Mommathon

We have all heard of a baby boom...well today there was a baby kaboom. I had four people tell me they were preganant today...the neighbor behind me, the neighbor down the street, Sean's cousin and then the gal I teach Sunday school with. Yowsers! That's a lot of babies!

Colm being a scary pumpkin.


Liam investigating his pumpkin with his magnifying glass.

While I was carving the pumpkins, my children were having an Easter egg hunt...don't ask. They decided that the pumpkins were gross so they went off on their own adventures.

Some friends and I went to Let's Dish last weekend and I am definitely going back again and again. It is one of those places where you make your meals there and then freeze them until you are ready to use them. First of all, all of the ingredients were high quality. The staff won't let you lift a finger. Fresh herbs. You don't have to prep anything...everything is already cut up and ready to go. Yummy choices...butternut squash ravioli, brucshetta chicken, porkchops with apples and honey dijon dressing. Huge portions...a made pecan-crusted salmon and the salmon was literally over 18 inches long. I had them cut it in half. Sean and I ate half of it tonight and we have leftovers for lunch tomorrow. I made the porkchops and it came with 6 porkchops. It says on their website that each meal feeds 6 people. So, I signed up for 4 meals and with my friend's MOPS discount it was less than $75. That's a pretty good deal....a little over $6/meal. And then...the best part...when we were done we sat around and drank coffee and tea and they brought out a huge plate full of their dessert bars for us to nibble on while we chatted. Wasn't that nice?

We made Halloween cookies today shaped like owls, pumpkins, bats and witches. Then we slathered on some orange icing and threw on some pumpkin and bat-shaped sprinkles. Liam stayed home from school today with a cough, so I cooked with both of my children at the same time...it went pretty well.

...eat them! Colm loves lemons. He has figured out where they are at the grocery store so we have to buy one every week. He likes to have them cut up and then he walks around the house sucking on them. If we go out to eat and we get lemon in our tea or water, Colm will fish the lemon out before you have a chance to help him. (We are trying to get used to having a little hand submerged in our beverages.)

Go to www.breastmilkproject.org to find out how you can donate your breastmilk to children who need it. Pass this info on to everyone you know who may be able to help.

...a three-year old picks up a crayon and says, "This is red, just like my dad's BMW." A little girl in my Sunday school class said that while we were coloring today. Too funny!