Caramel is a human right in the fall! But what’s a girl who’s watching her waistline to do? Skinny caramel! 
Mix together: 1/2 cup powdered stevia, 1/8 teaspoon molasses, 2 tbsp butter, one egg yolk, 1/4 cup of water, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil one minute. Cool and enjoy with a pinch of salt and some crushed nuts! 

Pooh’s Heffalumpen Halloween 
A kids classic. Just the right amount of spooky, nothing unwholesome. 

Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown 

I have to admit that I don’t love that Lucy dresses up as a witch but since the rest of the spirit of the movie is so good I’m willing to overlook it. 

Curious George: Halloween Boo Fest 
If you have young boys Curious George is like crack cocaine LOL I love the sweet simple story lines with no blood and guts for a clean Halloween movie. 

E.T.
There is some mild cursing in this movie along with the adult theme of a family right after divorce however the uplifting aspects of this family flick make it worth it to me and many forget that this tale takes place over Halloween. 

Monsters Inc.

I just adore most things Pixar does and this was one of their early best. 

The Village
This movie may be a bit too scary for little children but kids 10 and up could really enjoy this tale. I know I get lost in the desire to move my family to a pseudo-Amish village somewhere away from everything and the spooky woods and fall scenery make this a great autumn night treat. 

October Kiss
A Hallmark movie about a nanny who falls in love over Halloween. She brings a cheerful spirit back to the lives of a sad family. 

Harvest Moon 

A sweet tale of a harvest fest organized to help a struggling family. 

October Sky 

A true story about the awesomeness of the white mind. A coal miner decides to be a rocket scientist and well…watch to see what happens! 

Meet Me in Saint Louie 
A classic movie staring the lovely Judy Garland, takes place in the fall. 

Luther 

Probably the best of the list, remember the other holiday celebrated on October 31st, Reformation Day! Plus those Fiennes brothers are easy on the eyes. *Wink*

Summer Magic
Don’t let the title throw you, the movie takes a family from summer into Halloween where they host a big fall festival at the end. This movie is beyond charming. 

A chilly wind makes my toes curl, my heart skips a beat at an amber colored leaf – in short, I’m an Autumn addict. 
Fall Equinox falls one week prior to the celebration of Michaelmas. These two holidays are often celebrated in similar fashions, with harvest feasts, fairs and various fall merriment.
Michaelmas adds the exciting adventures of Sir George slaying the dragon through the spirit/guidance/help of the angel Michael. Michaelmas is a fun way to look toward our inner selves for bravery and guidance as the days grow shorter and winter descends.

Every year my family and I go on a dragon hunt at the same nature park. It’s a really sweet tradition as we search the rocks and caves for dragons. We imagine the black marks on the rocks to be dragon’s breath, crushed rocks become the trail the heavy dragon left behind when he walked through and my oldest daughter started a new tradition this year of trying to find the baby dragons in the little caves or finding the mommy dragon’s eggs.

After a vigorous dragon hunt we returned home to enjoy some delicious dragon bread and blackberry pie! 

For our recent Swiss Days adventures I made my daughters two Durndl dresses. Using a sleeveless dress the already owned. I traced a pattern onto newspaper and then used that pattern to cut, and then sew the dresses together. It was crazy easy. I thought I would share…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to celebrate our Swiss heritage at our local Swiss Days!! One of my daughters won the yodeling contest, three of my children were in the parade and pageant, we danced to Oompah music and two of my sons reached the top of the rock climbing wall, while in lederhosen! Happy days! 

A homeschool project for the little ones. Painting stop lights on egg cartons. We are learning about how to be cautious. They are so cute in daddy’s shirts! 

Pinterest suspended me for “hate speech.” Nothing I ever posted was hate speech. I never attacked anyone. 99% of my Pinterest was recipes and baby pictures. I never violated the policies stated above. They have no appeals process. Years of pins, just gone.

A useful tool I have found in our homeschooling is to teach children at a young age to draw using shapes instead of lines. On the left is a typical child’s drawing, something you would see from your average 4-6 year old. On the right is the same child’s first attempt at drawing using whole shapes instead of outlining with lines. Can you see the amazing improvement from the first to the second? It only takes about 5 minutes to demonstrate this to your child but it will dramatically increase their artistic ability in the coming years as they train their mind to see whole shapes and more acuaretly represent what is THERE as opposed to interpreting objects and then representing them abstractly with outlines. 
Happy drawing! 

The dream is over, the Royal Couple of Cute has apparently parted ways as Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. (I know, I know, try to contain your tears).

The press has been lapping up the juicey tidbits written by Jolie in the “how, why and feel free to b**ch” section of her divorce paperwork. Oh how could this fairytale romance have ended?

Let’s break down her “reasons” shall we? (Notice all the feminist buzz words from her.)

He Won’t Let Me Focus On Muh Careers! 

According to Jolie she wants to focus on her “humanitarian” work and Brad just doesn’t get it! He wants *gasp* to focus on HIS job of, oh I don’t know, paying the freaking bills for her and her adopt-a-thon mansion! How dare he want to work when she has a “career” of being a big, powerful, refugee hugging, mega-hippie! How dare he!
He’s Mean to Muh Kids!

Let’s excuse for second that Jolie has made Brad the international champion of cuck, by filling their home with a Benaton ad of kids that aren’t his and then turning his one biological child into a transgendered basket case before she was old enough to enter her first Montessori preschool. No, if that weren’t enough now she’s shocked, shocked I say, by the way he apparently treats the children!

Let’s get one thing straight about we ladies. Our parenting is all about cupcakes, hugs, rainbow birthday parties and Pinterested school box lunches. Dad on the other hand does the dirty work. He’s trained to, it’s in his DNA. When a kid screws up, Dad has an inate desire to punish the child. Women, in general, do not (unless they are psycho single mothers trying to over compensate, then abuse is rampant). Back in the day, before women’s lib, women didn’t love to hear a child get spanked or sent to time out, but we stayed out of Dad’s way.

Now women are told our whole lives about the superiority of all things women and we’ve decided as a culture that Dad’s methods are abuse and we’ve traded discipline of any kind for cookies and participation trophies. (Greatly damaging our children in the processes, I might add). Angelina has decided that Brad should have no say in how his kids are raised which brings us to Brad Fault Number Three…
Oh Lawdy, He’s Dangerous!!

Fetch your smelling salts and clutch your pearls ladies and gents, Angelina has accused Brad of being a big, bad, scary monster that she fears might be dangerous for the kids! Let’s get one thing straight, spiders of the floor feel “dangerous” to we ladies so we are typically not trusted sources on true danger but this claim serves one huge, freaking purpose and that is to get Jolie the sole custody of the children by claiming Pitt is one typewriter away from a Shiningesque hatchet tirade. Without interference from that nasty old man, Jolie is free to let her children run feral and grow up to be the stunning people all lib kids turn out to be (right Rosie O’Donnell?)

Good luck sweetie, better put the drug rehab center and the city morgue on speed dial.
He Wants Friends and Like, a Life, Outside of MEE!

Brad really, I don’t understand why you won’t just make money without working, sit down and shut up about the children, act as Jolie’s humanitarian secretary (here, hold her bag while she makes a speech) and just be freaking happy to stay at home EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! But no, you must disappoint all of humanity by daring to have friends and go to Hollywood parties!  You ogre! Don’t you understand that having a social life or interests or hobbies outside of your wife’s approval, participation and dominion is simply not allowed under the the Laws of Feminism, section 4, sub paragraph F? My goodness, Sir, you deserve what you get, may God have mercy!
He’s Been A-Steppin’ Out On Me!
Oh yes, the cognitive dissonance is real. Let me tell you a story of a sweet young girl who married the sexy, talented Brad Pitt only to have her dreams smashed by a home wrecking hussy who decided to have an affair with HER husband while on the set of a movie, hence causing a divorce from said sweet girl.. Oh, Jolie, did you think I was talking about you? (Que evil laughter) of course not, you ARE the hussy, at least you were, now you claim the shoe’s on the other foot and you expect respectable people to give a darn? Good luck with that! I’m betting the affair is one of two things…

1. A paranoid delusion brought on by your menopausal induced anxiety and psychosis or…

2. The only way Brad can literally do a freaking thing FOR HIM SELF. Push a man away and guess what? He goes the heck away. Own it.
Well, Angelina, I can’t say I like your politics, your example of womanhood, your xenophilia or your let’s-make-sleeping-beauty-a-lesbian movies but let me close by saying I wish you all the best of luck raising those rainbow babies all by your lonesome as you spiral further and further down the Joan Crawford route in an attempt to bully someone, anyone, into giving you some shred of love and respect.

Because of the limited storage space on my iPad I use Pinterest to store my favorite pictures and memes. I have many boards which Commies would find offensive including “Facts aren’t Racist”, “Islam” and “Feminism is Awful” but Pinterest  recently chose to delete my board on Nationalism, calling it hate speech. 

I was honestly quite surprised. My “Facts Aren’t Racist” board is far more triggering with racial IQ differences and race based crime stats but Pinterest chose to come after my board which was specifically about two things: American Pride and Europe for Europeans. I cannot think of a more directly targeted anti white, racist thing for them to do. Apparently, according to Pinterest, thinking whites have the right to their ethnic homeland and the homelands their ancestors built is “hate speech!” 

Friends, keep fighting!