So, if you read my editorial in the Mid-Valley MOM Magazine you
know that I have 3 kids. And once again I had one that wanted
a store bought costume (Mimi is going as an adorable pink and black
spoted kitty) one that wanted a home made costume (McKenna now has
a black and pink poodle skirt) and one that waited until yesterday
at 3pm and then decided he wanted to be Picachu from
Pokemon'.
I figured finding a gold/yellow sweatsuit shouldn't be to
hard. (We are OSU Beavers at heart but there is quite a bit
of Duck stuff around). But, wouldn't you know it......(insert
explitive here) The Ducks went the green and black route this
year and not a gold color sweatshirt to be found...
Last ditch effort I ran to good old Target. I found a half
zip gold color fleece jacket but no pants. So around the
corner to JoAnn's Fabrics I went. I grabbed a pajama pattern
to make the matching pants and then found fleece that pretty well
matched the jacket. Of course according to the pattern I
didn't have enough material left on the bolt to get the pants and a
hood made for the jacket (picachu's head). So I took what
they had and then they literally locked the dorrs behind me.
Although I didn't feel to bad because they were really busy between
8pm and 9pm last night...guess I am not the only one with a last
minute kid!
By the time I got home, got the kids to bed, saw my husband for
15 minutes, etc, etc. It was now 11:30pm and I still had to
make the darn thing. I cut with lightning speed with the mini
size dull scissors I found in the drawer (remember we just moved
and my sewing stuff is buried in the garage). I sewed the
pants...made the hood, added the ears...crafted the tail and cut
out the face....then I went to bed at 2:00am but was so wired after
the Coke I drank I couldn't sleep until 3:00am.
My son awoke to me hollering..."get out here and get this thing
on so I can get the elastic in your pants...and your tail in the
right spot"! In the mean time I was helping both daughters
with spelling words and a math assignment about how many pockets
our family has on.....AAAhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I finished with 3 minutes to spare..just enough time to pull on
some jeans and run a brush through my hair and one over my
teeth. And off to school we went!
But, my story doesn't end there....I offered to do the crafts
for the girls classes today during their Halloween parties.
Mimi's is finished and individually bagged so the kids can get
right to work...McKenna's were another story.
I had good intentions of making these adorable "Witch Hands"
with clear plastic gloves, candy corn finger nails, filled with
popcorn and then topped off with plastic spider rings. I
borrowed an air popper from a girlfriend after an SOS was sent out
on Facebook. Candy corn..check, ring....check,
rubber band...check....gloves...OH NO...I forgot the
gloves.
How hard could they be to find....hahahahahahaha! (Never
ask yourself that question the morning of the event). All I
could find were the latex type gloves...so I finally called my
local Fred Meyer and they said no...I "needed a restaurant supply
that has gloves like in our deli section...." ding ding
ding...we have an idea... "Can I buy gloves from your deli
section?" and we were off and running. Thomas the Asst,
Grocery Mgr was very helpful and said to come on down and they
would help me out! (Thank goodness for Thomas!) So,
away I drove and now I am a happy camper with gloves in
hand!
I just have to finish popping the popcorn, get a shower, find my
costumes, write this blog, get a few other work related
things done...get to the parties...(I think I will stop there and
just hope I get that far). Thanks for listening to me...I
really just had to tell someone...anyone???
I totally forgot! the Freddy's in Albany has all sorts of
Halloween stuff going on Saturday:
Cake & Cupcake Decorating 11am-4pm (you buy the cakes
and they provide the decorations)
Cake Walk Noon-130pm
Costume Contest 2pm for a chance to win at $25 gift
card to Fred Meyer (open to kids 10 and under)
I am sure the Fred Meyer in your neck of the woods has stuff
going on too! Just give them a call.........gotta go...the
popcorn popper is blowing and I need to put more popcorn in
it! Happy Halloween Everyone! I will get picture of the
costumes up soon!