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Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Great Pumpkin Massacre

Because we have about 829,462,591 things going on in the next few days, I thought that I would be smart and go out and get pumpkins today for the kids. So while they were all at school, I ran to the grocery store. I had noticed yesterday that they had some pretty good-sized ones there, and they were $4 each regardless of size - so I figured that I'd get some big-ish ones.

Picture this. I got to the store, and they had the pumpkins outside of the front doors, in two of those gigantic cardboard bins. I started poking around, and noticed a huge one just under the top layer. So I rearranged them and pulled it out and put it into the cart. Then I found another one the same way. I rearranged some more, and got that one.

Then I saw it. I saw the mother of all grocery store pumpkins, at the very bottom of the bin.

I went for it.

Seriously, I felt like I was dumpster diving. I was headfirst into the bin, trying desperately to get a hold of it to pull it out, but I was just too short (damned genetics, anyway) to get it. The 873-year old grocery cart guy tried to help, but he was useless, so he got one of the younger guys who looked at me with the "lady, do you have to have THAT pumpkin" look. I shot him the death look back, and he helped me to get it out of the bin. After I loaded 6 pumpkins into 2 carts (only 3 were huge) and paid for them, I headed off to do everything else that I needed to do.

After all of the kids got home from school, we inhaled some pizza and then started The Great Pumpkin Massacre. It only took about 5 hours from start to finish, included a few meltdowns and a spilled mop bucket of nasty water (dammit I knew I should have dumped that before we started), but it resulted in 6 pretty cool looking jack-o-lanterns.

Where are the pictures, you ask? Well, Blogger seems to be having issues tonight, and it won't let me upload a single picture. It's just telling me that there's some sort of internal error. I really don't feel like fighting with it, so if you want to see the pictures, just CLICK HERE. Hopefully that works. If it doesn't, just go to my facebook page and look for the photo album called "The Great Pumpkin Massacre".

I'll deal with the blogger issues tomorrow. If I have time. I still have to finish making a Halloween costume for a truck. Yes, for a truck. You read that right. You'll see that on Saturday, if I make it that long.

7 comments:

  1. SO cool! you're a good mom...I hated carving pumpkins...even with grandkids...it just isn't something I can do worth a darn...yours are FAB! Such fun and good memories for the kiddos...(I had trouble uploading yesterday btw..wth anyway??) Enjoyed the pix on facebook...

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  2. urg...computer ate my post...my own darn fault..I usually "copy" just in case. anywho...just was saying I hated pumpkin carving and I think you are a FAB mom and the pumpkins look great AND I also had problems uploading video to blogger yesterday although my pictures went ok...
    whew..
    Mare

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  3. I love it! GPM!!! I hate carving pumpkins too - ... the things we do for our kids :)

    Kristen (I can't seem to post as myself) from alittlesomethingforme

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  4. I loved watching my kids carve their pumpkins, it was always a huge production. They stopped doing it last year so I will live vicariously thru you! Thanks!!!
    Hugs, Beth

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  5. I LIKED THE FACES ON THE KIDS AS YOUR PUMKIN PARTY WAS TAKEN PLACE.
    THE EXCITEMENT IS WORTH ALL YOUR WORK. THOSE KIDS ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AS A MOM.
    THE PICTURES ARE ON F/B.

    GRANNY

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