Urban Legend Stands the Test of Time

Do you know any spooky urban legends?

Do you tell them to your children?

I made the mistake of sharing one with Griffin.

Read all about it here and 

be sure to leave a comment over at Athens Patch.

Let me brag about these cheesy spiders

It's my turn to bring snack for Koen's class

so I just couldn't resist throwing together a spooky treat for Halloween.

They were super duper easy to make.

Here's the instructions if you want to make some too...

 I found it over at disneyfamily.com

Hands-On Time: 3 minutes
Ready In: 3 minutes
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients

Mini Babybel cheese
4 small pretzel sticks
2 raisins

Directions

1. Unwrap a Mini Babybel cheese and take the wax off. Break 4 small pretzel sticks ("spider legs") in half and insert at an angle into the underside of the cheese, arranging 4 on each side. (For longer legs, use 8 whole pretzel sticks.) Add 2 raisins for eyes; use a pretzel to auger out eye holes. 

Happy Halloween!

52 Weeks of Happiness :: Week 34

Oh the fun to be had at the pumpkin patch.

We took our 2nd annual trip over the weekend

and have officially decided that we will return every single year

until the kids turn into surly teenagers and refuse to go.

There's a super duper fun hayride,

a huge bouncy pillow

where you can get some major air,

a vortex tunnel that makes you feel dizzy and alive,

a huge corn maze,

(we got lost and just cheated and escaped through the corn)

pig races,

pig noses,

a cow train,

and awesome memories!

P.S. Let's all lift up prayers for our northeastern friends!
Stay safe out there!

 

                                            
 

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Want to join me in my quest
to scout out happiness for a whole year?
Simply post a photo of something that
makes you wildly happy and tell us all about it.
Then, steal my button and include it in your post.
Don't forget to link up to Mr. Linky.

Winner : Glamour Shot Edition

We have a winner for this week's installment of Freakshow Friday. Please take note that my super hilarious and non biased best friend was the judge. Here are the top three in no particular order.

Linda D
 Lucy, a liberal from Ohio, got the news
of who won the presidential election right
 in the middle of her glamour shot.

 Kearsie
Just as the photographer said
"Gimme your best Angelina Jolie!",
Mary's milkshake digested.

Kelly Lund and the Kids
Oh NO!! I just Sharded!

 and the winner is...
Kearsie

Just as the photographer said 
"Gimme your best Angelina Jolie!", 
Mary's milkshake digested. 

Kearsie
is the funniest blogger in all the land

Please visit his blogand marvel at this fantastic award he just earned!

Thanks to all the people who played.
Tune in this Friday for another installment of Freakshow Friday!

Freakshow Friday : Glamour Shot Edition

It's time for another installment of Freakshow Friday. Where I ask my readers to come up with a caption or story for a funny photo. My best friend will be the judge and she's one hilarious freakaziod. So, bring it! Here is this week's photo, I love this lady.

"Surprise, I'm sexy!"

You got a better one for me?

If so, you may just when this
super duper brand new awesome award
and have bragging rights forever.
Oh...do I ever have an award for you!
You will win this brand spankin' new award!!

If you win then I'll link up to your
Blog and make a big deal
about how funny you are.
Simply leave your funny caption or story
in my comments section.

The winner will be announced on Monday.

Local Love : Heirloom Cafe

I had lunch with a friend yesterday

and we decided to meet up at a local place 

called Heirloom Cafe that people around here 

have been gushing about. 

 

I decided to give it a shot

and I'm so glad that I did.

They have an awesome patio

and it was such a beautiful sunny day

to sit beneath a big red umbrella

and chat with a good friend.

I decided to live life on the edge and order a Mimosa.

Who was that relaxed woman, sitting outside without children,

and drinking a champagne drink at 11:30 in the morning?

Me, that's who. I know, I'm just so crazy.

The drink was yummy, by the way.

The waitress was very accomidating 

about my gluten nonsense and 

suggested that I order the Fall Fig Salad.

Mixed greens, dried figs, roasted fall squash,
pickled red onions, goat cheese, candied pecan vinaigrette...

be still my beating heart.

 

It was sooooooooo yummy!

 So, I can honestly send some local love to Heirloom Cafe.

Good Housekeeping

I need some advice!

Do you keep a tidy home?

What's your secret?

Are you more  like me and feel overwhelmed

with the juggle housework and motherhood?

Please click here to read

this week's column and leave a comment

 over at Athens Patch!

Hunting for Crystals

I've been pondering lately about the motivations 

behind each of the posts on this blog.

Sometimes I write a post because my creativity 

is brimming and I have no choice but to let my vision take over. 

Other times, I want to celebrate a wonderful 

moment in my life and document it here on these pages.

Sometimes, I hope to inspire my readers
to slow down and enjoy the smallest and most fleeting moments life.

Other times, I blog for my children.

So that they will have a record of their childhood.

I recently went on a field trip with Griffin's class

on a quest to find crystals buried in a Georgia field.

The kids felt like explorers and it was amazing

to watch their excitement when they unearthed

beautiful rocks and crystals.

Griffin would tell each class member,

"Oh, let my mom take a picture of that one

and she'll put it on her blog!"

They would seek me out in the woods...

"Excuse me, Griffin's mom, will you take a picture of this?"

Who could say no to that request?

So, now I have a whole photo collection

of children proudly showing me their treasures.

I was honored to forever capture that moment in time.

The time when they were so curious and free.

So, here you go sweet kids. 

This blog post if all for you

and your wonderful shiny rocks!

52 Weeks of Happiness :: Week 33

Let me tell you why going to a Fall Festival is so awesome.

Because you can shove two Italian ices in your face at once.

You can get cotton candy that is bigger than your head.

You can wait in line for 45 stinkin' minutes

with a wild three-year-old and

the moment he sits down to get transformed into Batman,

he freezes like a good little statue.

Oh, the excitement of having every single kind junk food

you could possibly want available in one tent

 is almost too much to stand.

Let me tell you, going to a festival with a gluten intolerance 

is almost a form of torture.

I swear that I heard a funnel cake laugh at me when I walked by.

 

Perhaps the biggest success was

purchasing marshmallow shooters for the boys.

The marshmallows have been flying at my house ever since.

I love good old fashioned fun!

 

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to scout out happiness for a whole year?
Simply post a photo of something that
makes you wildly happy and tell us all about it.
Then, steal my button and include it in your post.
Don't forget to link up to Mr. Linky.

Winner : Lizard Family

We have a winner for this week's installment of Freakshow Friday. Please take note that my super hilarious and non biased best friend was the judge. Here are the top three in no particular order.

Linda D

 The lizard was so ashamed of his adoptive family 

that the only way he'd agree to be 

photographed was A$$%-backwards.
 Travis
 After focus-grouping this photo, the producers
of "Full House" decided to make some much needed cast changes.

 Kearsie
 Madame Serena decided to provide photographical evidence
 that she did not eat her children or pets,
according to local legend.

the winner is..

 Travis Sloat

 After focus-grouping this photo, the producers 
of "Full House" decided to make some much needed cast changes. 

Travis Sloat
is the funniest blogger in all the land

Please visit his blogand marvel at this fantastic award he just earned!

Thanks to all the people who played.
Tune in this Friday for another installment of Freakshow Friday!

Freakshow Friday : Lizard Family Edition

It's time for another installment of Freakshow Friday. Where I ask my readers to come up with a caption or story for a funny photo. My best friend will be the judge and she's one hilarious freakaziod. So, bring it! Here is this week's photo, it's a little scary.

Lizzie the lizard must have crapped on mom's head.

You got a better one for me?

If so, you may just when this
super duper brand new awesome award
and have bragging rights forever.
Oh...do I ever have an award for you!
You will win this brand spankin' new award!!

If you win then I'll link up to your
Blog and make a big deal
about how funny you are.
Simply leave your funny caption or story
in my comments section.

The winner will be announced on Monday.

Over-scheduled Kids

How many after school activities do your children participate in?

Do you ever feel like it's too much?

Click here to read the article and join the discussion

by leaving a comment over at Athens Patch.

Wild Flower Love Affair

One of my favorite things about going to the plantation

is seeing the expansive fields of tall grass and flowers.

This is the perfect habitat for quail and 

since the property is a hunting preserve,

the land is groomed to have wild blooms 

spread all over the place.

It's a dream come true for a flower bandit like me.

Since we all know that I 

can't just admire a flower

without walking up and saying hello,

here are some of the lovely ladies

that I encountered while in South Georgia.

I met electric pink flowers,

cascading white flowers,

little yellow flowers hugging sweet white flowers,

white blooms that looked like tiny firework explosions,

 

and I even swooned at purple Beautyberries too.

It was a wild flower love affair.