Pumpkintopia

Pumpkintopia

Oh man- how we love this time of year. I am so delighted that Liam and Quinlan share my absolute knee-shaking adoration of Halloween. The make-believe, the creativity, the sweet sultry slip into fall, the treats, the magic….and last but certainly not least: ALL THINGS PUMPKIN! Yes yes yes, the pumpkin spice lattes, but also the pumpkin raviolis, the pumpkin soup, the pumpkin pasta. It’s as if we’ve died and gone to heaven.

Pumpkintopia

Today, to celebrate our own bachannal pumpkin love, we doubled up and made pumpkin milkshakes while we carved our pumpkins and roasted our seeds. True bliss.

The pumpkin milkshake was easy. Here’s what we used:

Ingredients

1 cup vanilla ice cream
¾ cup milk
½ cup pure pumpkin (canned is okay, but not pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
lots of enthusiasm

Just threw it into the blender and voila:

Pumpkin Milkshake

 

Look at the little men getting into the action, Liam with a full body pumpkin scoop technique, and Quinlan with his usual excavation of the fridge (and subsequent disappearance- where’s Quinlan?

Lost in the Fridge

 

Later today it’s all costume parades and Halloween parties, but for this blissful hour it’s a full on tribute to our endless love of the pumpkin! And while these two clean up, I’m going to sit back and eat both these trays of pumpkin seeds. Believe it.

pumpkin seeds

Accidental/On Purpose Beach Babies

Morning Journaling on Beach

We’re finally settled in to our new little house in Miami, and have made a regular habit of visits to the beach. I still pinch myself that the beach is only a few short blocks away, and that I can start every morning there and end every day there if I want to. How many years have I dreamed of a life like that? And to be on the beach with my kids, little beach babies ready to report for duty! While the leaving everything familiar behind is never easy, the boys are digging their new life, their new room, their new town, and are excited to make new friends. Doesn’t hurt that we started the whole adventure with a birthday and Halloween, so celebrations and treats are instant associations.

Morning Journaling on Beach
I’ve held off on doing a blog like this for, well, about a zillion years. At least since the invention of the horribly named things, but this is just such a great way to record our wonderful world adventures, and I love the idea of compiling everything into one place for the boys (as much fun as it has been to old school cobble together everything in a zillion notebooks, stray pieces of paper, random folders, cell phones, etc.) I love that this can follow us wherever we go, and will create something iterative and growing as the boys grow. So here goes!

And just in case anyone would like one, here is a moment of zen:

A moment of zen, Surfside Fl 2015 from Jessica Abegg on Vimeo.

Wonderful World