For those of you who know me, you know I LOVE Halloween and the entire month of October. I love the smells, pumpkins, decorations, weather change, and of course my birthday. For several years now I have done the 31 days of Halloween. It seemed so easy when the kids were little. We played bowling with small pumpkins, we did yarn projects, we made a scarecrow, and so much more. Now that they are 14 and 12, the "mom ideas" are not that popular anymore. I have mourned over the fact that those sweet, innocent days are gone. Then, I realized that if I keep mourning over those days I am going to miss the ones in front of me. So....I am going to continue the 31 days, they just might look a little different. Yesterday I raced home after work and piano lessons to ground the meat and make spaghetti sauce. Macaiden had a football game at 6pm so I knew I had to be quick. The first day of Halloween was going to be spaghetti with snake breadsticks. I had a few minutes to spare so I decided to make pumpkin bread for day 2 of October. I make mine in the crock pot (best recipe ever...see below for recipe). I was so proud to have done all of that and make it to Macaiden's game on time! This morning Justin had to take Maddie to basketball practice. She had to be there at 5:50am. I was still upstairs getting ready when I looked at a text message I received from Justin. It said, "something is wrong with the pumpkin bread." I continued to get ready and began to think he was either wrong or did I leave something out?! YUP! As I began to walk down the stairs I realized I left out the baking soda! I walked in the kitchen and yelled "haha You've been tricked!" Halloween is all about trick or treats right?! Justin, knowing I had clearly messed up just went on with it. I ended up with my normal breakfast, 1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter, but I did eat it on my Halloween plate! I will be making a new batch of pumpkin bread tonight when I get home. I was also going to find another thing to make up for my mistake of day 2 of October but realized I had already fulfilled it....tricking. :) With our crazy schedules between sports, chorus, and the thousand jobs that Justin and I have... time is too short to worry about getting everything perfect. So what? I messed up! But! I am trying to learn to turn my silly mistakes (the ones that are so pointless and a waste of time getting upset over) into life lessons for my kids. It is okay! I LOVE that I messed up the pumpkin break. Don't get me wrong, I am a little upset about the money that I just wasted because I had to throw it all away, But, I was able to show my kids it is okay! I can start all over again. wannabite.com/crockpot-pumpkin-bread/ My Repurpose for the day : Not everything turns out as good as what I see on Pinterest. Remember the way I react to a situation can possibly be modeled by my own two kids.
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