Halloween finale

Ok, so this is the last you will hear about Halloween for at least 11 months!

Maelie had a blast at school today with her friends. I joined them this afternoon, they took a walk outside around the block, then went back in and distributed candy... and ate more and more and more candy!

Maelie's classmates are just so adorable! I was able to chit chat with a few of them that were not too shy. I tried to get a picture of Maelie with Theodore, but someone pushed him just as I was taking the picture, so he looks a bit upset on the picture. He is so adorable! It surprises me that Maelie is so interested in someone so shy.



This is how my throw up pumpkin ended up:



I liked it!

We went trick or treating with our dear friends & neighbors, Raphael and Koryne.



We visited our little street and one other street and Maelie was done. We came home and handed out candy. It started early this year... 5:30 and we had our first guests! Last ones were at about 7:30. The weather was nice so we just stayed outside to hand out candy.

Some kids, I would say about age 9 or 10 or so... came by, and one of them even said "you wouldnt happen to be giving out pop or water or anything to drink?" It just SO happened that i had leftover bottles of water in the car (unopened) so i just offered him and his friend a bottle each. He was SO thankful and ecstatic! he was yelling out to his other friends at the next house that he got water... awesome... I have to say, i never saw someone so excited for a bottle of water!! ehhehe

By tomorrow, this house will be void of any evidence that it was Halloween.... away will got the pumpkin curtains and out will come the snowmen ones... !!I have a feeling November and December will be pretty exciting!!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween to all! Today is probably the only day of the week (not weekend) where I didn't have to wake Maelie up to get ready for school. She was so excited she got up on her own.

We prepared a few treats for her class. I just realized I didn't take pics of the mini muffin tray. So just try to imagine it. A halloween tray with a bunch of mini muffins with icing and a little sugar Halloween decoration. There. So much simpler than taking a pic. (It is wrapped up in foil so I don't want to risk damaging it.)

I did however take a picture of the tray filled with grape brochettes and cheese witch broomsticks. That idea came from Kelly at the Halloween party last Saturday. They are so adorable and kids love them.



Also, here is a picture of Jacinthe's Halloween tree. She found the idea in a craft magazine. Man does she have talent! Yes, we do go to neighbors houses and take pictures of things on their porches... we DO get permission first LOL



Also, mentioned in another post, here is a picture of the cookies we made this weekend. I brought some to work and they disappeared VERY quickly.




Here is the chef, hard at work, in her spiderman pyjamas:



Happy Halloween!!

to the point

Sometimes I feel very sorry for Maelie's future husband, whoever that may be. She is very straightforward and to the point, sometimes to a fault. LOL

Maelie asked for a little sibling. She has been asking for quite a while, but I explained to her that daddy thought that 3 children was enough and we had to respect that. When she keeps on begging, I tell her that I am not the one she should be talking to since I would probably not mind having 10 (if I didn't have to work that is). So anyway, I laughed because Bill called at that point, and suggested lasagna for supper as he was craving it. So when I hung up, still on the subject, I said "Maelie, I may not be supposed to tell you this, but the way to a man's heart is through is stomach". I know, I know, I should not be teaching her these things... i even already told her that she could get anything with some people, such as Gilles by sweet talking them. These things may be horrible to teach, yet they are practical. Oh and note that before you think it will get ME in trouble, i did specify that sweet talking doesn't work with me!)

So anyway, being the good wife that I am, I made a lasagana while I was at Costco. I am talented like that. haha. So as Bill was eating his Costco lasagna, Maelie ran to me and whispered "Mom, daddy will want to have a baby now! Sweet talk him" (since the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and he was eating pure love lasagna)

Well all this sweetness didn't get Bill to say yes to have another child. So Maelie, the gentle, loving kid says in a stern, bossy, to the point voice... "Daddy GIVE us your seed. We want another baby."
At that point, I think he almost choked.

ahhahahahahahah
Maelie... the romantic.

countdown to Halloween

Wow... Halloween is in 2 days! amazing how the cliche about time flying is true!
honestly, I have not see time go so fast as it has this year so far. Work is always busy and home life is always trying to keep up.

This Sunday we managed to
- make ghost and cat sugar cookies
- make mini muffins for class snack
- pick up a bargain of a snowsuit at Balue Village. (for those of you who know Souris Mini, you know their snowsuits can go for big bucks. I found a gently used one for 25$ in size 7!)
- stop at Costco to pick up a few necessities including string cheese for a Halloween snack project that Kelly made at the party Saturday night

I had told Maelie we would carve our pumpkins but we didn't end up with enough time to do that. We'll try and do it tonight. running out of time....

Moments in time

Well, Friday we headed off to the school Halloween party. Boy did this remind me of my younger years. Dark with loud music and a bunch of people yelling conversations with each other. All that was missing was the alcohol and it would have reminded me of typical Friday nights when i was say, uh... 18! I feel really old!

I had the honor of meeting Theodore, Maelie's boyfriend. Unfortunately, his mom said he had a fever and he did look quite exhausted. He was with his little sister and cousin. Poor kid... maybe it was the pressure of meeting his future mother in law for the first time? hehehehe I introduced myself, but poor little guy was not impressed. I did manage to sneak a picture though! (His little sister is to the left, on Maelie's right is another of Maelie's classmate) You might notice... he is not completely himself. He is a Ninja Turtle. SO adorable! I apologize for the blur. The one pic that turned out clear was when someone was hiding half of Theo's head.



Saturday, Maelie had a friend over from school in the afternoon. Then in the evening we attended another Halloween party. What a weekend!! I need the whole day to rest today! :) (I was trying to post a picture of the 2nd party, but the site is not letting me upload another picture right now... I'll add it later)

life has a way of telling us things....

Please pray for my cousin who has cancer.

She is young, has 2 young girls, and has her whole life ahead of her. She will beat it and be a role model to all....

Updates in general

Our week started out very hectic as you can tell from the last post. Thank goodness it did not go from bad to worse. It just got better.



Maelie received some Halloween cards from Grandma and Auntie Cindy. She was ecstatic. She loves mail and appreciates it a lot. Thanks Grandma and Cindy!! :)



Today our tree is finally looking pretty bare and our lawn overflowing with wet leaves! We piled them up a bit and filled a couple of pumpkin garbage bags. I definitely must get more. It didn't put a dent in our leaf pile. We also have ghosts to fill and hang on the tree.

I bought a bigger pumpkin today so we can carve it out this weekend. Maelie is convinced we need to make the "throwing up" pumpkin from Martha Stewart. I will definitely take a pic when it's done!



There's Maelie with her missing tooth and with her new post-lice haircut! :)

I had a lot of chocolate orders from wor, which I completed mostly yesterday evening. I worked on that until almost 10 pm. Since Maelie goes to bed at 7:15 - 7:30 now, I stay up a bit later. But by staying up, I mean doing some more stuff! I don't sit down to rest at all. I tried watching Deal or no Deal one day, but my adrenaline rush was so high by the end that I couldn't sleep!



I am donating a haunted house made of chocolate to Maelie's School for the Halloween party on Friday. I am not sure what they will do with it, perhaps raffle it off and raise money for activities... I try my best to do my part. On this picture is the completed project before I wrap it up in cellophane. I love these projects. They just warm hearts!

I have a few other projects that I want to get started on but cannot go into detail on here because of who reads it. Some surprises are best when kept as surprises. I will definitely show all my projects one day! I wish I had more time in a day. I need to get time off work just to craft!


Oh the purple fabric with glittery bats under the plate with the chocolate is actually what I am hoping to turn into a witched cape this week. It would put a nice accent to Maelie's witch costume. I picked it up at Fabricland last Sunday.



Happy Fall!