popular peace prize

My kids have discovered the soundtrack to Wicked. (Thanks a lot Peen!) After hearing the song Popular at least 500 times, I realized that one verse of the song was likely written for Obama. It all just became so obvious in light of his Nobel Peace Prize.

Think of celebrated heads of state,
Or specially great communicators!
Did they have brains or knowledge?
Don't make me laugh!
They were POPULAR!
Please!
It's all about popular.
It's not about aptitude,
It's the way you're viewed,
So it's very shrewd to be,
Very very popular like ME!

the obsession continues....

The obsession with Halloween continues at the Wimmer household. We sent out Halloween cards instead of Christmas cards this year. I'm sorry if you didn't get one. I didn't order enough cards and ran out about half way through my list. But here is our current family picture.

And this one more accurately depicts our family. The costumes were obviously spontaneous.

project

Having a little bit of free time everyday has done wonders for my sanity. I find myself just driving around and stopping at local boutique shops and admiring all the cool stuff. I found a really neat antique door that had been refurbished into a coat rack that I fell in love with. I visited it a few times and decided that $300 was too much to spend.
So yesterday I dragged two of my friends with me to DI and found a door that would work. Look what I made!

I went to a local antique shop and found this cool doorknob.


Went to Rod Works for some hooks...

And now I have my own coat rack and it only cost me $16 for everything! Pretty cute huh?

'Tis the season

My kids love Halloween more than any other time of year. I like it because it makes it socially acceptable to have skeletons on the mantel (which my kids insist on). Just wait till our new neighbors figure out that we celebrate year-round....