Days with the Dorans

Tomorrow is the yearly Pumpkin Festival at the Littles' school. I am excited for everyone to wear their costumes even though it will be a busy day going there and then off to soccer games all day and finally a night with friends for Jeff and I with NO KIDS (can't wait for that). I offered to make play dough for the Pumpkin Festival. It is given away as one of the prizes for the kids. Jeff had practice at church, so I waited until Sean was in bed to put my troops to work! They were thrilled to help out and as they worked, they talked about "Dorans' Play Dough Factory" and it seemed to work that way- like a well-oiled machine. The first batch the middles helped mix up but after that I did all the mixing and cooking while the 3 Bigs rolled the dough into balls and put them in little sandwich bags. I laughed at Joe documenting all the happenings. He took this picture of all the different colors we made as well as pictures of his sibs playing with the dough, roll...

It has been a week! I have a dear friend (who I can't wait to see) coming in to town on Thursday to stay with us. I had a meeting at church for the Christmas program. Craziness at school. (Need I say more?) And on top of all that I made 100 bags of playdough- Yes, I said 100! The kids' school is having a Halloween festival on Saturday and so I offered to help make playdough. When I saw that no one else had really signed up to make the playdough- I decided to step up and make more... (I know first hand how hard teachers work and if I didn't do it, I knew that one of the teachers would.) After we made the playdough and put them into individual bags, (Yes the kids helped.) Ali Jane sorted the bags into colors and put them in the correct bags. I wasn't the meanest mom in the world. I made some for them to play with as well. The kids had fun (as they always do) and Joey actually made this cool spider! (Not bad if I do say so myself!) I think that this is Zach's first ...