If you leave....

If you're going to leave my life,

at least close the door behind you. 

Because the cold winds still rush through the door and linger around my home

Leaving an eerie chill 

That just reminds me of you 

And of course I get curious So from time to time 

I follow the footsteps 

You left behind 

And each time I see you

You seem perfectly fine. ✌️

I love this quote. From time to time I just happen to run across it while surfing the web. Just some thought for your heart and mind. Enjoy and have a beautiful day. 

Home

Home- where your feet leave, but your heart never does ⚓️

Halloween! DIY goodie treats

Happy halloween! 👻

I made a quick trip to Target and picked up some goodies, sweet treats, and such. 

In between michaels craft store and Target they fulfilled all my halloween needs. 

I wanted to come up with something sweet for the teachers at Liam's school, I also wanted to satisfy all the little kiddies too! They can't have chocolate or nuts so I settled with some: skittles, fruit snacks and some gooey candies. 

I thought they came out super cute. I grabbed some halloween themed clear bags at Target and made some

Personalized tags at home and printed out on card stock. 

For the teachers I wanted to do something a little different....

I got some good candies, the Reese, Hersey bars, and Kitkats. We know adults aren't into the junk! Got to make those calories count!

I picked up some bucket lateens at Michaels craft (70% off so it was a great deal) got a gormet chocolate chip cookie, stuff with tons of other great sweet treats. A few plastic bugs and spiders and it came together just sweet. 

I used some cute halloween clothes pins I found at Michaels and also were on sale. 

We are halloween ready in this house!! Liam reminded me that I missed a few people at his school; lunch lady, and the helpers. So I picked up a few little goodie boxes and stuffed some sweet treats in there. Don't want to leave anyone out. 

The Chinese box I used to stick some sweeties for my little boy in. He's been struggling to convince me to let him open it already. Silly boy. 

Hopes this inspires your craft side to get spooky. Think about it you get to munch on candy while you put things together. 

Enjoy and have a safe and happy halloween! 

It's Fall!

It's fall and the leaves are falling quickly here in chicago. I am not ready to see winter come. 

Painted some pumpkins for Halloween! 

Liam had a blast. I felt it was more age appropriate too  

I joined in the fun also. 

Liam was so empressed with mine, however I thought it could have been better. 

We enjoyed them for a week or two then this happened....

Yes that's a squirrel eating our pumpkins. 

Which lead to this...

Happy halloween! 

Ninja Turtle Goodie Bags

We had a little gathering in the park for cupcakes and snacks with Liam's schoolmate friends. It turned out to be such a success and it was quick and easy. Here are my ninja turtle goodie bags I put together for the day. 

I ordered the green paper bags off ebay fairly cheap. The mask I printed and cutout. 

Enjoy....

Packed and ready to go, I purchased ninja turtle color packs from the floor section of target, ninja turtle mask I made from buyouts off the Internet and ninja turtle fruit roll up the kids loved them. 

Happy fourth birthday to this handsome boy of mine! 

Happy Birthday Liam! 

DIY Valentine's Day Cards & Teacher Gift

I made these cute "I dig you" valentines day cards for Liam's classmates and a special little "you dig it" buckets for his two teachers. I ordered a lot of shovels through amazon, I made the cards myself, the buckets and most items inside whee purchased at dollar tree (candy, notebook, stickers, popcorn,small stuffed animal) 

I have the kids lollipops and skittles prebagged. 

I thought these came out just perfect, my son and his classmates loved them. 

The teachers really enjoyed their goodies too, a few school/classroom supples, and some goodies to enjoy at home. 

 

Recycle Facility Tour Boys Dream Come True

We are lucky enough to know someone who gave us a VIP tour of a recycle facility in Orlando, Florida. My son was ecstatic for this trip. Most kids want Disney, my boy wants garbage and recycle fun. 

We learned so much that day. Who knew recycling and sorting was so complex. I thought it was interesting that Netflix ads had to be separated because of the red dye in the paper. They can't be with other white paper, even paper with font. 

We were able to see in the mechanics shop and look into the engine of a truck. This was truly a dream come true. 

Here is a few pictures from our family trip to the recycling center, enjoy! 

Look at all those netflix flyers. That's insane. 

Even liam couldn't believe all the paper, and how they sorted them.