Hard Day's Night....

Well, today was an up down kind of day. It started out great because Matt took care of the kids so that I could get a few extra minutes of sleep and then I sorted prizes for the child-parent centre's auction - so much fun, kinda like opening tons of boxes at Yule except the stuff isn't mine and I don't have to figure out where to put it. But then I had a row with Finn about his hair and that made us late, and then we had a row with the in-laws, and then we all went for dinner with the Steam Whistle crew. I think that it was so nice that Matt's staff wanted to give him a goodbye dinner to show how much they appreciated working with him. However, I had to play nice with the people who are responsible for his leaving AND chase the kids around the restaurant for 3 hours! *sigh* Hopefully the rest of my evening will be relaxing and stress-free.

As promised, here are the pictures of the kids in their Samhain costumes. Luna was a princess (again), Melia looked so cute in her Dark Faerie costume, and Finn was creature from the BBC documentary, "Future is Wild", basically a tree-swinging squid that will live 200 million years in the future. So cute, but I guess that I'm biased...and yes, that is a Jack Skellington on the front of my 2 year old, she LOVES Nightmare Before Christmas and sings the songs all day. I even made her a Jack cake for her second birthday, despite the original Totoro theme.

I did, however buy a bunch of yarn at Romni yesterday...very dangerous place. Good thing I was mainly looking downstairs in their discontinued area. I got some gorgeous Fleece Artist handpainted Country Wool for $11! I'm going to try and make a quick felted bag for the kid's silent auction at school. As well, I scored 1 ball of Sugar 'n Spice cotton ($1.50), some funky Italian Beaux yarn ($5.50) to make yet another Ruffles scarf as well as some Confetti sock yarn for Finn, black with purple (his and my fave colour). The stash groweth....