decent haul

considering halloween is on a Friday night this year. Come on folks we live in the south Friday night means high school football games, and there were lots of dark house along our normal route let me tell 'ya! But a good time was had by one and all, we hooked up with one of his buddies and walked with them for a bit & C got more than enough good stuff that mommy can pilfer he can enjoy!
btw helpful hint kids always say thank you it scored C an extra piece of candy at one house!

All Hallows Eve

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Happy Anniversary to my brother & his wife and here's to another 15!

Dewey defeats Truman

the latest scuttlebutt 'round the interweb is the fear that this election might turn out like the one in 1948. Had Dewey won our family history might have taken a distinctive turn. My great-grandmother was an early feminist, suffragette and all around incredible woman, widowed at a young age raising her daughter with her 2 sisters they ran the store as well as the newspaper in the little Missouri town of Martinsburg. Gran was very involved in politics and a frequent delegate for the Republican Party, nominating Dewey, Eisenhower & Nixon. Family lore has always been that if Dewey had been elected my grandfather would have become Surgeon General. What an interesting twist that would have been.

Jimmy Hoffa might be in there

really need to clean out the freezer this weekend. I am guessing we probably have enough meat I could do without shopping for a week or two at the very least, we have copious amounts of popsicles leftover from last year's tonsillectomy and several tubs of cookie dough from last year's buy cookie dough for the school or you are a bad parent sale. In an ideal world I would really like to inventory what we have and have it written down someplace so I can check my list before grocery shopping. hmmm that would work really nifty for my pantry stuff too. Can you imagine how much easier life would be if I would just try to be a little organized? and we might not have 20 cans of cream of mushroom soup on hand either.

and this is why I hate fall break

or at least a full week of fall break...
-first day back 3 assignments he has not finished in class today, he only brought one home tonight to work on not all of them although he swears he did start the others, he just didn't want to have tons of homework
-he at least admitted it was because he was talking to his friends that he did not finish his work
-one was cut & paste a bat together or something equally challenging why you can't do that & talk is beyond me
-forgot his glasses at daycare so he won't have them in school tomorrow
We had him back on track before break them wham bam a week of vacation and he thinks he can goof off again at school. Luckily we are doing the agenda so we can rectify the problem straight away
My learning curve seems to have kicked in(or so I hope) instead of yelling & threatening I think my calm & rational I am very disappointed tone hit more of a nerve with him (again so I hope)

happy monday!

fall break is over & back to reality thank you very much. C did not want to go to bed last night I know he was still up when I went to bed around 10, no idea when he finally went to sleep. I briefly toyed with the idea of letting him sleep in & then driving him to school but hell no if you stay up that late suffer little boy. I have avoided the drive into the Intermediate school thus far-3 schools feed into essentially 1 entrance so I vowed early he would be taking the bus every day for the next several years. Somehow he managed to get ready in time and we headed down to the bus stop. Idle chit chat with some of the other parents, just waiting for the bus, and waiting, and waiting. Once the bus was 15 minutes late we headed back to the house for the car & I drove C in, so we totally could have slept in a little longer..who knew? The drop off was no big deal the other 2 schools do start at different times and it was still very early so the car lines were not crazy yet. Although I will say it doesn't seem to be handled with the precision you see at the Primary School so we'll continue to avoid it as much as possible.

cheeks..not just for pinching anymore

okay who knew that lamb cheeks would be so down right melt in your mouth tasty? Honestly not me but when we heard that was the appetizer du jour last night at Northshore Brasserie we thought WWBD(what would Bourdain do)? We agreed he'll eat anything so we should be adventurous & order them and of course the escargot for David, followed by pork tenderloin & lamb shank then apple crisp & creme brulee. Start to finish the meal was exquisite far better than one would expect of a restaurant in a strip mall despite ringing endorsements by Missy and many many folks on twitter. I am anxious to try the mussels next time as well as try their brunch and quite frankly have already picked that as my birthday dining experience even though we have a few weeks to go on that!