October Fun Challenge

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I found this little list when I was going through a stack of papers. I really liked the "positive angle" and thought I would share it. Make sure you participate in the Fun Challenge below!

The Cost of Raising A Child - The Positive Angle

There have been various breakdowns offered about the huge expense parents experience to raise a child--The cost range anywhere from $149,610 to $246,320 depending on family income. This is good information but one must also consider the huge benefits as well:

What do you get for you money?

• Naming rights, First, middle, and last
• Glimpses of God every day.
• More love than your heart can hold
• Butterfly kisses and Bear hugs.
• Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
• A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites building sand castles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
• Someone to laugh yourself silly with
• You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets, hand prints set in plaster for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.
• You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, removing a splinter, getting a wad of gum out of hair, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but gets treated to ice cream regardless.
• You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and mortality that no college can match.

-Source: Unknown


Do you have anything you would like to add? =)

October Fun Challenge

Since it is Halloween this month lets take a walk down memory lane. Add your pictures of homemade costumes of the past. And homemade I mean something anything that was not pulled out of a package and done, but something that took a little creative juices! You don't have to be a sewer, you can be a glue gunner, duct taper or even a stapler...let's show off and have a little fun!

Here are mine:

 

I made chaps for the kids for Halloween a couple of years ago. My daughter's were a bit too big for her to wear! I also made that shirt (or more like cut it down to size) for her to wear with the chaps. So far my son has requested to wear the chaps for 2 Halloweens!