that one really big uninterrupted wall.

It feels very, very good.