I was recently with one of my best girls for a quick yet FULL of love visit the other night. As we were driving back to her car, she played me some songs from her ipod and told me they were to be played at her "funeral" = "celebration of life." Um...funeral talk is not the ideal way to END your evening with a girlfriend who you love dearly and haven't yet begun to think about dying! Even though that same day it did come up from my husband's grandmother, so, I guess there was a theme to my day! Anyway, I held her hand while we listened, but one in particular, she said was her fave and I promised to start dancing and hopefully I wouldn't be the only one jumping about as we celebrated her beautiful, caring, giving, loving, laughing life of her's. I hope that I can still dance and jump about when I'm 99 years old or I hope she'll do the same for me if I go before her...but when I'm 99 years old. Ug, I'm having just as hard of a time writing this...so I'm trying to keep it short! 
Her song(s) came from the movie P.S. I Love You. Which I haven't seen, but now is at the top of the list so I can truly have my sob-fest proper. This is my friend's song below. It's a good one. Sorry, does this post even count as "fuzzy"?!  If you've thought about this topic before, I'd love to here what song you'd want to be played when your life is celebrated:)
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Kindness is spreading my friends, won't you join me? 
Last year I found the blog "kind over matter" where they spread kindness like you'd spread germs...I wish there was something more "kind" I could compare it to, but "germs" was the first thing that popped into my head when I was wondering what spread fast and a lot! This blog is very inspiring. I posted this sign on my door when I worked in an office and my co-workers loved it!
Recently I was reading Kelly Rae's blog and she mentioned this sign and was inspired to make her own sign to start spreading kindness everywhere she went. I took her lead and made my own version of the "take what you need" sign and started spreading some FREE love around! Feel free to make your own sign or print out my sign, or any of the signs that I've linked you to here, and start spreading kindness in your community! Link back to me and post photos, I'd love to see what you do!
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Does the Switch Witch visit your house? 
Well, for the first time ever it will be visiting ours! 
We have a magic Elf named Rarry at Christmas, the Easter Bunny comes and takes all the plastic eggs if you leave them sitting outside in your Easter basket after Easter is over, and NOW we have a friend at Halloween that will come and steal all of your candy but leave you a toy! How awesome is that? 
A friend of mine on facebook posted a question last night, "What are your candy rules after Halloween is over?" and one of her friends told about the Switch Witch, and I was immediately sold! She said her kids get to pick out 10 pieces of candy and then the the rest gets stolen! She said the witch leaves a toy in it's place. It would have been better for us if we'd known about this witch when the girls were little, because then we wouldn't have to do so much to "invite" the witch to our home, she doesn't know we want our candy stolen afterall! 

So, here are our steps to inviting the Switch Witch to our home...let's hope it works:)

1. Tell the kids you heard about this crazy witch that comes after Halloween and steals candy but leaves a toy.
2. Let the kids process this information...not so sure they like the idea of anyone STEALING their candy...but it's processing...
3. Tell the kids that they can hide a few pieces of candy from the witch so she doesn't take ALL of it...
4. OH, okay, they are now thinking this is a great idea! " I hope the witch comes and brings me a monster high doll!"
5. Hmmm, girls, how do you think we will be able to tell the witch we want her to come and steal our candy?
6 . Maybe we could make a potion, leave it outside so she can smell it while she's flying around stealing other kids candy. 
7. Perfect! Let's sort our candy...pick ten...what 15? okay...20? okay, let me see..."mommy, we need to have some in there for you and daddy too." oh, okay, 20 pieces - no more! They put it in sandwich bags - yay!
8. We now have about 4lbs of candy for the Switch Witch to take...I wonder if she'll take any to the local orthodontist and trade it for cash? probably.
9. Potion is outside and stinking up the neighborhood.
I hope she comes tonight!

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Potion Recipe: Key lime yogurt, 4 pepperonis, pickle juice, cinnamon, spinach, lemon slices, agave, old bay seasoning, leaves, flowers and mulch...Yummy!

What are your Halloween traditions and most importantly, what do you do with all the candy?!!
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