Making Cupcakes for Tooter

O.K. I started this morning making cupcakes. I wanted to decorate them like Vampires. The directions seemed to be really easy. I also made Witches in a Ditch and Ghosts. Now the ghosts did pretty good....they were just pretzels dipped in white chocolate with mini chocolates for eyes. The witches boots got a little more tricky....they were made from Tootsy Rolls on straws turned upside down in the cupcake. The boots drooped somewhat. Then we got really creative and tried to draw a vampire face on the cupcake. As you can seen...we need more practice. They sort of look like an Elvis needing braces. However, me and my sisters had a laughing good time making them....so it was worth it. Tooter is taking them to school tomorrow...so we will see what the major critics have to say.

Halloween or Fall Festival

When I was growing up I looked forward to Halloween so I could play dress up, go trick or treating, eat candy and go to my school Halloween Carnival. I remember the Scarry House at my elementary school where the scarriest part of the room was a "room mother" dressed in a witch's costume would pat you on the butt as you walked by. Terrifying, even though my mother was waiting and watching right outside the door. Another room was the Fishing Room where you threw your fishing like over a little wall and the "room mother" (again) put a prize on your hook, gave it a jerk and you hauled your "digs" back over the wall. What a thrill. Really!! For a 6-8 year old it really was.

Was I worried or actually scared of Halloween? Did I worry about razor blades in my candy? Did I think I was celebrating the Devil's Holiday.????? NO Never thought about those things until my children started the Halloween scene. Then the only thing I worried about was tainted candy....so we did the trick or treat thing at people's houses that we knew. I was even the "room mother" several times and played the wicked witch. I never gave a thought to Halloween being a "Devil's Holiday"...not until all the church folks went nuts and started calling attention to that idea. As a matter of fact the church scared the crap out of my youngest son talking about the evilness of Halloween. I never considered the fact that Halloween was evil. All we did was dress up and collect candy.

I tell you what is nuts is all this "going to hell" stuff. Having people go through the Sunday school rooms and acting out what a horrible life after death experience you will have if you don't get your act together. Sure makes me want to run to my nearest church and join up!!

Cooking With Two Moon's

Adam and Chip (Joey) have been cooking up some fine dishes for the past several weeks and having me and Paul down to eat. These two brothers love to cook...got that from their grandmother....not me. So tonight we had Shrimp and Grits. Fantastic!!!! Chip was on his own ...Adam had to work late and didn't get there until time for the taste test. I went on down and sat in the den and watched HGTV while he was cooking....he needed to be alone he said 'cause he was making it up as he went. It turned out great. We cleaned the pot.

Halloween Pumpkins

Tonight I went by Tooter's and he and his mama were getting ready to carve a pumpkin. The insides of a pumpkin stink to me. Just does. But after she got all the seeds and slimy, stringy, yucky insides out of the pumpkin, it was time to make the carving. Silly me....I thought we were going to do eyes, nose and a mouth with snag teeth. Tooter opted to carve GraveDigger, which is one of the many popular Monster Trucks kids are playing with these days. So we drew the outline of GraveDigger on the pumpkin and Tooter took his little carving saw and carved out a truck. You can actually tell it is a truck with a little flag on the back end. We had a ceremony of putting the candle inside and taking it outside in the dark and pretending to be scared. Tooter was proud of it. It was a fun time. BOO!

My Molly

Molly is my sweet angel Yorkie. She is about 5 years old and she takes a LOT of attention. She has me and Paul trained very well. She always has her sweet little bow in her hair and her feet hardly ever touch dirt. She does not like to get in the grass or step on anything dirty. UNLESS she is after a squirrel, rat, or bird. I don't understand it. As you can see here she is in hot pursuit of "something" that has dug into the ground. She dug until half of her little body was down in the hole. She had dirt smudges all over her nose and on her toe nails. I had to bathe her, trim her nails, brush her teeth and repaint her toenails (she prefers pink polish). She was so exhausted after that little adventure, she passed out asleep and slept all afternoon. I guess even the most prissy can have a dirty day.