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13 things I love about Halloween
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I know that I’m a Christian, but I love Halloween anyways. I have to think of things in a different light. I found a story once about the light from a Jack-o-lantern being like the Holy Spirit shining through the darkness, so yeah its not all bad, right?!
Jack-O-Lantern
These are my favorite things about Halloween
- Carving Jack-O-Lanterns
- Roasting pumpkin seeds
- Dressing up
- Theatrical makeup
- Fake spider webs
- fake blood
- all of the spooky food!
- Trick-or-treating
- Trunk-or-treating
- Hay Rides
- CHOCOLATE!!
- Decorating Inside and Out
- Smiling, glowing, and funny faces of the kids I see
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It’s Girl Sprout Time! I’m a Brownie Leader!!
Yep I signed up to be the Brownie Leader and today was my first “meeting”. It was pretty fun, and informal. I didn’t have the leader book yet so we sat in with the Daisy Sprouts Scouts. We made cards for all of the people at the nursing home. There was a lot of tempra paint involved. Mama’s need to be investing in a lot of Spray N Wash!
So I guess this is what I should dress up like for Halloween, or maybe Dottie anyways!
What cute Halloween Cupcakes!
Head over to Party Cupcakes to check out these adorable cupcakes! Click on this cute cupcake to find even more fun Halloween cupcakes.
Halloween Pixies
This is the most adorable halloween decoration I’ve ever seen! You will have to click the link to see it, but its totally worth it!
You’re invited to a Halloween Shin Dig
For the next few weeks I’m going to be posting some random Halloweenie things, if you have something that you’d like to share just email me ( christi at polkaspotfarm dot com) or go to my contact page.
I’m a great lover of The Black Apple. I have been reading her blog for years now after coming across a little hand held mirror somewhere with one of her works of art .
Well today you can kick off your Halloween Party planning with a great print from The Black Apple. Just follow her instructions and print on card stock or picture paper, and print in a high quality resolution.
Click the image to download
Menu Plan Monday: Bloggest Loser
I’ve joined the Bloggest Loser and I’m looking for healthy recipes, and better alternatives for the ones that I usually make. I’ll be getting lowfat cheese, and other “good for you” alternatives to substitute in my recipes.
Monday: Chicken Pot Pie
Tuesday: Grilled Chicken Packets
Wednesday: Vegetable Beef Soup
Thursday: Taquitos for me, Nachos for the kiddos
Friday: Chicken Parm from Hungry Girl
Do you have any go to recipes or substitutes that you’d like to share? I hope so, because I really need them!
Help for TWLOHA
Please join this cause, its a great one! www.twloha.com
13 Simple Living Tips
1. Learn to cook
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
3. If you buy it, buy it used
4. Read instead of watching TV
5. Read to your children, or play a game instead of watching TV or playing video games
6. Grow a garden
7. Preserve your fruits and veggies
8. Have date night at home.
9. Walk or ride a bike for small trips.
10. Plan your outings for errand day.
11. Keep inventory of your stock (pantry, freezers and refrigerators)
12. Use what you have
13. Find Co-ops for baby sitting, produce, gardening, anything you can buy off the shelf
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Weight Commander and Bloggest Loser Update
I just wanted to give you a great link that I found long time ago to keep track of your weight. Weight Commander is a great little program that I’ve been tracking my weight with daily. I get up in the morning and potty then weigh myself, come straight to the computer and enter my weight. The thought behind this is to get immediate results from how I did the previous day. Michael owns Weight Commander and he will give you your own web address for your front page. The site is free for 5 days and after that he asks for a donation.
Some of the features that this great little program offers are :
- Today’s good idea
- Shopping List
- Great Snack ideas
- Michael on… (his thoughts that relate to weight loss)
- Diary
- 30 Days (Where you write a guess or goal to reach in 30 days, and Weight Commander Tracks it daily)
- Carb Counter
- Point Counter (For all of you Weight Watchers peeps)
- Calorie counter
- Panic Button (yes you read that right!)
- Birthday Tracker (It will help you will see)
I’m loving this simple little online program. I plan on using it daily to track my weight, goals and even my Birthday! Thanks this Michael!
As far as how I’m doing, I worked out yesterday for 15 minutes. This morning I’m a little sore, but not anything bad. Billy Blanks isn’t going to kill me yet! I drank 8 glasses of water, but still need to up that to 10 or more. I had nothing but water and milk to drink yesterday, but did have leftover spaghetti, brownies and PB&J. Today is a grocery trip, and I hope to bring something home that will not be quite as bad. The brownies and spaghetti are both gone, and the PB&J are put away. I’m not sure what I will eat this morning yet, but I’m starting with a bottle of water.
Kayla and Dottie getting the mail Picnik style
Picnik works for me, find more of what works on WFMW. Find more pictures on Wordless Wednesday and 5 minutes for Mom.
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