by jenn_davis | personal
I recently came across an article about Halloween safety for parents and children. If interested, you can read more here. If you don’t have time to open this link of enlightenment, allow me to briefly summarize;
If your kid has a toy weapon, make sure it is a cloth version. Also, check your candy for metal.
I’m sorry, I know this is perhaps useful information for some but I can’t help but think back to when I was a kid. We carried around real BB guns and carved our own weapons from a tree branch with a pocket knife. Also, we got our candy from our grandparents and aunts and uncles, so unless one of them had it out for us, we were always relatively safe.
I guess times have changed. I no longer live in the small town I grew up in and have only managed to introduce myself to a handful of our neighbors. A small part of me finds comfort in this. I could technically be anyone I want and they wouldn’t have a clue.
Can I answer the door in a bath robe and mud mask as I hand out bags of un-popped popcorn to confused children? The answer to this is yes, I most certainly can.
Can I sit on my entry way floor as I wait for trick or treaters to knock so I can slowly crack the door open and sprinkle Reeses Pieces at their feet with an ET hand? Again….yes, I can.
And if I decide I’ve had far too rough of a day, I can always just tilt my glass eye slightly out of socket.
What are you looking at?
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”
-Michael Pritchard
by jenn_davis | fun finds, style
While searching for the perfect Halloween costume for my son, I came across this website which featured images that were created for a movie theater opening in Brazil! My eyes welted with inspiration as I marveled the pure genius and attention to detail that each costume welcomed. Consider this my personal challenge to all the parents out there:
Beat this.
If not in creativity, then in craft. Let’s make Halloween fun (and not just another excuse for teenage girls to dress provocatively)!
Here are a few resources to get you started….
Edward Scissor Hands:
You’re on your own with this one. If it was me I would be hitting up the arts and crafts store!
Avatar:
Hair, Costume
Forest Gump:
Suit
Cruella Devil:
Hair, Coat
Jack Sparrow:
Hair, Outfit
Indiana Jones:
Pants, Bag
We haven’t quite decided what Dyce will be this year, but after seeing these images I vow to step up my game! Happy Tuesday folks.
by jenn_davis | personal
He said the fact I wasn’t impressed that he was a musician made him know I was the one.
Having given out CDs to our entire class, he asked me what I thought (I later learned he gave out CDs to everyone just so I could have one). I was honest, “the first few songs sounded messed up but it got better as it went on.” Not the response he had hoped for, I left him standing in the door way of our art studio completely speechless.
I was no fool. It was going to take much more than a tall, handsome boy (with a guitar and too many layers of clothes) to swoon me.
He was relentless and I was intrigued. We had been hanging out for several weeks when I agreed to accompany him on a road trip to Raleigh and watch him perform. It was that weekend two kids in an old jeep traveling north on 85, windows down and the crisp October air filling their lungs…. fell in love.
We were in a parking lot, stretched out on the hood of his jeep with the sun beating down on our faces as we talked about the past and what we wanted for the future. He jumped up and grabbed my hand, pulled me off the hood and knelt down in front of me as he slipped a silver band off his finger and placed it on mine.
“This is my promise to you, that if you will let me, I will love you forever, and this won’t be the last ring I put on your finger.”
Today we have been married for three years and together for seven, and though I may love October for the crisp air and seasonal coffee….I love it most because each year it brings back memories of new love that continues to surprise me.
Year after year.
