November 16 - New Appliances are FAB

 

After 18 years, our GE washer and dryer (the first "big purchase" JD and I ever made as a couple) finally went caput. The dryer started making an extremely loud metal on metal sound and the "on" button only worked half the time while the washer stopped draining. I headed to Home Depot and bought closest thing I could find an old school washer (top load with an agitator) and dryer. Ladies and gentleman, I am pleased to announce our new Maytag appliances! There were limited options for a top loader with an agitator and I went with the one that could be delivered the fastest. I am thrilled with them-the washer is almost twice the size as our old one. So exciting!! 

November 9 - One Step Closer to Normal

 First shots down. No tears & zero side effects (shots were yesterday)!

November 8 - I was a Dinosaur!

PSA: Wearing your sister's goddess headband to school is good. Wearing your sister's goddess headband and then rolling around on the ground playing 'dinosaur' is bad. Very, very bad. "But mom, I was a dinosaur! I had to roll out!" And this everyone, is what I found when I picked her up one day last week:

I spent 1.5 hours working on it before JD came home. He spent an hour breaking the headband into tiny pieces to get it out of her hair. I spent another hour after that working on the mother of all knots. A stroke of luck-Jillian does not have a sensitive scalp. If Julia had done this, I would have had to cut it off her head. Jillian amazingly sat there quietly for 3.5 hours (with a 20min break to eat dinner). At the end of the day, we didn't have to cut out any hair so it was a success. Jillian now says "Don't worry Mom, I will def be sure to take my headband out next time I'm a dinosaur!"

November 3 - Halloween Wrap-Up

We had a busy Halloween weekend, let's dig in!

Friday

Jillian had a Halloween party at school and decided to wear her unicorn dress because "I want to be a unicorn, not a ladybug." At pickup, she got to go trick-or-treating at school on the "Haunted Walk"  with two of her Kinderstar friends, Amelia and Grace. The girls loved it! After getting all that candy, we headed to Julia's school for-you guessed it-MORE candy. Her school was hosting a trunk-or-treat and we weren't sure what to expect. This was our first one and it was packed-we had to do several loops around the parking lot before we could find an open spot to park. Julia was working the event for NJHS so Jillian and I went to all the different cars and she quickly filled up her Halloween bucket. There were some great themed set-ups, Jillian's favorite was FFA with the live farm animals the kids could hug. 

Saturday

We hosted a Girl Scout Halloween party on Saturday evening. Fun fact-when planning a Halloween party, go shopping early because if you wait until October 30, the stores have zero Halloween decorations. It was even difficult to find candy (after 4 stores I finally found some). Luckily Tammy came through and helped me with orange lights and skeleton decorations. We had 8 girls plus Jillian and they had a great time. We set up tents on the driveway and did the whole party outside. The weather was beautiful!

Sunday

The kids carved pumpkins in the afternoon and Jillian declared "This is disgusting, I never want to do this again." She amended that by saying "Next year I'm wearing gloves, I don't want the icky stuff on me." Julia headed off to her friend Hannah's house to go trick or treating with Hannah (Girl Scout), Danielle (swim friend) and Allison (elementary school friend). JD took Luke and Jillian trick-or-treating around our neighborhood while I manned the door with the dogs. We had a lot of kids come by-so many that I ran out of Halloween candy and ended up giving out Christmas Hershey kisses that I picked up at Target the day before. 

It was a busy but fun weekend!

 

Trunk or Treat

Girl Scout Party

Happy Halloween