Mommathon

Don't judge a book by its cover...or maybe you should. I love the title of this book and the photograph on the cover is perfect. This book is about three women and how their lives overlap. Rachel is a professor of poetry whose mother is very ill. Ella is one of her students who also happens to work at a women's clinic and Georgia is a teenage girl who frequents the women's clinic. This isn't one of my favorite books, but I did enjoy most of the storyline. Also, it is not a happy book, but unfortunately mirrors the lives that a lot of women are leading.

Colm loves going to art class. I originally signed him up because he wants to paint at home all the time. I don't mind letting him paint, but he just won't stop. So I figured at least with this there is a starting point and an ending point to the class and he will have to stop painting because everyone is leaving. This is a great class. It's not just painting, either. Every week there is a theme that all of their activities are centered around. They also play with play-doh, build with huge foam blocks, use stamps, play dress-up, read books, sing songs...it's great. He also has a great teacher.
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It was chilly today, so we had to bundle up a little before we headed out the door. Colm was a cowboy and Liam was a railroad engineer. They had a great time collecting candy. I think Colm had the best time though because this was the first year that he really got it.


Enjoying all the yummy treats

After we rested for a little while, it was time to go to a few more Halloween parties.

Sean's work had their annual Halloween party for the kids.


Then we went to our neighborhood Halloween parade.

His class Halloween parade


Ms. Tammy helping him with his spider project


Doing the Toody Ta Ta Dance

You know how kids always mess up the Pledge of Allegiance and put words in that don't belong there, etc? Well, Liam was saying the Lord's Prayer tonight and it took everything I had to not burst out laughing. He's got it down, but he has his own version..."lead us into temptation"...He has known Hail Mary for a long time and really has that down pat...we'll need to fine tune the other however.

This book is the ramblings of a man who has led a very interesting life. First of all, he is the brother of Frank McCourt who wrote Angela's Ashes. If you have read that book or seen that movie that tells you a lot about him right there. He has survived alcoholism and cancer and has written several books. He has also appeared in several soap operas, some were bit parts and he was a main character on Ryan's Hope for a while. He has also been in several movies and he will readily admit that none of them the average person has heard of or watched.