Halloween cookies

Adam and I made Halloween cookies yesterday. I rolled out sugar cookie dough and we cut the cookies. After we baked them and they cooled off, I put frosting on them and Adam put sprinkles on them. We had a great time! I see some serious Christmas baking in our future.

We're also playing with Tinkertoys today. I had a big tub of them in a closet and the boys needed something to occupy themselves with. Matt had a hard time believing that I used to play with Tinkertoys when I was his age, too. Matt is having a little trouble getting something build the way he wants - I'm going to go help him. It'll be fun playing with these things again.

Strep...

Again. Matt just finished a round of antibiotics for strep on Saturday. By Sunday evening, he was complaining of a sore throat and was running a temp. Took him to the doctor and he's got strep again (or still). He really wanted to go to school today, too. He had a homework project in which he needed to create a creature with characteristics from mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles. He spent a lot of time thinking about this creature and some of the ideas that he came up with were great. Then, he had to either make a 3-D creature or draw one and he chose to make the 3-D model. We had a lot of fun shopping for parts and making them - he even practiced his oral presentation last night. Hopefully, he'll be able to do his presentation later this week.

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. It was warm, but very windy. By the end of the day, I was tired of having pieces of hay blowing in my face. I haven't downloaded the pics off the camera yet - I'll post some after I do.

My in-laws (fil and his wife) are in town and they've offered to babysit the boys so that dh and I can go out to dinner for our anniversary. I'm so glad they offered. I tried 3 different babysitters, but no one could make it. School conferences are this week as well. I can't believe that it's been 14 years!! In some ways, it seems like yesterday while at the same time it seems like longer. We've come a long way from where we were back then. I'm so thankful I have a great dh. After seeing firsthand what bad marriages are like, I'll never think this one bad. I was around a really toxic relationship earlier this year and it really shook me to my bones. I don't know how anyone can live like that.

My mil is in the hospital again. She had a stomach bug or something and let herself get dehydrated. The interesting part of this whole thing, though, is that after not taking any of her meds for 4 days, her mental state has improved dramatically according to her sister. We've been very worried about that, since it seemed like she was getting very unresponsive in any kind of social situation (talking to doctors is included in this). Hopefully, this will shed some light on the situation for her doctors.

Bridge to Tarabithia

I had no idea that this movie was soooo sad!! Matt really wanted to watch it, so we let him and he practically sobbed after the movie was over. I guess it's not a bad thing for Matt to learn that bad things can happen, but I wish I had known about it ahead of time. It took us almost half an hour to cheer him up even a little - I didn't want him crying himself to sleep over a movie. I'm just going to have to be more careful in screening movies for him in the future. I would probably let him watch it anyway, but I think I would have warned him so he wouldn't be blindsided by it, kwim? It was never billed as anything but a fantasy movie for young audiences, so it was a surprise to me to have that kind of drama. The parts I did see hit me harder than many movies billed as dramas.