#flowertherapy might be right up there with #water #flowertherapy might be right up there with #watertherapy.  Love passing the time in secret wildflower patches. As you do. 🌸
I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon was on the way home tonight, and my friend pulled over right away so I could grab a photo. That’s when someone really knows you! It was just too beautiful to resist. 🌙
Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ C Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ 
Context: 1/ picture perfect weekend, 2/ threw together a quick meal w udon noodles, steak and broccoli, so good, 3/ the sun reflections on this painting struck me today, looked like a cross 4/ it takes all afternoon but nothing like Sunday Gravy, 5/ six months old, 6/ when he wants some serious zzzz’s, he covers his eye with his ears, the cutest, 7/ breakfast pastries at @coniglios
I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New Jersey banned the plastic ones last year. But when I spied this beauty for a buck, how could I resist? It just is so darn happy, which makes me happy. The little things aren’t so little. 💛
Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged photo, but Lola just has ZERO boundaries and Clifford is exceptionally patient. 😂
I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s so good for you), so when I saw that a local patisserie has a smoked salmon croissant available (weekends only), I added it to my list of things to seek out. I popped into @chocolatinenj early on Mother’s Day and was rewarded with this deliciousness. Layers of soft flaky croissant dough, tender smoked salmon, light whipped cream, thinly sliced red and green onion slivers and dotted with capers… it was every bit as amazing as you’d imagine it would be. If you’re local, don’t sleep on this one. 😋
Weekend photos in review, the belated edition. 1/ Weekend photos in review, the belated edition.

1/ hit up a few yard sales and snagged this beautiful pasta dish from Italy with my favorite color for a buck, 2/ and one of these printer trays came home with me too, 3/ pre Mother’s Day celebrations with 30 local moms, 4/ finished the weekend supervising furniture assembly
Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd bir Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd birthday. Unfortunately she’s not here to celebrate because she died suddenly at age 49. I think of her often … every Mother’s Day because we spent most of them together since her husband worked weekends … when I discover a new food adventure (we once did a day long donut crawl) … when I’m sharing a special time with my kids knowing that her then-11 year old is growing up without her. Before she passed, I always appreciated every day, but since then, even more so. You never know what the next day can bring, so relish in the sunshine, surprise rainstorms, making wishes over railroad tracks and all the wonderful randomness life can throw your way. Don’t waste a single second, say yes, live on the outskirts of your comfort zone, laugh often, tell people you love them, give eight second hugs, and squeeze every ounce of joy you can out of life. Do it for the people who can’t. ✨
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Celebrating Halloween {2013}

October 31, 2013 · Narrative

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The day was grey.

Dreary.

And threatened rain.

But we finally got our Halloween.

When Madeline woke up early this morning, she could not control her excitement. And it didn’t dawn on me until a little while later. She doesn’t really know a real Halloween. With Hurricane Sandy last year, and Snowtober the year before, she was two years old the last time we were able to go trick-or-treating.

So this is really the first year that she really grasped what it was all about. Or what it was meant to be.

And I would have been excited too.

Halloween parade at school. Party with their class. Trunk-or-treating earlier in the week. And capped off with trick-or-treating tonight.

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Nick went as an Emperor of Evil, and Madeline as a cheerleader. Nick ended up trick-or-treating with us for a little while, and then met up with a friend. Madeline trick-or-treated for two and a half hours. #cantstopwontstop

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The perfect day.

And they both fell asleep in about eleven minutes after we walked in the door tonight.

True story.

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Once the kids went to bed, I dumped all their candy onto the dining room table to go through it. And then I decided to sort it, curious as to what their haul had.

One package of dots
20 Twizzlers
2 Laffy Taffy
7 Jolly Rancher (I really wish people would stop giving out super-hard, small Jolly Ranchers on Halloween)
1 Clark bar
1 package of Raisinets
13 Milky Way
10 Twix
15 Starburst
3 Almond Joy
1 gobstopper
2 Sour Patch Kids
1 Milk Dud
10 lollipops
5 SweetTarts
15 Skittles
7 Tootsie Rolls
1 Airhead
2 Baby Ruth’s
6 Butterfingers
9 Three Musketeers
5 Swedish Fish
8 Peanut M&M’s
18 regular M&M’s
15 Nestle Crunch
17 Kit-Kats
2 Oreos
3 bags of pretzels
4 bags of chips
1 package of Goldfish
1 package of Nutter Butter
1 package of chocolate covered pretzels
Two Rice Krispies Treats
1 Hershey nugget
1 fruit snack
22 Whoppers
37 Snickers
8 Hershey bars
31 Reese’s
Fifty-seven cents

There were about eight full size candy bars in the stash (generous houses!), and Snickers were definitely the clear favorite amongst the choices to give out.

I put aside the Nick and Madeline’s favorites, packaged up the favorites of a few friends, put a stash together for the office, and the rest will be turned into the buy back program, who send it off to troops stationed overseas, which I love, and we’ve been doing for a few years.

One house was giving away apples, and out of our group of 11 kids, not one kid took one. Nick was seriously bummed about that later when he realized he could have used them to make apple pie.

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Tonight’s haul.

And it doesn’t include what they collected earlier in the week at a neighborhood trunk-or-treat.

Yep, I’d say Halloween 2013 was good to us this year.

And we’re thankful.

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  1. Joanne says

    November 1, 2013 at 6:30 am

    I’m glad the kids got to enjoy Halloween in FULL this year!! They deserve it!
    Joanne recently posted..Spicy Three-Bean and Corn Chili

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  2. Paula Ann says

    November 3, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    I love Halloween… always have, from childhood through adulthood. It’s just so much fun watching the excitement of the children as their bags fill up with candy. I’ll admit, since we’ve moved to this tiny town, I’m one of those people who gives out the full sized bars. It only takes one box from Sam’s, since we usually only have about 30 children, total. I’m glad Nick and Maddie had such a wonderful Halloween, after the last couple of years, they were due!

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I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New Jersey banned the plastic ones last year. But when I spied this beauty for a buck, how could I resist? It just is so darn happy, which makes me happy. The little things aren’t so little. 💛

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#flowertherapy might be right up there with #water #flowertherapy might be right up there with #watertherapy.  Love passing the time in secret wildflower patches. As you do. 🌸
I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon was on the way home tonight, and my friend pulled over right away so I could grab a photo. That’s when someone really knows you! It was just too beautiful to resist. 🌙
Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ C Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ 
Context: 1/ picture perfect weekend, 2/ threw together a quick meal w udon noodles, steak and broccoli, so good, 3/ the sun reflections on this painting struck me today, looked like a cross 4/ it takes all afternoon but nothing like Sunday Gravy, 5/ six months old, 6/ when he wants some serious zzzz’s, he covers his eye with his ears, the cutest, 7/ breakfast pastries at @coniglios
I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New Jersey banned the plastic ones last year. But when I spied this beauty for a buck, how could I resist? It just is so darn happy, which makes me happy. The little things aren’t so little. 💛
Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged photo, but Lola just has ZERO boundaries and Clifford is exceptionally patient. 😂
I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s so good for you), so when I saw that a local patisserie has a smoked salmon croissant available (weekends only), I added it to my list of things to seek out. I popped into @chocolatinenj early on Mother’s Day and was rewarded with this deliciousness. Layers of soft flaky croissant dough, tender smoked salmon, light whipped cream, thinly sliced red and green onion slivers and dotted with capers… it was every bit as amazing as you’d imagine it would be. If you’re local, don’t sleep on this one. 😋
Weekend photos in review, the belated edition. 1/ Weekend photos in review, the belated edition.

1/ hit up a few yard sales and snagged this beautiful pasta dish from Italy with my favorite color for a buck, 2/ and one of these printer trays came home with me too, 3/ pre Mother’s Day celebrations with 30 local moms, 4/ finished the weekend supervising furniture assembly
Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd bir Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd birthday. Unfortunately she’s not here to celebrate because she died suddenly at age 49. I think of her often … every Mother’s Day because we spent most of them together since her husband worked weekends … when I discover a new food adventure (we once did a day long donut crawl) … when I’m sharing a special time with my kids knowing that her then-11 year old is growing up without her. Before she passed, I always appreciated every day, but since then, even more so. You never know what the next day can bring, so relish in the sunshine, surprise rainstorms, making wishes over railroad tracks and all the wonderful randomness life can throw your way. Don’t waste a single second, say yes, live on the outskirts of your comfort zone, laugh often, tell people you love them, give eight second hugs, and squeeze every ounce of joy you can out of life. Do it for the people who can’t. ✨

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