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Quick, quick, QUICK! Update!
This week has been a whirlwind but I like being busy so that’s good.
First of all I want to tell everyone thank you for the book tour response! You guys make me feel like I can actually do this. My publisher and I are still working out the schedule for the virtual tour so if you haven’t heard from me it doesn’t mean I’m blowing you off, it just means I’m behind in emailing (like usual. Arg).
I’m off to face paint at Bug’s fall carnival! (Like my kit? I’m such a pro now, with one party under my belt. Ha ha) The cake at the top is my contribution to the cake walk. I love being a mom of a kindergartener. School events are so much fun. I wish I could do it for five years in a row and skip the teenage years.
Speaking of, have you seen Bug in her Halloween costume? I feel like I’m looking into the future and it makes my heart hurt. Stop growing up, BUG! Stopit!!
Bug’s school pictures came in. She looks so much like Toby! That jaw! And me. That round chin, poor kid. I wish I could find that old post where I amalgamated our faces to see what she would look like before she was born. Found it! Thank you Dana! I think they came true.
We went to a Strawberry Shortcake event yesterday to promote the new Cherry Jam character that is Strawberry Shortcake’s new best friend. I’ll have to post more about that later on my review blog because they hooked me up with a bunch of swag I need to give away. Videos anyone? Stay tuned.
And lastly, don’t miss my Dia de Los Muertos craft on Alpha+Mom. It’s so easy and quick. Even the black-thumb crafters could do it!
Now I’m making like a tree and leaving! Swoosh! That’s me gone.
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Rainy Day Pumpkin Patch
I went on a field trip with Bug’s class today to the pumpkin patch. It was really fun outside of the five thousand times I stuck my foot in my mouth with the other parents. I don’t know what my problem was. Nothing too terribly serious but I did wish I would just not ever talk again.
Thankfully, Bug is still young enough not to be embarrassed by me. That time clock is ticking though.
She loved feeding the goats. They were so cute. Until a big one put his front legs up on Bug and knocked her over. That wasn’t so cute.
Baaaaaah nanny nanny.
They had some pretty great pumpkins. Of course we didn’t make it out of there without buying two. We are having a fall party this coming Monday after all. We have to decorate!
I think my favorite part was the corn maze. After waffling quite a bit, Bug decided to stay with me instead of riding the bus back to school so we got to stay and do a few more things that her class didn’t. Like the corn maze. I have to admit I’ve been in a bit of a funk (book tour jitters? gloomy weather? pms? probably all of the above) and it was nice to just spend time with my girl.
I don’t think any other kid is as patient as she is. So many times I get frustrated with her because she won’t keep up with me but the flip-side of that slowness is that she is perfectly content to walk a corn maze with me for 45 minutes. Any other kid would be whining and complaining of boredom. Not Bug. We walked and walked and walked. We did the whole thing twice and then left, perfectly content that we had seen everything there was to see.
