Martha Stewart Jrs I, II & III

For those of you that know our boys, well, they typically leave little doubt that they are in fact, BOYS. They are most often dirty, loud, hungry, outside and holding or using some dangerous object (ladders, screwdrivers, hammers, mallets, scissors to name just a few. ) Now, work with me here, use your imagination and add TAPE, SCISSORS, GLUE, CONSTRUCTION PAPER, PAINT, CRAYONS, GLITTER, BEADS. Oh yes, since Friday we have collectively used every single one of the items listed above. In most abundance? Tape.

The oldest (we'll call him G) picked up a Halloween craft book at his school library last week. I was thrilled! What fun to add to our already festive mood. So, Middle H and Little J and I headed to "stinky" Michael's on Friday to pick up the required items to some of the projects they had chosen to create. By the time we got home Middle H was chomping at the bit to get started on his brown bag witch. I tried to hold him off until Big G came home from school, because oh, did he need a nap, but there were tears and screeches and pleads, PLEADS to get started on the project. Little did I know, this was NOTHING compared to the passion in which big G would create witches, bats, haunted houses, ghosts and everything funny/cute and dare I say scary, he could. Middle H started off with one brown bag headed witch. It was. . . funny looking to say the least, but he is oh-so proud of his witch.

When Big G got home, they cut. They taped. They painted. They pulled yarn. They glued yarn. They taped some more. They added glitter. Tape? Tape you ask? Oh, well, not only do we secure everything together with tape, we secure it to our painted walls and windows with loads and loads and more LOADS of scotch tape. So, my friends, our home is OFFICIALLY decorated for Halloween. We have spider webs, ghosts hanging outside in trees, witches and bats hung and strung and taped everywhere. Is it weird that I actually find this decorating just a tad more fun than Christmas decor? Maybe it's all that wrapping that we DO NOT have to do for Halloween. Just cleaning up bits of yarn, black paper, brown bags, glitter and of course, tape scraps.

One might wonder though, after all this, why we all ate our Friday dinner together wearing "diaper hats?"

Points to ponder about this wacky family out in the 'burbs.