Wacky Wednesday

Today is one of those days where I just stopped and laughed.  The past week has been a blur of shipping almost 400 pairs of engraved sunglasses (who said corporate retreat gifts were boring!), a school fundraiser and the realization that Mini K needed new running shoes when her toe popped through the top of hers.  Baby C's costume arrived in the nick of time...the first one was literally sewn together and the replacement arrived yesterday.

I finally just wanted to sit down with a glass of...ice water (I am daring tonight I know!) and blog while watching Nashville.  I still need to locate the kids Halloween trick or treat bags, tie the tags on to both of the little class party treat bags and pack up their costumes for their respective school parades tomorrow.  Halloween for me marks the start of the crazy holiday season and this year is already shaping up to be a great one.  Mini K has appointed herself the chief ribbon cutter for the Grove and I am already humbled by the faith our corporate clients have in us to pick out the perfect items for them. This seems to be the year of the tween and the stocking stuffer and I promise to be posting gift lists in the next few weeks.

I promise to post photos of all of our Halloween moments tomorrow to make up for a boring....now if only someone can tell my brain where I packed up the treat bags last November 1st....I KNOW it was someplace that would make it easy for me to remember this year.   Clearly I am a GENIUS right?

Oh well, maybe a piece of candy will help my memory!

It's Boo'd Time Bark Style

Mini K is finally old enough this year to understand my family tradition of Booing people...other than Aggies at football game! I know this is not unique to my family, or just the South, so ignore this post if you already know this tradition.

To BOO a house you essentially make a treat and note letting them know they have been

BOO'd, ring the doorbell and run! In theory you don't sign the note, but Mini K wants people to know she played a sweet trick on them so we signed ours. So watch out if you are in our neighborhood, because Mini K is playing tricks!

Our treat of choice this year is candy corn bark and it came from my twitter/blogworld friend Miss M...if you haven't read her blog you are missing out!

Ingredients

White Chocolate (we did another batch with dark chocolate as well)

crushed preztels

crushed Oreos

and of course candy corn

Directions

place candy corn, Oreos and pretzels on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper

melt chocolate

pour over cookie sheet

let harden and break apart

We place ours in cello bags and tied with preppy Halloween grosgrain ribbon and our BOO'd notes!

This is a great recipe to do alone or with little helpers.

Tomorrow is a school holiday and we have quite the day planned. Tomorrow is our self proclaimed Big Sister Day..Mini K's good friend R became a Big Sister a week ago tomorrow so the girls are going to spend the afternoon together...I think I see mani/pedis and ice cream in their future!

Hope y'all had a great weekend!

Decisions Decisions

I cannot plan a party until we have a theme, and Halloween is just too general. SO we wait...for Mini K to decide what she wants to be for Halloween. Full disclosure, she came up with "the best" plan: she would get 4 costumes, they would go in the red wagon and when she felt like changing mid-trick or treating (and yes I know that is not really a word/phrase) she would. That idea was met with what we call the parental veto, because life as a 4 year old in this house is not a buffet or a democracy!

So Baby C is going to be....a monkey

And the current choice for Mini K is...a southern belle...

I have to go back to unpacking boxes, but I think our next giveaway will start on Monday...so get ready!