Tuesday Things.
1. My favorite pumpkin carving tip: before you stick a candle instead your pumpkin, sprinkle the whole inside with cinnamon, especially the top. It helps to use a vanilla candle too! My mom always did this when we were kids. It’s such a nostalgic scent. And smells great for trick or treaters.
2. Ultimate chocolate cupcakes with cloud frosting. OMG.
3. Emilia is obsessed with getting “blankets” for her stuffed animals, except her blankets are my kitchen towels. She refuses to use an actual blanket, she only wants to use a kitchen towel! She even steals them when I’m using one. It’s kind of hilarious. And… not always clean? But she always manages to sneak one!
4. Christmas music is already on the radio aaaaand I sort of don’t hate it. We might have listened to some of it already. Accidentally on purpose.
5. Why achieving a goal is the worst thing to happen sometimes. Interesting!
6. TV things!! Okay so oh my gosh, who has watched Modern Love?! I started it on Friday morning right before I had to go speak at a conference and I ended up bawling my eyes out! Each episode got better than the last, though I unfortunately didn’t love the Tina Fey one? The Dev Petal episode was my fave! Also, The Affair! I actually loved the episode on Sunday. The snake thing was a little much but I liked it. How are they going to wrap it up? Still an unnecessary season.
7. Are you dressing up for Halloween?! Even though I enjoy all holidays a million times more now that I have kids, I’ll still never get over it: I don’t like Halloween. As I’ve mentioned a billion times, I was Jem for five or six years in a row as a kid, so can I just be that on Thursday too?
8. My kids have discovered bubble wrap and they are obsessed. If it comes in any package, Max gets ridiculously excited and I totally remember that. I always wanted to pop every bubble and my mom wouldn’t let me.
9. How to start a conversation. Well, this is helpful.
18 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
I’m so with you on Halloween!! As a kid with anxiety I HATED going up to people’s houses and asking for candy and was always just embarrassed to be in costume. More often than not I hit up the requisite houses (neighbors, grandma) and then scooted back home to hand out candy with my dad. Never a fan of the costume party in college or my early 20s and even now with two kiddos this is my very LEAST favorite holiday to celebrate with them. costume prep is so stressful!
omg my two year old steals kitchen towels for her stuffed animals too!
Those cupcakes!!!! What a dream.
As for Halloween – I say GO FOR IT if you want! I LOVED Jem growing up but totally get the frustration with prepping a costume as an adult. We never “planned” Halloween growing up – my mom kept a big costume box on hand, and all of my cousins would come over and we would mix pieces and parts and had a blast. None of us made any sense but we had the best time. Our neighborhood loves trick or treating, so these days it’s really fun to be on the “other” side of the door as an adult!
Modern Love!!! I SOBBED over the doorman one. Soooo good!
Love the obsession with the kitchen towels and blankets! I watched modern love in the Dev Patel episode gutted me – I sobbed right before bed on a school night. I am a teacher so I end up dressing up every year.
My daughter does the same exact thing with the kitchen towels! She puts Elmo and Mickey “night night” in the middle of my kitchen floor! I now never have any kitchen towels around and they are hidden in her play room.
Actually I liked Halloween when I was a kid, I have a lot of great memories then.
Now I really don’t care for it…….whoever heard of decorating a Halloween tree?????
I’m still finding hand towel/blankets and facecloth/blankets in old boxes of toys. (my girls are 13 & 19 now)
Enjoy Emilia’s imagination!
I just wanted to tell you that I made two of your apple cider donut cakes for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding! They turned out so well and were so perfect for a fall dessert! Everyone loved them!
Thank you for sharing that Cut article! I needed some of those tips for the new job I started. I hate Halloween too! It’s my birthday. Growing up, my family and friends didn’t really celebrate for religious reasons. And since it’s my birthday I never felt like I was missing out. I have no desire to dress up either and have only done it once my entire Adult life. If people press me to participate in something, I always pull the bday card. Haha. But I did love when my kids were little and wanted to dress up in cute costumes and trick or treat. I miss those days.
I used to save any “large bubble” bubble wrap to take into my kindergarten classroom> On occasion, I would even purchase some at the UPS store. The kids LOVED walking on the bubbles to pop them. Even better was when they did it with their shoes off…fun little balance activity for more than a few. Smaller bubble wrap was great for kids with delays/weaknesses in the fine motor area. Popping those little bubbles was a fun challenge.
Have a great Halloween!
I am not a Halloween fan either! I love the little kids’ costumes but I’m not into the candy-obsessed, scary, etc. I haven’t watched Modern Love but I’ve also heard that episode is the least favorite.
HAH, my two year old daughter does the same thing as Emilia! All the kitchen towel blankets for her babies and stuffed toys. As long as she’s okay with her toys smelling like onions, go for it! ;)
For Halloween, we’re just dressing her up in her Spider-Man pyjamas, easy and comfortable. I don’t imagine she’d be into elaborate costumes for a couple years when she understands what Halloween is.
We started watching The Man in the High Castle. Not sure if you’ve mentioned watching it? It’s a cook concept and quite intriguing.
My daughter, who is almost 2, also wraps up her stuffed animals, but she will only use a very specific red microfiber dust rag. And then sometimes she’ll dust the floor with it, lol. :D
I loooove dressing my 4 year old & 1 year old up but I don’t dress up. I have a Hocus Pocus graphic tee- to be festive at work, but really it is to allow me to wear jeans once a year to work. I love the Cut article with “what keeps you busy”. It avoids the assumption everyone wants to talk about work or that everyone has kids. I like the idea that the person can decide what to offer to the convo.
i love halloween, but i now have a teen so it’s changed the game entirely for us . that being said we now go out to local haunted houses and watch scary movies together so that’s fun. We aren’t into anything overly scary or gory though.. when i say ‘scary’ i mean very moderate. ( I have awesome memories of growing up in a neighborhood that went all out and we would be out for hours with all of our friends, stopping for bon fires, hot chocolate/cider, mini ‘haunted houses/graveyards’ in people’s yards/garages so I think that it carried into my adult love of the holiday and trying to provide the same for my kiddo. the adults and kids were all out enjoying it and we’ve done the same)
The Affair. really liked this week, other than the rattlesnake which i felt was a ‘jump the shark’ moment in an season that already was unnecessary. However, i’m still curious to see where they’re going with all this outside of the ‘butterfly effect’ of a choice made 10 years ago and here’s how it’s played out for everyone (well into the future)
I LOVE that Emilia steals ‘blankets’ OMG. that’s the best!
Okay the snake part was so dumb – she had boots and pants and no bare skin. I’m no expert but I don’t think a snake can bite through all that. Whatever. Excited though for the end, thinking Noah will want to get back together, not sure if Helen will “bite” haha.
So speaking of bubble wrap- My favorite thing as a kid was on New Years Eve, my parents would buy a huge roll of bubble wrap from the container store and cover the basement floor with it. At midnight, they would let me and my cousins in the basement and we would jump on it all. It was SO much fun.