fall festival

The festivities are over for this year and a pleasant day was had by one and all. We worked the apple harvest toss game first thing so we got to the school before the fun officially started. I was pleasantly surprised to find plenty of parking on the school grounds so unlike previous years we did not have to park off campus and walk. Games are much more laid back and fun to work compared with the frenzied bake sale. As far as the bake sale goes I learned my lesson, last year I waited to buy bake goods till the end of the day so we would not have to carry our purchases-bad plan all of the good stuff is gone by 2pm! So this year after our booth duty & lunch we hit the bake sale and since our car was not miles away we safely stashed our goodies. We did typical festivally type things games, crafts, the 2nd graders all did little musical performances throughout the day-C's was at 1 and it was a nice little break in the day. And then at the gift basket auction we actually had the winning bid on a Transformers gift basket! I am still amazed about the gift basket I bid every year on something but never win or really expect to win, this year C was ogling the 2 transformer gift baskets so we bid on both. Neither had very many bids so as time was winding down I wanted to check to make sure we would not get stuck buying both baskets, we had been outbid on both so I tried to bid again on the one he really wanted but an eagle eyed mother was watching and out bid me in mere seconds so I bid on the second basket now another child was hoovering about and let his mom know they had been outbid but as she went to outbid us they yelled pens down so voila the basket was all ours. I felt a little twinge of guilt as the child burst into tears but losers weepers and all that jazz...
And I might add for the third year in a row D escaped attendance.

bake shop 101

tomorrow is C's fall festival at school-games, crafts, those inflatable jumpy things, face painting, cupcake walk and what seems to be a big money maker-the BAKE SALE. I worked the bake sale last year-scary business people take their baked goods very seriously. So I have been baking this evening, my mother's world famous brownie cupcakes, ok maybe they are only famous in my world but famous nonetheless. I also bake a signature spice cake made with tomato sauce-sounds odd but it is really good or it would have been but I was out of tomato sauce, well I was out of plain tomato sauce somehow I don't think the pepper & onion sauce would be a good substitute. I do have a second recipe that is made with tomato soup which I did have but somewhere along the line I have incorrectly transcribed the recipe. The cake does not look right and since I can't very well taste it then send it along to the bake sale I have whipped up the applesauce spice cake which is a cheater cake that uses packaged mix.
My house smells like a bakery.

halloween 2007

yet another halloween has come & gone C was death skull rider-essentially a knock off of ghost rider without the licensing fees. It was fun but he lacks that killer drive to walk for miles & miles and get lots of candy like we did when we were kids. But these days you generally get a handful of candy at each house so you don't need to visit a a million houses for a decent haul. And honestly I think he would have more fun in group maybe next year I will arrange to go trick or treating with one of his buddies.
I have happy memories of halloween when I was younger, it is my aunt's birthday and each year my best friend's family would come to dinner for a spaghetti, why we had that every year I do not recall but during dinner the 4 of us kids would race to the door to give out candy and after dinner our father's would take us out to make the rounds of the neighborhood while our moms & my aunt would hang out at the house.

I doubt my parents felt guilty..

well it never seemed like they did, if we couldn't do something or they didn't let us do something it just did not happen. They did not necessarily explain reasoning to us and near as I can tell there was no guilt involved. So why do I feel so guilty telling C he can not play basketball this fall? I feel horrible but with all we have going on it seems silly to sign up and miss a bunch of games & practices, these things cost money and if we aren't going I consider that a waste. He has surgery & convalescence time coming up, we are planning on a trip to CT for xmas, plus he still has CCD on wed nights , tae kwan do tues & thurs and I am thinking I will take a biology class next semester which is 3 hours class time & 4 hours lab per week. Basketball seems unreasonable at this juncture but I feel like crap telling him no.

or did he?

as C was getting in the bath last night I noticed a dime sized scab on his leg and in a MRSA craze I started asking him when he got it, how he got it, how long it had been on his leg etc of course he had no idea. So I planned on dragging out the hydrogen peroxide cleaning it, putting on anti-bacterial stuff band aids etc maybe even a doctor's visit? After his bath & before I started first aid D asked to see the scab and we as we looked noticed a little bit of dirt still stuck on his leg but no scab so much to my relief just a dirty little boy no MRSA. I need to stop watching CNN...

my son the television star

his teacher mentioned seeing him on the news last week. I am happy to report he came home MRSA-free

gay high holy day

why halloween of course! Designing Women? Will & Grace? I don't remember where I first heard that line but it cracks me up and reminds me of my roommates from about a million years ago. Yes they were gay and when we lived in CT they always threw an annual halloween party that was always so much fun black lights, spider webs, dry ice, a killer grain alcohol punch-they would go all out plus I love costumes!!! I have friends that I know went to a party Saturday night but the slackers have still not posted any photos hint hint...