Surprise, She is Still Sweet!

I've been in a bit of a blogging lull this week. Truthfully, there's been nothing extremely eventful going on in the Nowhere household. The nice fall weather has faded away here in the Midwest this week and it's morphed into just plain cold speckled with frost. Cold weather makes us, me especially, a little lethargic. When I get up it's dark and now when I get home it's dark. Sorta puts a damper on my usual pep.

James has been working long hours and for the past couple days he's been out at my parent's house at night working on their car. My brilliant, but lost, youngest brother managed to back over something and drive the muffler up into the trunk. Talented right?? He finished the project of replacing it last night and I'm not sure who's more grateful... Him or my parents.

While he's been slaving away being a total sweetheart and helping out, I've been spending some quality bonding time with Lena. Mother daughter alone time is rare with a family of 5, so when the occasion arises I make the extra effort to really spend it focusing on her. Granted while most of it was centered around watching something on TV (again, we don't like cold and the couch blankie is our favorite), it was nice to be cuddled up with her and our spoiled rotten loved furries for several hours this week.

We also finally managed to get around to getting her costume. This went far better than expected. A few weeks back when we first started talking about potential ideas she had informed me she wanted to be "The Darkness." I love her to pieces, but sometimes she's just downright WEIRD!

Okay... So back to the pleasant costume surprise. As we browsed through the Halloween store, she loaded me up with plenty of creepy costumes: skeleton bride, dead cheerleader, bloody zombie.... AND...

I think I about fell over with joy when she chose not to be some terribly horrifying bloody dead creature! There really is a sweet child in there still... Somewhere.

I've been enjoying this sudden appearance this week of my sweet little girl. The one who doesn't want to be "The Darkness" and wants to cuddle up with her mommy. I'm pretty sure she's only here for a visit until she retreats back into her moody hormonal tween shell again, but I'll take what I can get when I can get it. Beggars can't be choosers right?