Whew!

Today was a VERY busy day.  Double A, The Bean, The VH, Flower, Pippi, Tink, and Laughter were all here for Holidays!  Holidays is the tradition we started when DJ was 4 (she's 19 now), and try to do at least once a year, where we celebrate a bunch of holidays in one day because I'm usually not home for most of them.  So today we did:

Easter.  Each kid gets to dye 6 eggs, then we send them off on an errand and I hide the eggs (obviously it's too cold for the bunny to come do it).

 

Thanksgiving.  We eat Thanksgiving dinner, but very pared down.

We celebrate birthdays.  Each person gets a cupcake.  We've started doing only 1 candle for each, because between 7 kids and 4 adults, it would have been something like 304 candles.  11 are easier to light and blow out...

 

4th of July.  We got outside and do sparklers and smoke bombs.  There isn't always snow like this year, so this time we got to toss the smoke bombs in the snow and watch the results. 

Halloween.  We do face paint and the kids trick-or-treat around the house.

St. Patrick's Day.  We do a treasure hunt with clues to follow to find the Leprechaun's lost gold (gold wrapped chocolate).

Are you exhausted reading about it?  Because it's exhausting doing it!

 

We then all wore our matching owl pjs to the movie.  Because I am a dorky aunt who makes her nieces do stuff like that.

 

The movie was Moana, and it was a lot of fun.

Finally, today is Shoetopia's 4th blogiversary!  I think this shoe is hilarious and adorable.

Everyone is supposed to be spending the night, but sadly Pippi had a horrible headache all day and decided she wanted to go home after the movie, and Tink decided to go with her.  The VH has family stuff tomorrow so she couldn't say over.  I still have 4 kiddos sleeping over, though.

Speaking of kiddos, all of my nieces are amazing, but can I take a minute to brag on Double A and The Bean?  They still love to do Holidays, but they are also great with helping with the younger kids.  They're great with kids in general, and love hanging out with their cousins.  They are patient and kind and loving, and it makes my heart happy to watch them.  But now my happy heart and I are going to bed.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Some of us are in the spirit today:

Tallulah and I match!

I love this picture, from the sweater to the pose to the handsome dog.

Pedro McTate.

And, because it's a shoe blog, a couple of Halloween shoes (since I've already posted a bunch):

These just have a little bit of everything!

I like all of these, but as a set I really like them.

Happy Halloween!  Be safe out there.

A-Z

You're all very smart, so you've probably noticed that this most recent round of posts has been an acrostic:

A for Autumn
B for Babies
C for Chalupa
D for Duckies
E for Emanuel
F for Foxes
G for Ghosts
H for Hedgehogs
I for Introvert
J for Jello
K for Kicks
L for Liqueur
M for Meckler
N for Nice
O forOwls
P for Pumpkins
Q for Quirky
R for Reptiles
S for Skeletons
T for Tired
U for Underwear
V for Vampires
W for Werewolves
X for Xylophones
Y for Yellow

I hadn't been feeling very inspired so I needed some kind of direction, and this helped.  It's kind of silly, I know, but hey, it got me posting, and it gave me some direction to post something (mostly) other than depressing icky crap.

To finish off the acrostic, today's post will be Z for Zazzle Halloween shoes:

I've been posting a lot of Halloween this month, so I'm not entirely sure what I'll post tomorrow when it's actually Halloween, but I'll come up with something.  Probably.

Werewolves

Today is not a good day.  On the plus side, it's raining!  Yay!  On the not plus side, I'm being blamed for something that's only partially my fault.  So I'm pissy about the not my fault part, and horribly guilty and depressed for the part that is.  Today's Halloween-themed shoes are werewolves because they are whimsical enough to cheer me up and they also match the growly, grumpy, transformative (ie wishy washy) part of me.

See? These are funny.  They make me smile.

These also make me smile because someone made DIY werewolf shoes.

These are OK, nothing that great really, until...

...you see the bottoms.  They make werewolf footprints!  I would wear them just for that.

These came in this style, in mules, boots, booties, flipflops, and possibly tennis shoes, and they are all a world of no.  I really like my Halloween to more whimsical and less graphic.

Like this.  I would wear these right now and my feet would be snuggly and happy.

Hopefully I will also be snuggly and happy at some point during the day.  Grrr...stupid guilt.

Vampires

I'm moving away from socks today, but not away from Halloween.  Tis the season, after all.  Today I did a search for vampire shoes, which when I think of it is just one more weird thing to type into Google.  My browsing history is full of weird shoe searches.  But we all know I make my own fun, and here are some of the results from that search:

This was one of the first pictures that came up, and for once I don't think the hubby needs any of these.  Are they supposed to be shoes that a vampire would wear?  Shoes that a vampire DID wear and these are the resulting blood spatters?  I don't know, but I'm going with no on these. 

These are a definite yes because how goofy and cute are they?  The make me smile.

These do not.  The shoes themselves are just plain ugly.  I could deal with the graphic graphics (heehee), but I can't forgive those ugly-@$$ shoes.

Much better.

Vampire bats count, right?  It's my blog, so I say they do.

Are you tired of the Halloween theme?  Because I'm not!  I need themes in my life to keep me on track and give me ideas for posting.  You'll just have to tune back in once November hits for something different.

Under Where?

Yesterday as I was looking at Halloween Fuzzy Socks I came across this:

They're cute, and they're Halloween, but they're aren't fuzzy socks, nor do I think I need holiday-themed underpants.  Nor do we need an entire post about underwear.  But, I will continue on with the Socktober theme because A.) I like socks and B.) socks technically go under clothes so it's kind of like doing an underwear post.  Yes.  I know I need therapy.  Shut up and look at socks.

I can't help it, I just love themed socks.

Especially striped themed socks!

I like my socks a little taller on my calf (although these might be kids' socks), but I do appreciate the variety in this set.

 

I really like this set.

And this set is just swell.  I have nothing bad to say about it.  I've probably been lulled into a sock stupor at this point, though, so don't take my word for it.

Tiiiiiiired

My patootie is dragging today.  I have no idea why, really, but dang am I tired. Part of it is the weather which is gray and gloomy but not yet raining.  I hope it rains. So I thought I'd continue with yesterday's original inspiration of Socktober, but this time go with Halloween fuzzy socks, because I would just like to curl up in some comfy clothes and fuzzy, appropriately-themed socks and read/sleep for the rest of the day.  I give them to you without comment as I'm too tired to come up with anything, except, "oooh, cute and fuzzy."

I must get back to work now and try not to fall asleep at my desk.

Halloween Kicks

Totally random post today involving me typing phrase "Halloween Kicks" into the image search:

Cute!  I like them all.  Could have used the middle pair for the ghost post (heehee...rhymes).

Shoe is kind of boring, but it's a cool picture.

I'm not 100% sure what is going here...but they're orange?  Which is Halloween-y?

These are hilarious.  And look! Candy corn evil eyes!

You know Zazzle was going to be in this mix. 

There you go.  Your random, Saturday post.