Monday, October 29, 2007
Since I got back from Colorado I've really been trying to get back into the groove of things except I'm not doing a very good job. The house is a mess and the kids are dirty and everything seems scattered and dissheveled. I think it might have something to do with one or all of the following:
Too much Halloween Hullabaloo--we only had three parties this past weekend, one costume to sew, several to mend and a potluck to organize. Not to mention I was in charge of scouts this past week and decided to help the boys pass off one of their religious square knots for Faith in God, and that meant one day spent organizing for Wednesday afternoon and a good part of Saturday making a ton of cupcakes for the cakewalk which the Wolves were in charge of running at the potluck. Both went really well--the Potluck and the Cakewalk. We had eighteen pots of chili and over a hundred people in attendance. We didn't have enough tables to seat everyone that came which is really great. . . for us that is, not for the poor members who were left standing while they ate. The poor missionaries were the judges and had to taste all eighteen chilies and pick the hottest, the most original, the one with the best appearance, the most flavorful and the best overall. They did a great job, those Elders. We also had a People's Choice category and everyone had a chance to vote for their favorite. My chili (which was really Chris's white chili) was good and I actually got a couple of votes but didn't win. There were so many really good chilies, I'm thinking now we need a Ward Chili Recipe book. I made some Jello-beans with blueberries in them for our sidedish that totally looked like eyeballs but tasted really good--if you're looking for a scary halloween snack minus a lot of work you should try it. Of course for that you need a jello bean mold and it's probably too late to get one by Halloween. I used some of the eyeballs on the cupcakes to make monsters but it was really humid that day and they kept sliding off. Next time I'll use cool whip to frost the cupcakes and I think that might work better. I also made ghost cupcakes with nutter butters frosted with white frosting but that was a lot of work. Next time I'll dip them in white chocolate and use mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth--much easier I think. But they still turned out cute. I didn't manage to snap any pictures since I was running around like a lunatic trying to keep the party running smoothly, but Sam Cousins snapped a bunch (like the ones below which I totally stole off her website) so you can visit her blog and check them out.
 
You already know about my leaf addiction which is definitely making it hard to focus on more important things like is there any clean underwear in the house and what are we eating for dinner? I mean, hello! I've got dead leaves to preserve here. And let's not even start with the leaves we're not preserving that are overtaking the entire back and front yards.
Then of course I only have like half a million sick kids here and just trying to remember who's who and what drug's belong to which who is kind of frying my brain. I took the twins in for their Well Child visits and Doctor informed me that both babies are wheezing and both have ear infections and I need to give them two puffs of this inhaler once a day and two puffs of that inhaler three times a day and a teaspoon of this medicine twice a day and this creme applied three times a day. And Caleb and Denver need this cough medicine once a day. And Denver has four cavities that need filling and I have one and the twins have to go back to Doctor in two weeks for their immunizations that they couldn't get today and could we please all be healthy just for one second. . . please!
And then there's Mark leaving for Mexico again and that makes three weeks in the past five that he's been gone only guess what? I don't have a family member coming to stay with me everytime he leaves. And while we manage just fine when he leaves it's still not fun, especially trying to get six kids costumed and trick-or-treating all by yourself--that should be all sorts of fun. Luckily Chris has invited us over for Halloween but still. . . .
Parent/Teacher conferences X 3, Halloween parties and parades, visiting teaching (only three more days left in the month), the twins turning one, mystery reader for Hunter's class, pumpkins to carve and on and on. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever get back into the groove of things but I have a feeling with the holidays just around the bend I'd better quit blogging and do something productive like tape garbage bags on the kitchen table and carve some pumpkins and cook us some dinner and fold some laundry and wash the dishes. . . .
posted by Shana # 3:21 PM 
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