On Saturday, I should have spent the day cleaning the house....it's sheer chaos around here today...the laundry for the week isn't done...Abigial has created a complete disaster in the living room and both bedrooms.  On Saturday, I could have spent the day working on a coding project with an impending deadline.  Today, I am stressed about it, although not as much as I thought I would be, since, knock on wood, the project it coming together very smoothly.  I should have and could have done a lot of things, but I didn't.   What I did do, instead, was hang out and play with my girls.  And we had a much better day than any we've had in several weeks.  When will I ever learn that if I actually spend my days engaged with the girls that they listen better and behave better and tend to not destroy things?  I can't answer that question, because today is back to the insanity that is our life.  But, at least we have Saturday

I did combine a little bit of work with our play.  I had a photo session scheduled for this morning (that we had to reschedule because of rain) at the fort.  I needed to check out how my external flash did with the light, since I've never used it inside of the fort, and I needed to get exact driving directions, so the girls and I headed out there fairly early Saturday morning.  They had no idea I was doing any type of "work", so they were thrilled with the adventure!







Then, we headed to the farmer's market downtown. It was the first week of the fall/winter market, so it was really, really small...only a few booths, but the girls had a great time. We picked up a pumpkin and some cake to go with our picnic lunch. Then, we headed to Steve's office and had lunch with him. He's working almost every Saturday now and I think the girls are missing him a little bit, so it was good for all of us to have lunch together! Then, the girls and I headed home and worked on our Halloween craft for the day....a baby mummie pumpkin. They had so much fun doing this (I got the idea from Family Fun).

















Abigail got such a kick out of the pacifier. She kept pulling it out of the pumpkin's mouth and putting it back in, saying, "Oh, poor little baby...do you need your pacie? Awww, don't cry little baby pumpkin!" And a few times, I caught her cuddling it like a real baby. That girl makes me laugh.  Once we finished that, I made supper.  We had spooky monster burgers and wormy potatoes....the potatoes were just my daddy's fried potatoes with some purple onion thrown in while I cooked the potatoes...as the purple onions cooked, they got brown and wormy looking.  I thought the dinner was cute, and really yummy, but I'll be completely honest...I don't think the girls were too impressed.  Oh well!  And, the batteries on my flash went out and it was pretty late by the time I finished cooking, so the pictures didn't turn out too well at all.  Maybe I'll recreate them for lunch later in the month and snap a better picture!  I really enjoyed Saturday, and when I started to feel guilty today about all that I didn't accomplish, I reminded myself that the girls & I had fun, and sometimes, that's all that really matters!