Teaholic not quite anonymous

Well, it's finally starting to feel like fall around here. The air is crisp and the leaves are falling from the trees. It's about time! We spent the day doing fun Halloween things around here this morning. I made Halloween cupcakes for playgroup tomorrow. We gutted three pumpkins and carved the big one. I baked pumpkin seeds! I LOVE pumpkin seeds. I tried them with cooking spray this year instead of butter and they turned out really nice. I like them better than with butter where they still stay a little bit greasy.

During Maddy's nap I ran out to Walmart to pick up my prescriptions (with my $30 off coupon) and did some other shopping while I was there. I guess the word some would be an understatement. I did buy a new fall coat for myself since my other light coat wore out. Of course we bought the old proverbial diapers, laundry detergent, etc...

While I was there I decided to turn my little playgroup into a bit of a Halloween party. So I bought a few goody bags and misc. stuff to give away. I'll also serve Pumpkin Spice Tea, apple cider and have apples with caramel dip.

After I got home we all jumped back in the car and went grocery shopping. I made a very LONG list yesterday because I am trying some new meals this week. I'm so glad I had Matt home to go with me.

It was a busy night! We made jambalaya tonight from a recipe we received from a friend. It is REALLY good, but man, there's a lot of cutting and prepping involved. After dinner it was time for Maddy to go to bed. Well, we were running a bit late... so we started bedtime at 7 and skipped bath.

SHE JUST FELL ASLEEP NOW AND IT'S 9:00 (and that was with a little bit of Benedryl involved, too). A friend of mine mentioned that maybe Maddy was ready to give up her naps now and that's why we're having the night time issues. I think that she definitely could have a point. But I think I'm going to cut her nap to only an hour (it's been as long as she wants up to know, normally 2 hours) and also pull it back a 1/2 hour from 1:00-12:30. So she'd sleep from 12:30-1:30. Hopefully that will help with her sleeping at night. I mean, she did not at all act sleepy tonight. She was bored while we were rocking her. She was very patient with it, but after a while we decided to do a Mr. Rodgers since sleep was not apparently coming that easily. Again, she wasn't being naughty or anything, just acting quite bored with the whole situation and not at all tired.

Of course, this one hour switch up would happen during the week the Matt is busiest at work. Ah well, we'll get through it.

Tomorrow AM I need to do some quick cleaning before playgroup and I'm pretty tired. It's time to head off to bed, I think. Maddy was up quite a bit last night.

Tea of the day: Pumpkin Spice Tea