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Happy Halloween!

{ October 31, 2008 @ 3:04 am } · { Uncategorized }
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We had our annual Halloween party tonight! It was a blast! We had food, fun and even entertainment. Here are a few shots from the evening.

Our Make Your Own Carmel Apple bar…..

Before:
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and after:
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It was so easy to do the apples.  I melted the carmel in the crockpot like Stephanie did and the kids had no trouble coating their own apples.  I had several topping put out for them to roll their sticky apples in; chopped candy corn and Indian corn, chopped nuts and sprinkles and they used them all!

There were several other Halloween themed food as well…..

These are the preserved eyeballs (aka cream cheese mints) and store bought mini cupcakes,
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For non sweet foods we had: Pus with crunchy dipping bats (buffalo chicken dip w/tortillas cut out in bat shape) and mummy eyeballs (olives in puff pastry),

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Mummy dogs and bloody guts (chili),
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And here is a picture of M playing at the potions table.  These potions were not really to drink, although they were non-toxic in case someone got brave ;)   It was really more of a science experiment then a cocktail bar.
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K and her friend C put on a play with the help of B and then they did a dance. They called the style *Lazzhopping* because it was a combination of Lyrical, Jazz, Hip hop and Cheerleading LOL! We also had The Nightmare Before Christmas playing in the living room.  We had K’s friend T over, along with her little sister and they seemed to enjoy the evening too.

I had a lot of fun assembling the ingredients for the potions table.  We had Red Blood (red cabbage juice), Truth serum (vinegar), zombie virus (sugar water colored green), embalming fluid (baking soda and water), rat poison (baking soda), sulfuric acid (wine), spider venom (tea) and liquid phantom (cola).  The favorite potion was one that involved combining Red Blood and Truth serum and then adding a scoop of rat poison.  Can you guess what it looked like?

The only guffaw was that I didn’t realize that T didn’t eat meat.  Oooops! She did eat some mummy eyes and a mini cupcake and her little sis enjoyed making her carmel apple and eating it :) I hope she eaten dinner before coming over!

St. Patrick’s Day at our house

{ March 18, 2008 @ 12:34 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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K had asked if we could celebrate a *real* St. Patrick’s day.  Since we seem to have fallen into a European theme with our holidays this year I agreed to do my best. 

After much googling I discovered that, much as I expected, our *traditional* foods and celebrations of St. Patty’s Day were not much like those of Ireland.  For instance, they don’t eat corned beef in Ireland.  Instead they eat a meal called Boiling Bacon and Cabbage. You can find a recipe here.  I didn’t find that recipe until it was too late to brine the meat, so we had regular bacon with our meal.  I made cabbage and carrots in the crock pot to go with it. Next year I’ll do it right!

I found it difficult to get much information about how the Irish celebrate their holiday traditionally since most of what I found on the Internet was geared toward tourism.  I did however manage to get some stuff for K. 

We learned about Irish blessings and ST. Patrick. We also read a book called The Leprechaun’s Gold to M and B and K read one about Irish Legends. I tried very hard to avoid the stuff like making shamrock cookies and dying everything green for the day,  K and M still wanted to wear green though :) ( and I wore my Irish woolen socks LOL!).  Oh, and we listened to the Drop Kick Murphy’s ;)

We were actually really busy yesterday with music class and our foster granny’s visit and dance class and errands so I am planning on doing some sort of Celtic craft today to round out the learning.