Pumpkin Carving 101


Step 1--roll pumpkin across lawn to pumpkin carving area.




Step 2--celebrate getting the pumpkin across the lawn!




Step 3--Get a knife.




Step 4--tops off, guts out, 'accidentally' fling guts on your neighbor after 'sneezing'. Laugh. Laugh hard! Fling more.




**practical insert**
You can also use the pumpkin "guts" for a home-spa beauty treatment!






Step 5--carve personality into the pumpkin...









Happy Halloween!!

this weekend i...


cried for time.
wept, and celebrated with mothers.
longed for a community of 'me's'.
wondered if i was depressed.
wished the rain would stop, and keep falling all the same.

thought about a boy at the kids' school who's father died unexpectedly.
thought about girls changing before my eyes into young ladies.
thought about a five year old who died from swine flu.
thought about how vulnerable it is to be a mother, if i choose to be vulnerable to love.

thought about creating.

created a gift.
created time.
created thoughts and let poetry swirl in my head.
painted with pastels, until i knew to stop...

acknowledged that i was depressed, and went for my remedy.
played with my children, laughed with my baby.

am choosing to love, as much as possible--
and letting God make the changes...

it is autumn, after all.




so, i will fall into Him for now.

Hilarious. I have to do this one day.

HELLOOOO!

Ok, well, I, um, officially "STINK" at blogging regularly...

and strangely, I am ok with it! :P

SOOOOOO. A deal!! I have made a deal to make some racket for a friend-of-a-friend's jewelry shop--which I checked out and loved--and am happy to announce is in alignment with our 'handmade Christmas' gift-giving, which we are striving for more and more each year! So, ladies, please head over to Shelane's Etsy Shop and check out her handwork!!

AND...THANK YOU to Natalie...one of the shiniest, craftiest, funniest people I know for drawing my name outta the pencil holder!! If you are NOT reading her blog, you should be.

I feel like the luckiest pea in the pod today. :)

More later! Gotta get Mr. Snots in he car and wrangle up some kids from school.

Love, Kelly