Ode to My Pumpkin

How are you pumpkin?

I love you in the fall when you grow real tall

With the knife I skillfully cut to get all your guts

I carve all eve to make you grand, I even give you a hand.

I preserving you every night to hope that you will live to see a frightful sight

I forgot that faithful night you froze and the squirrels ate off your nose.

Then the day finally arrives and you look alive with the candle that glows deep inside.

But Alas the garbage you meet when the mold is all over your pumpkin feet.

Please come back my orange friend next time I promise you will not meet such a dismal end.

I am not a poet and I know it buT I love my pumpkins.

I had a my 2nd annually moms pumpkin carving party the picture is of the fabulous pumpkins. Every year it is a struggle to get the kids in bed. This year was no different they real enjoyed talking to everyone including KnittingZeal who was also in attendance. We had a great night finished 2 bottles of wine between the 9 of us. I did the "welcome" pumpkin this year because I was hoping my hubby would carve another one of our kids heads this year below is a picture of his last year. He is the carving artist. Time is running out and I don't think it is going to happen. I have day to make my daughter halloween costume.

Quick and Easy Pumpkin Crowd Pleaser

It Arrived!!!!!

At my local Trader Joe's the best box mix EVERY Trader Joe's Pumpkin Bread Muffin Mix. I do like to make things from scratch but due to my business my I do not have time in the Fall (Halloween and Christmas). So this is my answer for feeling like a homemaker with out the fuss. The TJ Pumpkin Mix is not over powering with spice but you can taste the ginger and smell the pumpkin. My kids love it!!! It is 2.59 a box and it here very limited supply. I purchase about 10 boxes and use them for every thing I give to teachers for a fall gift, brings to Friends house. Also I try to bring muffins to my all important Postal Workers how put up with me running in everyday to the PO... 5min before they close, with my kids. A thanks goes a big way.

it cost $2.59 a box

2 eggs

1 cup of water

1/2 cup of oil

Your family and Friends will think you are the best.... so stock up I did.

And the Clock Ticks

Random though for today:

Like everyone I am hurried rushed never enough time. Balancing Family, Friends, commitments and work. Sometimes I think slow down you are missing it. Then I pause breath and look around. But the truth is I like being busy I have a need to get things done that I want to do (cleaning is not one of them from the looks of the window behind the cat), for need to be busy I make no excuse. Don't get me wrong I like to sit, but sitting usually entails knitting or working on the computer. But there is days where I wish the clock would stop and I had some lost hours so I can create more, I think I need to design some more clothes. I know I have issues...

Cats and dogs they sleep all day. We serve them who has the better life?

My Favorite book When I was 5

This Book was my favorite book as a child . The book The Lonely Doll was created in 1957' by a Dare Wright. I remember checking the book out from the school library through out grade school. The book I checked out was a hardcover book with a thin plastic protector on it. I think it was the first book I ever check it out and remember checking it out more than once as a kid. I can still smell the must old smell of the book which must have been 20+years old when I checked it out 1976.

The basic idea of the book is of a Lonely Doll named Edith alonely doll being visited by 2 Teddy bears, who decided to stay. Mr. Bear is the father figure. The doll and little bear are the children who get in trouble. It is all black and white photos of a a doll with teddy just the way you dreamed when you made them talk when you were 5 and the toys come to life it is a beautiful book.

One day I was looking through Barnes Noble and there it was all the memories from my childhood flooded back. I purchased this book for my daughter at once.

The funny thing is the book has one part where little bear and Edith get in trouble. Mr. Bear spanks the Edith and Little Bear, this part I did not remember after 30 years. This book is a book that would be taboo nowadays for the spanking. When Specking with a freinds recalled the book and said they would not get it because of this spanking picture even though they loved the book as a child. In the end I love the fact Mr Bear would be there even when she was bad, gets punished, she still is loved, and the doll would never be alone again and that was the point of the story. I decided to let my daughter enjoy the book as I always have and we simply skim over this part. (Times have changed). My Daughter loves Edith and little bear she looks forward to them at bed time.

Sometimes it is good to remember the past and be a kid again. I might have to get Dare's other books.