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October Monthly Musing

 Hey loves. Happy Thursday. Its Time for Monthly Musings with for Patty and Holly.




Kids Halloween Themed Books 2024

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Happy Fall. The chill is in the air, the leaves are changing, and Halloween is right around the corner. We grabbed a bunch of fun, cute Halloween themed books. We ended up reading them numerous times as my kids love to read. I am sharing with you our book haul in hopes to add a few new titles to your collection.



Fall and Halloween Home Tour 2024

 Hey friends. It is finally starting to feel like fall. Ohio had an abnormally warm September. I am ready for the chilly mornings and change of the leaves. Last month I decorated for Fall and Halloween. It was later in the month than I had wanted to so I just did both. After Halloween, the Halloween decorations will come down and I will leave up fall decorations and add a few things for Thanksgiving. 

I am so proud of myself. I did not buy any new decorations this year. I actually got rid of a bunch that I never use, or were broken. I will try and link what I can. A lot of random decorations are from Dollar Tree, old, or I have no idea where I bought. The candles in our house are all from Kirklands. (I shop them on sale)


Kids Halloween Fall Themed Books

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Hey loves. Happy Fall. The chill is in the air, the leaves are changing, and Halloween is right around the corner.  A few weeks ago Audrianna and I visited our local library and picked out a bunch of fun, cute Halloween and Fall themed books. We ended up reading them numerous times as Anna loves to read. I am sharing with you our book haul in hopes to add a few new titles to your collection. 


Halloween Outside Decorations

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Hey loves. We finally got outside to decorate for Halloween. Brian has been ripping out some landscaping, planting grass, moving rocks, getting a back patio and more outside projects that put a hold on decorating. Between schedules and the weather we have gotten pretty much everything done that we are going to be doing this year, (at least I think we are done for now). With that means I dragged down the Halloween outdoor decorations from the attic and got to decorating. Welcome lets take a look.

Halloween and Fall Home Tour 2023

 Hey loves. There is a chill in the air and I have decorated the inside of the house for Fall and Halloween. We have not done outside yet because we are working on pulling out our flower beds and redoing them to our taste. After Halloween I will take down all the Halloween decorations, leave up the fall and add some Thanksgiving decor as we are host Thanksgiving dinner again this year. 

This year I ended up buying a bunch of new cute decorations from the Dollar Tree, way more than I realized. I also grabbed a few random things from Target Dollar Spot. All our fall candles are from Kirklands. I am still getting a feel for our house, this is only the second year decorating for Halloween. I took these pictures when I first decorated and some have magically been rehomed by little fingers. 

Things I've Got My Eyes On

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 Hey loves. I don't know about where you live but here in northern Ohio it isn't feeling like hot sticky summer. We have had a lot of rain, gloomy days, and temps in the low 70s. All this has me itching for all things fall and pumpkin. I want to curl up with a cozy blanket, burn a pumpkin candle, drinking some hot tea (or maybe a good wine) and reading on my kindle. I have been browsing (and buying) all the fall and Halloween stuff. I have made the mistake previous years saying I will go back later and buy something and then it is gone. Let's see what I have my eye on this season.

Halloween Finger Paint Craft

 Hey loves. Anna has been asking to paint. Everyday she wants to paint something. I finally caved and planned a fun Halloween craft for her to do. I thought this cute bat finger paint craft would be perfect for her. She loves to paint and get messy. It was so easy and she didn't need much help, just supervision. 

Halloween Safety Tips

 Halloween is right around the corner. We are over here picking out costumes, and planning all the fun. The fall festivals and trunk or treats have already started too. No one wants to start off the Holiday season with an accident. Today I am sharing some Halloween safety tips that have been on my mind. 

All Things Fall and Halloween

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Hey loves. Happy first official day of Fall, y'all. I am here waiting for fall weather to come back. Today's temps are in the 80s. Can we go back to the 60s and lower 70s. I was enjoying the a/c being off and the windows open. The last few days the humidity has been in the 90s too making it sticky outside.

Today I am sharing with you some cute fall and Halloween finds that I either already have or want. 

Apparel

Friday Favorites- Halloween Fun

 Hey loves. Happy Friday. Halloween was already to weeks ago, things have been crazy and I haven't gotten the chance to recap it. How was your Halloween weekend? 



Time for some Friday Favorites with these lovely ladies: Erika, and Andrea.

Halloween Recap

 We had such a fun Halloween week throwing in little bits of Halloween fun everyday. This year has ruined a lot of different things we had planned, from vacations to play dates, to fall festials and more. I wanted to bring some excitement and happy memories to 2020 for my kids, my family, and myself. Our fun started on Sunday and went to Halloween on Saturday.

Happy Halloween

 


Happy Halloween!!! Hope you have a fun and safe Halloween. Remember tonight is also day light savings and time to change the clocks. We fall back one hour. 


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Halloween Decor

 This year is just so strange to say the least. Normally by this time of the month we would have already been to a pumpkin patch and pumpkins would be sitting on my front porch. This year I don't have pumpkins, I have mums that are dying. We are trying to keep in the spirit and some normalcy even though I really just want to decorate for Christmas. Plus we also have a kitchen remodel still going on, it has been going on since January. We are hopefully in the home stretch. There is still a deck in the process of being repainted and a few finishing touches needed done in the basement and bathroom. Maybe all this clutter is also what is flogging my brain.

OK No more rambling. Lets see some Halloween House decor. This is not everything inside, but you will get the idea of our fun. I did do some outside but we have had some strong winds that knocked some stuff over and a witches hat flew away. I will redecorate all that soon.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween. We are have a busy day with Ella's school Halloween party, a fun spooky dinner planned, and Trick or Treating tonight for the kids (hopefully the rain holds off). Hope you have a safe and fun Halloween.

Halloween Home Tour

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Happy Monday. Halloween is almost here. Before you know it it will be all things Christmas. 



I wanted to share this years decorations. I have some cute new Amazon finds.

Kids Halloween Jokes

Happy Tuesday. October is flying by. Halloween is just a few weeks away. Our house is decorated, kids have their costumes, and we are already discussing all the trick or treating plans. Today I am linking up with Ashley and Erika and you blog about anything and everything. 


In April I talked about Our Easter
In March I talked about Potty Training
In September I invited other bloggers to join in a new Link Party
(still looking for cohosts for new years link party)

We have an 8 year old who loves jokes. She likes to take my iphone and tell Siri jokes and ask her for jokes, then gets mad when she doesn't understand and argues with her. What did we do before Siri? (now I need an echo so she doesn't have to take my phone)

Friday Favorite Halloween Edition

Happy Friday. Halloween is officially over, now bring on Christmas. This years Halloween and fall festivities did not go as planned. We had a crappy October in Ohio with cold weather, lots rain, storms, power outages, and sick kids. We did end up making some memories but not as many as normal.

Halloween Fun

Halloween is now past and everything will turn to CHRISTMAS. I can officially start listening to Christmas music (and driving Brian nuts), I had already started Christmas movies last week with the Hallmark Channel. Time to take down the witches, ghosts, and Halloween decorations. Don't worry I will bring back out the scarecrows and leave the pumpkins out until after Thanksgiving. I don't do a complete jump into Christmas just yet. I still love Thanksgiving, we are even hosting a Friendsgiving this weekend. It will be my first time cooking a turkey. (Wish me luck) 

There's just a few more recaps from Halloween I want to back-up and show you a glimpse of.


Last Thursday Ella asked to carve pumpkins. I had originally planned to do it the Monday before Halloween but agreed to doing it that night. She is little miss independent. Ella tried to cut the top herself, but needed help, she gutted all her guts and smile and carved her face all by herself. She has never been afraid of getting her hands gooey


We had two carve-able pumpkins. The plan was supposed to be Brian carved one and I helped Ella with hers. She had other plans and didn't want any help. Austin wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins or the guts. 


Look at her focused face. 


My independent having fun.


Here were the final results. Ella carved a Pumpkin Face as she calls it. He had two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and two ears. (last year she also gave her pumpkin hair). Brian carved the castle with the heart and Tinkerbell ball at the top. No we don't have a Disney obsession at all.


All Hallows Eve. I surprised everyone with donuts and latte's for Brian and I. 


Ella changed her mind at the last minute and wanted to be Draculara from Monster High. Her father had brought the costume over the night before. He had also brought a wig but she didn't want to wear it all day at school, so we went with pink pigtails instead. 


This girl had so much energy yesterday morning. She was so excited for her school party, to show her friends her costume, and to go Trick or Treating. 


I love Aubriella's school. To our surprise when I dropped her off yesterday morning all the teacher and staff that wait outside to open car doors to let the kids out were all dressed as Waldo. (Even though Ella had no idea who Waldo was, we have to work on that) Everyone had on matching red and white stripped shirts, stocking caps, and glasses. She really has the best school. 
At Ella's school they had a Halloween parade for parents to come watch all the kids walk around in costume. I was at the beginning of the parade and it took 10 minutes to see all the kids. After the parade the kids went back to their rooms, parents left, and kids had a party. I was lucky enough to volunteer to help at the party in Ella's room. 


Each kid got to eat a brownie with cute candy eyeballs, a delicious cupcake, goldfish, pretzels, fruit roll-up, pumpkin shaped sugar cookie, an orange, and a juice box. They also colored a bag and some kids brought in treat bags to pass out to each kid also. 


After the kids ate the PTA donated some games for them to play. We had pin the smile on the Jack-o-lantern and pass the pumpkin to Halloween music (which was like hot potato). The kids favorite was the pass the pumpkin.


Aubriella's teacher also had a bean bag toss. The boys especially liked this game. 


I knew that Halloween was going to be a busy day. I planned a quick delicious dinner of just pasta with red sauce and garlic bread. I found this really cute Halloween Pasta at World Market that had different shapes, pumpkins, spiders, and bats. It also was only made with four ingredients. I never realized how many ingredients are in normal pastas. 


Time for Trick or Treating. Ella decided that since her hair was pink still she couldn't be a purple witch, but wanted to wear her tulle witch skirt under her Dracula costume. It was a cold night (felt like 33 degrees) she had on two sweatshirt, two pairs of socks, jogging pants, gloves, boots, and her costume. She never complained of being cold.
Austin was dressed as Superman. He had layers of warm clothes under his costume, kept his shoes on, two pairs of socks, his hat, mittens, and was wrapped in a blanket. His little nose and cheeks were red when we got home though.
Brian was had a Darth Vader shirt on with a cape. He complained his hands were cold, but wasn't prepared with gloves. I was nice to give him my gloves. I wasn't dressed up. My Batmom shirt wouldn't fit over my coat and I was more concerned with staying warm then dressing up. 


Aubriella led the way. She had lots of fun, we went to lots of houses, and got lots of candy. Most of the candy was candy bars, a couple King size candy bars, and mostly stuff they will eat. 


Ella lasted until 7 (it started at 6) and wanted to go home and pass out candy. We had bought some tootsie rolls to pass out incase we were home. I wanted something I knew would get eaten and we could give handfuls of. We got home at 730 and only had 2 kids until 8. We have so much candy. 

Hope you had a fun and safe Halloween. 

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Happy Halloween


Happy Halloween everyone. Today is the end of our Halloween fun but still lots of fun in store. Today Aubriella has the parade of costumes and Boo at Birch classroom party that I get to help run. Tonight is our neighborhood Trick or Treating. Hopefully it's not to cold outside. 

Hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. 


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