A Baby Yoda Halloween

Exciting life update: Mark and I welcomed our own little Baby Yoda on Canada Day 2020! She's been an absolute doll and we just love her to pieces. So, like any good, nerdy parents, we want to dress her up in ridiculous outfits to amuse ourselves. And since we take Halloween dress up very seriously,…

To the Bus! (The End)

Woo hoo! My costume was done in time and I wore it like a champ all day on Halloween. Unfortunately, not a lot of other people were dressed up at the school where I'm teaching ... so I stood out a little bit. Then again, that's never stopped me before! Pretty much all of my students…

To the Bus! (Part 2)

Whew! What a week. I'll be honest, I expected to be farther along with my costume by this point ... which means that I've been working furiously on it this weekend! Here's my progress on the bus so far. I'm glad to say, it's resembling more of a bus lately and less of a giant…

This Is Halloween!!

This is the song I sang as soon as I woke up today: "This is Halloween. This is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween. Halloween, Halloween!" That's from the "Nightmare Before Christmas" movie. And yes, I have the soundtrack. And yes, I am blaring it tonight when children show up at our door Trick-or-Treating. I'm so excited! We've…

Halloween is coming…

I'm so excited about Halloween! All week me and Mark have been perfecting our costumes. (He's Han Solo and I'm Princess Leia.) You may recall from a few posts ago that my wonderful, darling Momsy made my Leia dress for me when I went home for Thanksgiving. It looks amazing! I don't have a photo…