No common sense

Halloween was cold and rainy but the kids still had fun. Jenna went as Hermione Granger. Her friend Grace went as Harry Potter on the Quidditch team. Sarah went as a cat and Matthew went as spiderman. I attempted to crochet Jenna a scarf by watching youtube videos. I've realized that I am not good at crocheting.

Ready for Trick or Treating

 The next morning I woke up and started making pancakes for breakfast. I turned around and what did I see??? Matthew had opened 4 suckers and was attempting to eat them all. The candy had been strewn all over the living room and we hadn't put it out of reach of little hands yet. So apparently we need to do that.

4 suckers at once!

 I have discovered one sport in which I am better than Erik. Bowling. My Dad is an excellent bowler. He pretty much always throws a strike and I was on a bowling league when I was younger. I'm not great at it (I throw many non-strikes) but I like bowling. We decided to take the kids for bowling and pizza. It was fun except for Sarah and Matthew running all over the place and lopping the ball down the lane rather than rolling it. Then Jenna getting frustrated that she didn't get a strike. At least they didn't kick us out.

Bowling fun!

The ball will get down the lane at some point

This weekend I went to skyzone with my kids and Sunshine and her two kids. We were all so excited since the last time we went to skyzone we had a blast. Well this was quite the opposite!

Skyzone has a rule that they separate jumpers by size. So smaller kids on one end and adults on the other. Well we assumed we could jump near our little kids, especially since there were so many kids running across multiple trampolines being crazy. The skyzone "floor monitors" (16 year old kids) kept yelling at us and telling us to move. Really??? We are Moms. We are not jumping around like crazy hurting the kids. This ticked me off. I wanted to jump near my kids and have fun. Also, I wanted to protect them from the crazy kids. I talked with the "manager" (another 16 year old kid) and told her the situation and asked if moms could jump near their kids. Nope. This is the rule and they never break it. No common sense. Sometimes blindly following rules without using common sense is not the best solution. Anyway - this skyzone is AWFUL. The one in Cleveland we went to before let us jump near the kids.  What happened to common sense???

In other news:

1. I LOVE Jenna's teacher this year. She took the class on a service project trip to Operation Buckeye to pack candy for the troops. She also goes to our church and took several kids from church to a food pantry last Saturday. She is amazing and she really loves Jenna. This year has been so great for Jenna.
2. I make dinner for our Bible study every week and this past week I made chicken bacon pasta in alfredo sauce. It was SO good and easy. I just cooked up some bacon, then fried the chicken in the bacon fat (super healthy), Put it in some prepared alfredo sauce with some frozen spinach and voila! An easy yummy topping for pasta. 
3. The grocery store has had raspberries really cheap ($1/half pint). So I decided to can raspberry jam and some dill relish. The raspberry jam turned out really great. Now I need to make extra bread to go with it!
4. I am down to running only once or twice a week. Today I ran 4 miles but I probably won't run the rest of the week. It is starting to get cold. However Erik plans on running all winter. He is braver than I am! 
5. I'm reading the Giver by Lois Lowry and the Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks. Both are good and I'm enjoying them.
6. Candi is leaving for Indiana soon. If you know anyone who wants to move two doors down from me I'd love it!!!