i'm sorry friends. i told you over a week ago that i'd be back the next day to tell you more. where has the past week and a half of my life gone?! let's see, i'll do my best to try to remember. first i should warn you though, i have come down with a terrible crud - be it a cold, the flu, whatever - and it has my brain feeling foggy.
let me begin with halloween weekend, which was busy, but fun. i had mini sessions on saturday october 30th which all went really well & i was so happy that i had decided to do them. mini sessions may just be my favorite because you get in and get out. but what happens is i know i'm on a time limit, so i make every minute count! the other nice thing (for me) about them is there is a 10 picture limit. now, i take much more than 10 pictures, but i narrow them down & only edit & show 10. this cuts down my editing time in a major way & makes me feel like i can accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. the other thing that i've found, is my clients don't feel so overwhelmed with too many pictures to choose from. maybe i'm on to something here?
that same weekend jeremy started painting the bonus room. unfortunately, he ran out of paint before the job was completed & he also had an asthma attack in the process. poor guy! so we are now left with a half painted bonus room, which is just as bad (probably worse) than an unpainted bonus room and jeremy was left with a trip to urgent care on monday morning and diagnosed with bronchitis. on the plus side, once the room is finally painted, it will look very nice! its just a matter of when-the-heck-will-i-have-time-to-finish-painting-the-bonus-room?! i'm afraid to let jeremy back up there with a paint brush for 2 reasons - 1. he always gets paint on the ceiling no matter how many times i nag him not to and 2. his lungs probably can not handle any more paint for quite some time.
do i dare share my desk with you?! you can see here why i desperately need order & organization in our bonus room. my desk is a disaster zone...
with sunday being halloween, it was time we carved our remaining 2 pumpkins. while jeremy was upstairs painting, rivers and i were downstairs carving. for the first time ever, i saved the pumpkin seeds & roasted them in the oven. i sprinkled them with sea salt & cinnamon sugar, which made for a tasty sweet & salty treat. jeremy really enjoyed them & asked me to make more last week. i told him we'd need more pumpkins! time surely did slip away from me that day & rivers did not get to bed until a little after 10 pm!
of course, sunday was halloween & to be perfectly honest i have no recollection of what we did all day sunday. my best guess would be laundry, cleaning, editing, etc. i do recall however, that rivers refused a nap & laid talking in his crib for at least an hour, which is so unusual for him. gigi & papa came over for an early dinner & enjoyed seeing rivers in his costumes as well as passed out candy while we walked rivers to a few houses for trick or treating. have i ever explained that rivers does not care for candy? have you ever heard of such a thing?! he saw his gigi eating a lollipop, so he thought he'd try one. he took not but 1 lick before giving it back. so as you can imagine, trick or treating for candy really isn't all too exciting for rivers. we went to maybe 5 houses before we came home, dumped his bucket into our candy supply that we were passing out, and changed costumes at that point. he sure was happy to give his candy away though! he really enjoyed seeing all the kids coming up to our house in their costumes. by 8:00 i was out of candy with the exception of 6 kit kat bars, which i deemed were mine, so i turned off the light & ran rivers a bath. he was in bed by 8:30 and was quickly asleep! here we are with our little gorilla & crayon...
to see more you can visit
my smugmug page, if you haven't already!
so now that i have written you a novel about halloween weekend, i will take a break & hope to be back very soon to tell you of our visit at montessori as well as what we did this past weekend.
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