This week was our unofficial Fall Break. What that translates to is 2 (for Merrick) or 3 (for C.C) days off school for parent/teacher conferences. We have only been in school for a few weeks so it seems strange to already have a day off, but I never turn down extra time with my kids.
We had some fun crafting and prepping for Halloween. Our old neighbor has a birthday next week and we decided a craft that the kids helped make would be the perfect gift. We came up with some holiday votive holder vases. They turned out pretty cute so hopefully she likes them. The girls and I also went to a farm and garden store and picked out pumpkins. We didn't buy pumpkins at the pumpkin patch but this was still fun because they had a pumpkin washing station where you could scrub your chosen pumpkin and have a little more fun than just grabbing one at the grocery store.
The extra time the last few days even gave us time for something that has been almost a year in the making. We finally got around to putting up the basketball hoop Merrick got for last Christmas. When he first got it, we couldn't put it up because we were still waiting for our new house. When we finally moved in, the next door neighbors had a hoop and it just didn't seem like a big priority with everything we were trying to get accomplished. Merrick frequently asked, but it just never made it to the top of the priority list. This weekend we FINALLY got it done, much to C.C.'s disappointment because it meant she didn't get to carve pumpkins.
Oh well, there is always next weekend....or next Halloween at the speed we seems to operate.
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