Carving Pumpkins in the Park

You know that old saying.......

"you can't carve a punkin without a table"...

Ok----- there is no old saying about that.....

but we could very well start  putting it out there right now...

and then future generations can say ....

"you know that old saying....You cant carve a punkin w/o  a table"

(and it would be a real saying  in their case....

ya know cuz now it's been said.)

So with that out of the way.....

We carved pumpkins in the Park today.

It just seemed so much more practical than gutting them in the hotel room....

and skipping the activity all together was not an option.

Halloween is really important to me.

That might sound wierd.  Most people would say the same about

Christmas or Easter..... (they too are important to me)

but I remember being really young and knowing that when i

heard talk about Halloween coming....my birthday wasnt far off!

My birthday is the day after Halloween.

I  am  a big fan of birthdays ...(especially my own)

so the excitement of this double holiday was just almost

too much to hold inside!

The pumpkin carving in the park went off w/o a hitch!

It almost seemed more natural in a way...

like it actually makes more sense outside.

The cool crisp fall air...

Leaves falling around us....

The parks recreation getting called to check out what we

were up to......

I am fairly sure he was going to tell us that we couldnt have knives in the

park or something but  I played it all sweet and just looked really

excited to see him and have him check out our artwork.

He asked if we always carve pumpkins in parks...

like he was about to tell us it's frowned upon....

and i replied...

"well we dont have a home...we live in a hotel...so we didnt really have another

option and we didnt want to tell our kids they couldnt  do it this year...."

He was all....."have a good afternoon Ma'am!"

the clean up was a cinch and the smell wont linger in  for a week!

It was good all the way around!

We are thriving here!

We are almost scarily good at this homeless thing....

what does that mean?  i dunno.   i dont ask questions when stuff is going good.

You know that old saying...

"if it ain't broke  don't fix it....."

xoxo  shell