Lasagna Night

I had some good compliments on it tonight. I did in fact take the two casseroles of lasagna to Raven's tonight to feed the gamers. One was completely gone and the second one was cut into. I left the second one there for Raven and her family and made sure I brought back the large white casserole dish for Hubby. He wants to use it for making Pasticho for Sunday night for Smiles birthday family supper. Which should be a fun night. As long as Smiles calms down her announcement that her birthday party should be on Tuesday which is her actual birthday instead of Sunday.

All this week the kids have been...off is the best way to describe it, I suppose. After school we have noticed that kids have all been more physically aggressive or just throwing tantrums. All the moms I have been talking to this week haven't been able to figure it out. Tonight I was talking to Cosmic and he suggested that he noticed his kids have been having trouble sleeping due to the changing light patterns. You know Fall and the coming darkness. Which may be a reason for the kids being so out of sorts this week. Anyways I just hope Smiles gets more excited for Sunday. I think she will especially if the party is about to start.

I am very thankful that Auntie Ski said she would be willing to help out for that party. It is only scheduled for an hour but still it's going be ten 5 to 7 year olds in a small house (if the weather is bad - otherwise I plan on doing the games outside). Still I plan on doing the cake last just so I am sending sugar happy kids home at that time. We'll see if my plans survive the actuality of ten 5 to 7 year olds.

Other than that Smiles has been awfully cute lately. Today as I was chopping up vegetables for the psuedo Spanish rice concoction for my family's supper she asked if she could have some of the broccoli. Then she grabbed the strawberries (from Grandma's garden) and took one out. Poured some of the strawberry juice into the bowl and got the last banana. That's when I found out she was making a fruit salad. Um yeah. Later when the spaghetti squash was cooked she insisted that some of it went in as well. Oh, don't forget the butter and cheese. Silly me I promised her I would taste it. I wonder if she would notice if I threw it out tonight while she sleeps. Lately her memory has been very good so yeah I think I just might have to suffer a bite. Haha. Thankfully she used the line that if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it. Somedays I like it when they parrot back what you have told them. That just may save me tomorrow. Haha.

The other thing of note from today was that we made cutouts of construction paper of Halloween things for the window today. I made a large witch with green hair and a couple of pumpkins. Bear made a dragon and Smiles made a plethora of vampires (pink), bats and a pumpkin. It was very cute. Other than the real pumpkin we are going to carve that's all we are going to do for Halloween decorations. I am more into having permanent Christmas decorations than Halloween ones. Oh though Smiles did draw on the tiny pumpkin that she got from her field trip to the farm last week. We had it out the last few nights and this morning she touched it and found it was cold. She suggested a blanket for it but I thought it would be better to just bring it in. It is now sitting in the bottom of the bay window. All in all I am looking forward to the next few months being over and done with. I may love the holiday season but this year it might be too much work for me. Sigh. I am sure I'll survive somehow.