Happy Halloween and a little ranting and raving

Taylor had school off on Friday (Oct 31st) so I thought we'd have some fun and make a special Halloween breakfast. I had committed to make brownies for a RS funeral and also make this Butternut Squash Apple Bisque that is our tradition to eat on Halloween night, but I had saved it all for that day. You know in your mind when you think you can be an over achiever, super mom, and have the house clean. Oh, we also had to pack for the night because we were meeting the Jones' in Hemet (and needed to leave early to miss traffic) to celebrate Halloween and I needed to finish putting together these little gifts that I had for them... I know I totally set myself up for failure and frustration and the want to be 'super mom' might have turned evil on Halloween all for the sake of trying to make it fun and memorable.

As I was cooking, baking and trying to let my little helpers assist, something told me to check my load of laundry. As I walked into the hall to the laundry room, I stepped in water! Yikes, yes the washer was leaking somehow and it had flooded the laundry room, bathroom, and it was coming down the hall! I just started to cry, I did not have time for this... !!! As Taylor is running up the stairs for me to gather more towels and I'm frantically trying soak up the flood, Brent shows up in the door way with a big grin on his face and says "look mom I got my flippers" I look down and sure enough, he is in his swim flippers... totally ready for the flooded occasion. I was still crying at this point but now laughing simultaneously. I love how kids always know how to put things in perspective for me.

Here are a few pictures of our morning...



Tay and Brent enjoying their "Purple People Eater" Smoothies



Taylor's Pumpkin Pancake... she did the orange food coloring in the batter herself and loved it (it doesn't show as orange as it really was) ... if you look closely, you can see Brent reaching for the bag of chocolate chips while we were busy snapping pictures... so this leads into the next picture



The bag of chocolate chips spilled all over the floor and while my cute little mother Taylor was trying to clean it up, Brent was scooping hand fulls off the floor and shoving them into his mouth... at this point I just thought, what the heck I'll just capture the moment.






(beginning stages of Bisque)


After our Halloween breakfast, and the brownies were made and the Butternut Squash Bisque was made, the flood cleaned up, the car packed, a Target trip under our belts, and then the air conditioning going out in the van, we were off to Hemet a few hours late but we got there just in time to trick or treat and have so much fun with our dear friends, the Jones'. I love Halloween... whew... I'm so good at making life harder than it needs to be...