I miss Fall.......a lot! I miss the smells in the air of people lighting their wood stoves, I miss the cool,crisp weather that always seemed to bring brilliant blue skies with it. I miss the colors of the leaves and how they contrasted with the bright blue sky. I miss apple picking with hay rides in the dark and decorating my house with hay bales, corn stalks, and pumpkins....decorating for fall when it's 90 degrees outside feels wrong.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE living in south Texas. I love that 9 months out of the year, the weather is "jeans and t-shirt" perfect. I love the culture and cool things to do...I could do without the scorpions. But every fall, I get a little a lot homesick, so I do all I can to trick my heart into thinking it's home again.
This week I am on a Fall/ Halloween snack making kick. Today the kids and I made Goblin Grins that I found at the Kraft Family and Foods website.
First we mixed brown sugar, whipped cream cheese, and vanilla in a bowl.
Then I punished the kids by making them clean the beaters with their tongues. They were very very sad about this. They begged "Please Mom, please don't make us lick the sweet and creamy fruit dip off the beaters. We promise we'll be good!" But I said "No way, you kids are rotten. What kind of mom would I be if I didn't dole out punishments like this!" Because I'm strict and mean like that!
Then we washed and quartered the apples. I cut a notch out in each piece of apple so the kids could spread the cream cheese mixture inside the apple and stick on the teeth (slivered almonds).
Then we ate. Abby is my artist and likes to do it right, cute:
Caleb is ,well, Caleb and that is what I love about him. He constantly cracks us up with the Mii's he creates on Wii, so why should his Goblin Grin be any different. Abby likes to say "That boy's not hooked up right!"
And sweet , hungry Jackson whose first word was "Eat" in English and in ASL did not surprise me when he just slapped his almonds on his apple and shoved it in his mouth:
So there it is : Creepy. Cool. Yummy. Tomorrow we are snack-a-lackin on Mummy Faced Mini Pizzas!
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