Reduce? No. Reuse? Yes

Everywhere I turned this October there were articles about "going green" for Halloween. I don't know about all that but Coleman knew exactly what he wanted to be this year. A Panther. As in the football mess of a team. We are glad his jersey didn't have a name on the back! He actually got two nights worth of candy. Friday night his school had a trunk-or-treat and Saturday night we went to Grammys!

Trash Audit at CofC

Interesting list of things found in the College of Charleston trash audit.

Un-prepared, lack of forewarning

Of course parenting has been full of bumps and surprises along the way. We have never claimed to have it "all together." Lots of people have given us great (and notso great) advice. BUT one thing was never ever explained adequately: The mechanics of hands and pockets and the wondrous things contained therein. What is with boys and collecting things? Terrible things- old pieces of dried up worms, parts of receipts left in dirty shopping carts, deflated balloons stuck to the asphalt. Wonderful things- split nuts that look like they could "hold baby Moses", all the bean-guts spilled from a fallen stuffed animal comrade, a solitary weedy flower that mommy might like. Lately it has been acorns and rocks. Everyday he can barely walk to the carpool line because his pockets are bulging from glorious discoveries during recess. He looks like the hunchback of Notre Dame sometimes! I got tired of finding things all over the house so we've started putting everything in a jar. This was working great until we saw about six maggots growing in there yesterday. I guess they hitchhike on the acorns? I don't know but here are some pictures....

Wedding at the Citadel

People seem to either love or hate the Citadel. I (Aspa) am still undecided but hoping to love it as I am applying to grad school there! Danny officiated a wedding in their century-old chapel recently. The family was sweet enough to invite Coleman and it was precious to explain the marriage service to him. I think he actually paid attention since his Daddy was leading it! Several RUF kids were invited so of course we had to take pictures as well.

RUF Fall Retreat

We had a great time at Camp Greystone this year. We joined about 420 other college students from RUF chapters all over. Our speaker was Richie Sessions (Independent Pres in Memphis) who we had never heard of. He was simply stellar and spoke well to our skeptical students(enough alliteration in that sentence?) They came back with excellent questions for reflection. Lots of bonding and crazy goodness.

At least he is getting an "A" in cuteness

Round and round with RUF