Still Alive!
First, thanks to Liz, Sandy and Carolyn for getting in several recipes for The Great LJ Cookbook. We need plenty more, so make sure you get your best recipes to me by Nov. 3!
We’ve been having a wild and wacky weekend around here. Magnus got totally drunk off Halloween candy last night, Kisha tried to murder me with a Glade flameless candle and I punched a baby in the face. Mike? He’s just Mike. Sitting back with an evil smirk, taking it all in, flinging out zingers when least expected.
The Yayers have a Wii. I think I need a Wii, except it is a VERY DANGEROUS toy. If you have your husband encouraging you to throw your bowling ball hard, it is quite likely you will throw your hand behind you with all your strength. If a baby happens to be standing there, you will punch her in the face, send her flying, and feel like a complete heel for the rest of your life. It was horrible. I was expecting her to have a big bruised face, but she ended up with a little red spot in her eye brow. She was crying really hard, of course, and I thought I was going to start in with her. She seems to have forgiven me and isn’t scared or anything, but it was still awful. Anyone else want me to come visit?
After deciding Wii was only to be used when all little children were asleep, we kept Evie up from her nap yesterday so she’d go to sleep earlier. That wasn’t the real reason, of course. The real reason is that she’s as anti-sleep as Erik and needed to have her clock reset after several nights of restlessness. I so do not miss the sleep issues. Erik is living proof that it does get better. Anyway, her napless state meant we could go out and have fun in the afternoon.
After lunch, we headed to a bourbon distillery and got a little drunk off the fumes before Erik decided we absolutely were not going to walk around with this big group of grown-ups when there were big spiders to play with. We scrapped that idea and went to an unexpected Halloween party at the animal park. Our poor children were the only ones without costumes, but they were probably also the only ones who weren’t freezing their tushies off.
When we got home, we sent the menfolk out with the kids while we tried to finish the Swiper costume. It is a very good thing I brought it because I am the very definition of uncrafty. It makes no sense, since I love to quilt, but I don’t have the manual dexterity or spacial imagination to make 3-D items. Kisha is much better and has corrected many of my unsightly errors. The result is really starting to look like Swiper! Erik is quite pleased.
This was supposed to be a picture post, but the pictures are still uploading so I’ll have to add them in later. Everyone is awake and happy, so it’s time for breakfast. I can’t decide if I have a cold or if I am still snotted up from Kisha’s attempt to kill me with a scented thingee that I was very allergic to.
More later.