Ok, so it's been a looong time since I've had even an extra minute to spare, and I definitely haven't had the time to post anything here. But now things are calming down. Still have some catching up to do, but I think I can take a minute to do this, I hope! ;-)
Today is my 10 year wedding anniversary! I can not believe it's been 10 years already. The time has passed so quickly.
This is a big one! It would be nice to be able to celebrate properly, but unfortunately, there is still too much work to do. :-(
We went out for dinner, toting all 3 kids, and we'll sit and have some champagne together once the kids have gone to sleep. But then it's back to work.
It was quite an eventful week! I got the last of my Halloween orders out just in the nick of time, early last week. Then I still had to make costumes for 2 of my kids!
Tieran decided last minute that she wanted to be a Black Widow Queen. That was ok with me, it was going to be just the same amount of work as all of the other ideas she had over the weeks prior. But then there was Bronson's. Ugh.
Bronson decided weeks ago that he wanted to be a Praying Mantis. He's had an obsession for many months now, so it wasn't a big surprise that he would want to be a Praying Mantis for Halloween. I knew I'd be pressed for time, so I searched and searched for a Praying Mantis costume, and I did my best to try to convince him to choose from the catalog of costumes. No luck. So... with days to go before Halloween I began working on his Praying Mantis costume. I had big plans, too. Unfortunately, as things progressed, I realized I wasn't going to be able to get it all done in time, so I began to drop certain details here and there.
Friday came around and Roman and Tieran got to wear their costumes to school! They looked fantastic! Bronson slept in that morning, so he was very excited to get to go pick them up and see everyone in their costumes, but he wanted to wear a costume, too! His "Mantis" costume wasn't done yet, so he wore a skeleton shirt he had. Then he said to me, "I want to be a skeleton!" Oy, now you tell me!
The day before Halloween, there was no way I was going to be able to find a skeleton costume, nor did I have the time to go looking for one. So I told him, "Sorry bud, it's too late to change your costume."
Now, Friday was also my birthday. It was just another day like any other. Nothing special, didn't even have a cake this year, but there was just way too much going on! Maybe we'll get to do something good for my 30th. ;-)
Then Friday evening I took Tieran to her first Halloween party! She had a blast!
By the time I got home, I was exhausted! I actually fell asleep on the couch!
The next morning I got up and immediately realized that I still needed to finish Bronson costume! A slight sense of panic ran through me, but then, suddenly, I remembered something! I remembered that we have a perfect skeleton costume that I bought to add to our dress up trunk after Halloween a few years ago! I jumped out of bed and frantically began searching!Unfortunately, we still haven't unpacked half the boxes from when we moved. I knew where the dress up trunk was, and amazingly, I was able to get to it and look through it, but there was no skeleton costume inside. :-( I wasn't going to give up that easily. I looked through the boys closet, and all of the boys boxes that I could get to. Then, just when I was about to give up, I remembered that I had a few costumes that got hung up in my room, the last time I washed them. I walked in the room. I could see the costumes from the door. There was a black one hanging right at the end. Could it be the skeleton costume? It was! I was so relieved! Bronson was ecstatic!
Everyone got to be just what they wanted to be for Halloween! Roman was a mad scientist, Tieran was a Black Widow Queen, and Bronson was a skeleton! And, now Bronson has a pretty cool Mantis costume to dress up in at home. :-P
