With that said, are you ready for Halloween!?!? We're just one day away!!! Where on Earth did the month of October go?!?! I suppose I get confused when we're having 100 degree weather -- I feel like it's not fall until it's freezing and the leaves are falling. That's unfortunately not something we get to experience here in Southern California, though. Well, the leaves fall, but the heat stays. The Midwest girl in me gets rather sad about that, but I know I should be thankful. I'm sure if I was back in Indy where it's almost cold enough to SNOW, I'd be ready to get back on a plane for CA, ha. It definitely plays games with my emotions though -- I feel like having four seasons helps you get excited about the upcoming holidays. Maybe that's just me?

I catch myself getting worse and worse about being prepared for upcoming holidays -- at least in the craft department. For me, it's definitely easier to stay on top of things with holiday-themed field trips than with crafts. Give me a pumpkin patch or trunk-or-treat and we're all over it. Hand me a craft to do with the boys and it apparently collects dust. For the past year, it's been as follows: a month or two ahead of time, I think of all these great ideas of crafts we can do to celebrate...then before I know it, the holiday is over and we never did any of it. Last year, I bought several fun Halloween crafts at Michael's that I had planned to do with Sam (our now 6 year old). As usual, time got away from us and before we knew it, it was November. Oops! No worries, I thought. I'll just save them for next year. Yeahhhhh...we're one day away from Halloween and have we done any of them? One...just one -- and we didn't even finish it! I think I can officially say that while I have good intentions, if I want crafts done, I might need to resource them out to someone else, ha. They're always the last thing on the agenda and we never get to them. Maybe next year? Here's hoping!




Sam loved it! In fact, he loves doing perler bead crafts anytime of year, ha. I think we may doing another Halloween-themed one later this afternoon -- assuming we get done with school before we have to head to hockey practice!

I also really like the mosaic sticker crafts -- they're great for working on their fine motor skills. I had found some fun Halloween-themed ones last year for super cheap and finally brought them out this fall. In fact, the mosaic sticker craft is actually the one and only craft we've brought out for Halloween. Sam's about halfway done with it. He even shared it with Caleb (who's 3) and they've both enjoyed it. While looking for an example of this craft just now, I ran across a dinosaur-themed kit. I think my 3 year old would be all over this! Perhaps this will end up being a Christmas present?