Carving pumpkins with five kids after Dave’s been in China for a week is a monumental task. It definitely deserves a nomination for the #1 mommy award.
I’m a slacker and a procrastinator extraordinaire. Of course I didn’t go buy pumpkins until October 30th. Who would have thought that in the pumpkin capital of the valley we’d have a shortage? My three older kids were very close to winding up with 2 misshapen, soft, overpriced pumpkins to share amongst each other. Thank goodness for the greatest mother-in-law ever who helped cart my lazy procrastinator self to every grocery store in town looking for pumpkins. We finally found the perfect squash at store number 5.
Everyone knows the standard pumpkin carving equipment: itty bitty dull knives with bright orange handles, lots of very hard stencils that frustrate the kids beyond belief, little tiny scoopers to scoop out lots and lots of slimy pumpkin guts that no one will touch but mom, and the most important piece:
which would be the wine not the animal crackers or indiana jones car or the grout in desperate need of a good scrub.
The wine is important because of this:
and all the crying that insude after this:
but in the end, after just 2 long and slimy hours, a bowl full of pumpkin guts, and a spattering of crying; I wound up with three very proud kids and two worn out babies.
Overactiveovaries 
Fun stuff! You should have called, I’d bring the wine and some pumpkin stickers–no cutting involved!
Hee hee! Looks like some serious pumpkin carnage! Good for your little guys, though, creating pumpkin art. And good for you, putting up with the mess and pumpkin guts and unhappy toddler tears–I know your kiddos will love the memories of ‘doing pumpkins with Mom!’
Blessings!
I love those things that just stick into the pumpkins. I’m so getting some for next year! That is the best! If only I had known that wine would make it easier to spend three hours carving pumpkins! They look great and the kids will have great memories!
OMG that made me laugh so hard! Poor guy, I hope you had two glasses.
You know pumpkins don’t grow on trees. What a waste of a good pie. And I thought my wife was out saving the world when she left me alone to cook my own dinner and she was really driving you all over town looking for pumpkins.