Sesame Street Celebrates 40 Years!

Sesame Street celebrates their 40th anniversary today! What a perfect opportunity to view some of the classics!

Did you know Sesame Street has its own youtube channel? It pretty much kept me busy all morning!

Here are some of the tunes that I could recite from heart without missing a beat:











Well, I could post Sesame Street memories forever!

Oh, one last one, though. This scene used to completely terrify my brothers! It remains a constant source of ridiculing decades later. Not like we need any more help in that department. Hah!



Check out:

Take a Sesame Street Song Quiz from Mental Floss
(I got 10 out of 10... just saying.)

Make your own Pinball Number Count Clock from Sesame Street's Pinball animation.

Print out crazy amounts of Sesame Street coloring pages!

Buy Christmas Eve on Sesame Street on DVD! As children, we would watch this faithfully every year on Christmas Eve. (Still do!)

Find games, videos and more at the official Sesame Street website!

Farewell October

I am taking a break from my frantic cleaning of Halloween decorations to post about our Halloween adventures!

The minute the hour strikes midnight and the calendar turns the page to November... I am utterly and completely, 100% DONE with pumpkins, witches, cobwebs and spiders. UGH!

I begin to feel a little like my tired pirate, Sophia, pictured below.


Don't get me wrong, though! Oh how I adore October! The leaves changing; falling from the trees and skittering across the ground. I love the pumpkin pie and apple cakes; fresh bread warm from the oven and hot cider on windy, rainy nights! Autumn could go on forever and ever in this house!

Every year for Halloween, we host a party at my house. It has become easier for us as a family of 7 to stay in the neighborhood, trick-or-treating and then having family and friends over for a spooky celebration!

We used to travel to each grandparent and great-grandparent's home to visit on Halloween night but it is much easier for everyone to come to us now!

Our Halloween night was fantastic! Complete with apple-bobbing and Best Costume ballots; candlelight and black light. This year even included tarot card readings by myself (dressed as Sybil Trelawney from the Harry Potter books!)

Here are the pictures of the girls dressed in their scary costumes and some close-ups of a long night of pumpkin carving! Enjoy!