Happy Halloween!

Hope ya'll had a rootin' tootin' time!  

Another Fail....but not from me

There are times that our mailman misses a house on the street, and the entire neighborhood finds themselves shuffling mail with neighborhood houses.  An accidental oversight that I can understand - we all get distracted sometimes, right?

Every once in while I get the mail for a little old widow that lives four blocks over.  I'm not quite sure where the confusion is on this one - but again...I'll let it slide.

My mom still has my house number wrong, so the mailman will often ring the doorbell and ask, "You're Melissa, right? You'd better tell this person to change your address in their book!"

Every one of these situations is acceptable...to some degree.  However, in my mailbox today, I found this:

To:

Bart and Kierra Allsip

8545 Walstreet View Blvd

Gahannon, OH  43230

(names and street changed to protect identity)

Not. Even. Close.

I'm not even sure that writing, "Not at this address," and placing it back in the outgoing mail is sufficient.  I think the only thing I can do is leave it out with a sticky note that says, "Uhhhh...., really?"

Probably the MOST disturbing thing...the only thing inside is a personal check.

Kitchen Adventures

Remember that time I decided to try my hand at gingerbread house making?  No?  Then click HERE for a refresher course.

I had another moment this afternoon.  My friend, Mary, recently blogged about her fear of baking bread.  She didn't consider herself skilled in the area, and decided she wanted to overcome this fear - and try something new. {Anyone that knows Mary knows that she's good at everything. I mean EVERYTHING.  She's like my husband.  I can teach him a new talent, and within a week he's ten times better than I've ever been.  I don't get people like this.}  Back to bread. So Mary makes bread, it is beautiful, and she shares it on her blog:

Looks pretty tasty, doesn't it?  The recipe was simple, and I consider baking to be one of the few things I can do somewhat decently (I mean, I'm not opening a bakery or anything).  I enjoy making breads, rolls, etc. and figured that if "first time Mary" could make this lovely loaf, surely I could whip up something similar.

Not even close.

What the heck?  Oh...and the middle was completely uncooked.  I mentioned to Mary earlier that I think I was probably off doing something awful (like secretly laughing at someone who fell - or making sarcastic remarks) on the day that Heavenly Father was handing out talents.  I guess some things never change.  

Even though I would have thought that Mary was probably off making sarcastic remarks with me, it is obvious she was present at the talent parade.  

 (More things you'll never see me succeeding at HERE).

...I don't think I'm done with this bread recipe just yet, but I probably will cut the recipe in half next time.  Three large loaves is a LOT to botch!    

Everything is Married

Sometimes I feel bad for Jude.  He's always a good sport, but Maddie is REALLY obsessed with weddings.  She can turn any game Jude is playing into a wedding.  I think all of his trains are married to other trains, I have witnessed food weddings, doll weddings, Maddie and Jude weddings, car weddings, even their blankies are married.  I have seen so many of these that I really don't even notice them anymore - but when Aunt Mandy was playing with Maddie and Jude at my dad's house - she went ALL OUT for the marriage of Maddie and Jude's monkeys.  The monkeys were only purchased by my dad a day earlier...not much of a courtship if you ask me.

MADELYN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

THE MARRIAGE OF HER MONKEY,

LOTTIE 

to

JASPER

MONKEY OF JUDE.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO

A WEDDING AND RECEPTION/DANCE PARTY

IN THEIR HONOR.

(YOU MAY JOIN THEM HERE)

*Props to Mandy for designing all of the wedding party's attire.  All clothing items were 100% recycled from the wrapping that came with my dad's new TV*