Ladies, I have truly enjoyed reading your comments about how your husbands rock. It was probably my most exciting blog week to date. I can’t tell you how much it brightened my day to read such uplifting words about your hubbies. I want to encourage all of you to tell your husbands why they rock. Today. Don’t assume they know. Don’t figure they don’t need to hear it. Don’t wait for them to tell you why you rock first. Tell them today what you told me this week. You’ll be so glad you did!
And now for the lucky winner of this fun contest! Thanks to Random.Org for generating this number for me because there is no way I could have picked it myself!
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Timestamp: 2008-11-07 19:27:49 UTC
8JPg It’s so great to hear women singing their husband’s praises! 
My husband, Jake, (my crush since middle school! ) is absolutely incredible. He is a model of patience and love and thoughtfulness in our family. Something I realized this weekend more than ever is that my husband has found the perfect balance between respecting and protecting his rather independent do-it-yourselfer-style wife. We do a lot of projects together, and I love working with him because he is just as much my friend as he is my husband. He loves me AND he LIKES me! He makes me feel like I am beautiful and makes me feel like HE got a good – no GREAT -catch, too. My kids adore their Daddy, and always save their best giggles and smiles for him. He is honest with me in the best way – the way that makes me feel like it’s ok for him to know the gritty grossness of my heart because he loves me way beyond it, and has assured me over all the years I’ve known him that I can be honest with him, too. I could go on and on… but I guess I should exercise a little brevity Talk about a rockin’ hubby! Thanks so much for promoting the husband project and the go-hubby t’s! They are fantastic!
So, let me know if you want the “my husband rocks” tee in either hot pink or brown or the “daisy tee” and I will have From me Tees ship it out to you right away!
For those that didn’t win, you can purchase one for yourself. Check out the link. She has lots of cute styles to chose from. One thing I noticed from my friends and I trying and retrying the shirts on again and again (yes we really were that annoying customer and she really was that patient with us) was that the fitted tees seemed to run a bit small and the non fitted tees seemed to fit big. Keep that in mind when choosing your size.
We didn’t get to carving pumpkins this year. The kids each got to pick a pumpkin at our field trip to the petting farm, and while they were quite content with this size of their pumpkins, they weren’t exactly jack-o-lantern material. I am sure we’d have had to pay a trip to the ER if we attempted to carve such small pumpkins. I kept holding out for a trip to a “real” pumpkin patch, but it just wasn’t in the cards this year.
The day before Halloween I was trying to scheme a way we could run to the grocery store and get a bigger pumpkin, as well as carve it in between our neighborhood trick or treating event at the shopping plaza and our visit to Scott’s parents and grandpa to let them see the kids in their costumes. It just wasn’t happening. Sure we could have cut the visit with the grandparents short and forced the kids to stay up past their bed times to make it work. And if the kids had really wanted to, it might have been worth it. But I was reminded of an important lesson as we enter this holiday season. You can over do it with good traditions. And while traditions are fun and important, sometimes you just gotta enjoy the moments you have instead of trying to cram more in.
So I let the jack-o-lantern go this year.
The kids weren’t asking about it so I let them just enjoy the candy and costumes and saved the pumpkins for another time.
But, the day after Halloween my son remembered. “Hey Mom, we never carved our pumpkins this year!”
Time for plan B.
I said, “I think we’ll paint out pumpkins this year.” Who cares that it is after Halloween? Pumpkins are fallish, right? So, one day this week when the kids woke up from their naps, we had a little craft time. I scrambled around for some paint and sequins and covered the table in newspaper. The only paint I had around didn’t have “washable” printed on the bottle, so please excuse our mostly naked shots as I wasn’t willing to sacrifice their clothes for this craft.
I am really glad I didn’t over pack our festivities this Halloween. It didn’t matter to the kids that we painted our pumpkins AFTER Halloween. They still had a blast. And we have this fun, new decoration to grace our home this November.
