Pepperoni Love

All kinds of exciting Halloween-y things are happening for Wm next week. We are getting his costume  and pumpkins on Saturday, his class is having a party, he's going trick or treating, we are taking him to a "Harvest Party" at the middle school he'd funnel into if we stay put, and on Saturday we are all headed over to his friend's family's house for a delicious dinner! Wm cannot contain himself!! I am also plotting his school picture outfit for next week…which, as would be expected, Wm doesn't give a fig about. Which actually works in my favor.

As everyone knows, Wm has been off eating cows since visiting the dairy farm last school year. In fact, when there really wasn't any other food he would eat at Roscoe Village and he ordered a cheeseburger out of desperation, he only picked at it. When he was hungry and grumpy later, I asked why he hadn't eaten a good lunch and he wailed, "I JUST COULDN'T EAT THE COW!" Lesson learned. But now, he's adding other meats to his list and only picks at them. I told him he'd easily be a vegetarian if it wasn't for pepperoni. That kid loves him some pepperoni. So Wm is a Pep-Vegatarian. We watched Food, Inc on Netflix and Wm said, "I just cannot be a vegan. I love cheese too much." He could eat cheese for every single meal. Grilled cheese, man n cheese, cheese pizza - if cheese is the main ingredient, Wm will devour it. I showed him how to make his own cheese on toast and it's like Wm Nirvana. The two things Wm loves above all else: cheese and bread.

This was the view from my office yesterday morning. The picture doesn't do it justice. It's full dark when I get in now and the most beautiful sunrise happens right over the Shoe every day (which is there, but you can't really see in the picture). It's because god bleeds scarlet and gray. O-H!