I have such good intentions. I have grand ideas of wonderful crafts I'll make with the kids, fancy desserts we'll make, costumes I'll sew for them...and then, I put my ideas into action and they never quite turn out like I'd envisioned. I scoured websites for fun fall crafts to do with Jake and even bought a few supplies, but I've yet to make the scary pipe cleaner spiders I found or paper mache pumpkins I'd dreamed of.
Last weekend we did make the Haunted Gingerbread House I won at bunco and Jake had a wonderful time with the process. In the end, we were both covered in purple frosting and the house looked nothing like the picture on the box, but we had FUN. He frosted the house himself and put the candy on top. I asked him if he wanted to eat any of it, but he was leery of that...After you see the end result, you'll understand why!
Yesterday I kept my friend Claudia's kids, Jackson and Lillie Beth so she could go to a funeral. Jackson and Jake are friends and had a great time playing cars and trains together. Lillie Beth helped me bake cupcakes and she, Grace, and I watched the Hannah Montana movie together. When the boys woke up from their naps, I let all the kids frost the cupcakes to look like pumpkins. I have a cupcake cookbook that I found the idea in...you use orange frosting, orange sprinkles, and green twizzlers for the stems. I couldn't find green twizzlers and thought green gummy worms would be just as good. WELL, they didn't look like the pictures, but once again the kids had FUN!
Lillie Beth mixing up the cupcakes...she's so adorable! I can't wait until Grace is old enough to bake with me too :)
The "pumpkin"
Jake liked the end result!
I'm pretty sure the lesson I've learned this month is that I don't have to be Martha Stewart and make perfect cupcakes or cookie houses. I can be Amy who is definitely not a perfectionist, and my kids will still have a great time!
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