1955's Guide to Being a Good Wife....

I have seen this passed around many times, but I always love to read it and thought I'd post it.  It is a real article that was published in 1955.  You'll probably need to click on the image to enlarge it and read it.

My how things have changed!

Halloween

So the older I get, the less into "halloween" I am and struggle with letting my kids dress up or not.  But our church does a great Fall Festival and we have gone every year and manage to just have a great time being silly and getting all sugared up without being apart of the junk that day can bring.  

Anyhow, I'm also cheap when it comes to costumes and have my kids wear what we have or multiple times!  Davis really wanted to be Goofy, but they didn't have one in his size, so I bought him a gorilla costume from Home Goods.  I thought it would be fun for him to be a

 gorilla and the two girls to dress in princess costumes and they could be 2 Beauties and a Beast....but on the day of Halloween, he wanted to wear Maddy's old chicken costume.  Kinda

 girly, but it worked!  Emma was a giraffe and Maddy was Snow White.  She even put on her best "princess" manners and was great!  I didn't get any good pics of the 3 of them before it got dark, but here's what I have...