It's About TIme & Halloween

I have not been interested in blogging for months.

It was a task to convince myself to write the last post, and it's

been this long before I've really thought about posting another.

I don't know why that is.

I even stopped reading blogs, even though I love, love, love

to read the blog posts of my friends and see what you are up to.

And I missed a lot, which makes me sad.

But I can't go back and change my actions.

We've had a lot going on around here since summer, even though there

are so many days that it doesn't feel like it.

But I'm not feeling well today, so it's a lazy day and perfect to get

back to blogging, right?

And I'm going to start small.

The girls, of course, wanted to be princesses for Halloween.

And they, of course, wanted to be pink and purple princesses.

So I headed to the fabric store and bought fleece, since it was on sale

and I thought it'd be nice and warm for a costume.

I bought two yards of each color & had plenty of fabric, so these dresses

were $8 a piece, and then I'll probably make some new winter hats with the rest.

 I just used some elastic and felt from my fabric stash to make the crowns, after

finding a great tutorial and pattern online somewhere.

 The boys were all going to be grandpas, and we were going to cut Sour Cream's 

hair into a grandpa style (shave the top bald), but I never made it to

the thrift store to find him or daddy a sweater for their costume, so I ended up

improvising.  He wore his jeans, plaid coat, winter hat, and I made a quick

felt axe so he could be a lumberjack.

I tried putting some makeup on his face to give him a goatee, but he resisted

and it looked like a bunch of gunk, so I wiped it off and we were out the door.

And the baby, of course, hated his outfit.  But he was warm

and it was in our costume box.