Mommy blogger attacked by carcass; husband mourns paint job
I'll admit it: I'm Halloween obsessed. Ever since Halloween decorations started gracing the aisles at my favorite stores in August, I have been chomping at the bit to decorate our house. Some people think the best shopping day of the year is the day after Thanksgiving. Not so. For me, it is on November 1st when all the Halloween decorations are half-price. Rifling through last year's purchases I had long forgotten was like Christmas...OK, better than Christmas.
On Saturday, we decorated the house. Or rather, Hadley and I gleefully decorated while Jamie pretended not to know us and Bode cried from the trauma of Marcus the Carcass and this year's edition: haunted eyeballs.
The kid just needs to learn to suck it up.
The biggest obstacle was finding the actual decorations. We are finishing our basement so nothing is in its regular place.
Not that this is unusual. But it's nice to at least have an excuse.
We found our huge box of decorations at the back of the crawl space. My loving husband (who would never complain over such an undertaking) crawled in and slowly inched the behemoth box to the door.
The problem was not getting it out of the small opening and over the ledge. The problem was that I have not been to boot camp for a couple of months and I was responsible for easing the 100-pound box to the ground by myself.
Rest assured, there was no easing whatsoever.
Instead, there was a whole lot of shouting as Marcus came smashing down on me.
And my loving husband's reaction? Did he come to my rescue by snatching Marcus off of me?
No. He instead lamented that I had scraped up the newly-painted ledge while I lay recovering in a heap.
Death by carcass. Kind of ironic, don't you think?
After that little incident, Pumpkin Man had better watch his back...and his orange monstrosity.
Now, if I could only lift the darn thing....
On Saturday, we decorated the house. Or rather, Hadley and I gleefully decorated while Jamie pretended not to know us and Bode cried from the trauma of Marcus the Carcass and this year's edition: haunted eyeballs.
The kid just needs to learn to suck it up.
The biggest obstacle was finding the actual decorations. We are finishing our basement so nothing is in its regular place.
Not that this is unusual. But it's nice to at least have an excuse.
We found our huge box of decorations at the back of the crawl space. My loving husband (who would never complain over such an undertaking) crawled in and slowly inched the behemoth box to the door.
The problem was not getting it out of the small opening and over the ledge. The problem was that I have not been to boot camp for a couple of months and I was responsible for easing the 100-pound box to the ground by myself.
Rest assured, there was no easing whatsoever.
Instead, there was a whole lot of shouting as Marcus came smashing down on me.
And my loving husband's reaction? Did he come to my rescue by snatching Marcus off of me?
No. He instead lamented that I had scraped up the newly-painted ledge while I lay recovering in a heap.
Death by carcass. Kind of ironic, don't you think?
After that little incident, Pumpkin Man had better watch his back...and his orange monstrosity.
Now, if I could only lift the darn thing....
posted by Amber @12:34 AM
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13 Comments:
Lol!!! You could always threaten to cut it off the stem early.
Oh, so much fun. I told my kids they could go and get out the halloween decor and bring it upstairs and we would start decorating. They brought up about one box worth and were tired. What? wimps.
Glad you're still alive. That's an awesome box of halloween stuff.
I am slowly converting to Halloweenism. I've always been a major Christmasite... but I'm seeing that there can be joy had by both holidays...
You've inspired me to get out my decorations! LOVE Halloween!
Poor Amber!
Did Jamie get any pictures?? hehehe!
I love halloween too! It's just kinda hard to get into it when the weather is 105 degrees outside though!
I LOVE Marcus the Carcass!! He is one of the few good decorations I have at this point. I need to remedy that situation!
My hubby has this fabulous hand saw I could loan you...
Hee hee.
That reminds me it is about time to break out the decorations.
My favorite thing about Halloween (besides stealing chocolate from my children) are the songs. How can you not love The One-Eyed One-mumble mumble Purple People Eater" or "Monster Mash"?
Hope Marcus survives this year :)
I LOVE Halloween decor too! Where are your pictures, Lady?!! I'm glad you, at least, survived Marcus the Carcass!! :)
This is so funny! I hope you are not black and blue from all that. Not exactly Halloween colors! Should I expect photos of Halloween decorations soon? I mean the decorations decorated on your rooms and stuff, not the in the box decorations photo :-P
I love Halloween too :)
But way up here (Canada), people just don't get into it until after Thanksgiving, so I have to wait a bit more.
And I just can't buy the candy yet or I'll eat it, lolol.
I'm having a vision of a battered wife, with a handful of Sharpies, expressing her displeasure by drawing on Dillboy.
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