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Making Decorations

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When October rolled around this year, Joss was adamant that we have decorations. I blame his kindergarten teachers for this.  He kept bringing home artworks he'd made at school (and since he has two schools, there was twice as much art).   I certainly displayed all of his masterpieces. But even that wasn't enough Halloween cheer for him. When I was slow to understand the level of decorating we needed, Joss took matters into his own hands.  [click to enlarge] Joss colored, cut and hung two dozen or more Halloween-themed decorations throughout the house. This is just a sampling, but it gives you an idea of his range of artwork and the variety of places that he liked to hang it. I responded by getting on Pinterest. This is the only picture I have of the Halloween candles we made. We managed to break a glass as we were setting them up, but the bases lit up and looked pretty spooky. Joss was not to be placated so easily. (Look. He really wanted huge infla

Cornbelly's

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 Cornbelly's corn maze up at Thanksgiving Point is another one of those things that we'd never taken our kids to do. They're growing up so fast, and Maddie and Will are probably too old, but I wanted to do it once all together. The long weekend was the perfect opportunity. I dragged them all up on Monday afternoon.  They had lots of different places to play and eat, and I was glad there were things that even the older kids could do.   There was an entire princess dress up area that terribly popular with the little girls. Mine has outgrown the dresses, but not the fancy balls, carriages, or princes.  Joss was the right age for everything. He enjoyed the bouncy horses once I convinced him how to ride them.   Joss and Maddie did the burlap sack slide . . .  . . . and Joss even tried the tricycle races.   Then we were ready to tackle the corn maze itself. Our secret weapon was Will, who had looked up and printed out a map of this year's maze. I do