Our family was supposed to go to "the real" pumpkin patch last Saturday. It is something we really look forward to. Every week at the grocery store we passed bins filled with perfectly shaped pumpkins anticipating what our pumpkins would look like when we picked them at "the patch". Well, the fires changed things. On Saturday the pumpkin patch was in the middle of an evacuated area...what to do? We decided (for FHE) to go to "the fake" pumpkin patch up the road...you know the kind...more carnival than patch, a little straw thrown on the ground for ambiance. We spent $30 in about 20 seconds and still didn't have our pumpkins. The only pumpkins left were in the $30-$50 range (with 4 kids you do the math)...again, what to do? Well, let's just go down the street to the grocery store...there are hundreds of pumpkins there...we get there... NO pumpkins! Our kids started to panic...a Halloween without jack-o-lanterns...what is this world coming too?! I promised them pumpkins and dadgum I was going to get them pumpkins! Of course Melissa was also making this promise to her children...we would find them pumpkins! The next day (Tuesday, only one day left until the big night) we went on the prowl...Melissa and I were conferencing on our cell phones and we finally found 7 pathetic...that might be too harsh...let's just say these pumpkins had been overlooked by many people (we each visited 2 different stores and each had about 5 pumpkins to choose from...slim pickins)! Once we carved them they actually looked cute...gotta love Halloween miracles.
Overall, it has been a very sticky week (class parties, trunk-or-treating, trick-or-treating) but, Harry Potter, Witch, Ladybug and Reluctant Cowboy had a great time...they'll have the cavities to prove it!
