Mommathon

Well, I finished it. This was the book I lost and was determined to finish even though it had words in it that no one, and I mean no one, uses on a daily basis. Seriously. I have a librarian friend who has also read this book because she is a librarian and she has to and she wasn't a big fan of this book either. She did say, however, that this author has written another book that is very good...maybe I'll try that one.

It was a beautiful day for the pumpkin patch!




Liam and some of his classmates riding on the wagon to go get their pumpkins.




King Colm...king of the haybales!



The perfect pumpkin

Have you ever lost something and nearly drove yourself crazy trying to find it? That happened to me last night. I lost a library book I was in the middle of reading. I remembered reading it while I was waiting in line to pick Liam up from school and then I thought I remembered reading a little bit of it while I was waiting for Liam to have his violin lesson. I looked EVERYWHERE! I looked in Liam's violin bag at least 10 times, I looked in his school bag, I looked in our Sunday School bag, I looked in the car numerous times, I looked all over the house...nothing. So today we drove all the way to the violin shop where Liam has lessons, which is not close I might add, and they did not have it. Then I called church because we had gone there briefly after preschool yesterday to prepare for Sunday school, they didn't have it. I was going to call Liam's school today to see if it somehow fell out of the car and I didn't see it, but they were gone on a field trip. What is so funny about me losing this book is that I have thought about not finishing it several times. This book is like a book that you would read for an honors English class in college. It is not an easy read. I am not sure where I found out about it, but since it is that kind of book it has won a gazillion awards and I guess I should somehow feel smarter since I have read it. But now that it is lost I am frantic. I must finish it...I can't even imagine not finishing...I MUST finish it!!! So tonight, I had an epiphany. Liam's violin bag has a little pocket on the side that I had failed to look in previously and guess what, VOILA, there it was with the wrapper I had stuck in it to save my place. As soon as I saw the wrapper, I remembered exactly what had happened. When we were at Liam's violin lesson, I only had about two minutes to read and I didn't have a bookmark, so I fished around in his violin bag and found an old wrapper to use as a book mark. Now my book is sitting on the desk beside my computer, but I can't read it right now because Project Runway is on.

This is a tree in our backyard. It was our first sign that fall is really here.

Colm and I made pumpkin biscuits today while Liam was at school. I love cooking with Colm, but I must say it is an exercise in damage control, that is why there are no pictures of us actually cooking. I can't step away to get the camera for fear of what would happen. You can see by looking at his shirt that he got flour everywhere and he will not wear an apron. By the way, the dog LOVES it when Colm cooks. Not only does he get to lick the floor clean, he gets to lick Colm clean, too.

Every book I have ever read of Jodi Picoult's is a pageturner, this one is no different. I also like that even though I have read several of her books, they are all about different topics. This one is about a woman who marries a man who is not the kind of person she thinks he is. You will want to keep reading to find out what happens next and to find out how their relationship will turn out in the end.

I don't know why I find this website so interesting, but a friend of mine has a link to it on her blog.

www.whatsthatbug.com

It has pictures of all kinds of different types of insects. You can write them and ask them questions about insects or if you have a bug in your house, garden, etc. and you don't know what it is you can take a picture of it, send it to them and they will tell you what it is.

The boys are going to love this when I show it to them in the morning.