Holiday Hiatus

If you're like me, or I'm like you, then, beginning with spooky Halloween, the Holiday Season is upon us. I'm edging aside the more ghostly, witchy orange and black stuff for the more autumny, leafy, harvesty type of stuff. That'll stay up and around the house through Thanksgiving, and then we'll make the switch to evergreens and lights 'cause the days are getting shorter and the nights much darker and longer and brrrrrrrr, colder.

I really do like this time of year, crisp air, frost & snow, shopping and menu-planning. Enacting favorite traditions for the kids and hosting lots of visitors leaves little time, however, for my web pursuits like building out www.MotherGoose.com, finishing-up my top-secret for Moms ONLY (and adults who like gothic romances)new site - more on that soon!, and blogging here on The Real Mother Goose Blog, and tweeting a bit on @RealMotherGoose, and posting on facebook.com/RealMotherGoose...phew! I'm going to give it all one more whirl but will be turning into a pumpkin pie with all the trimmings in just another two days!

(This year I am going to wrap a small pumpkin in foil, bake it overnight at about 200 degrees and turn it, somehow, into the favorite Thanksgiving confection. See www.Chow.com for how-tos).




 

MotherGoose.com offers a few holiday things created over the years: a collection of Youtube Thanksgiving videos, Canoe Race to the Feast! game, a Turkey Garland decoration craft. I wanted to make some turkey clip art this year but didn't get to it. Perhaps next year.... Moving on to the more wintry holidays, MotherGoose.com offers a snowflake music game, snowman clip art, vintage holiday paper chain craft, a snow fairy animation and paper craft and a bunch of holiday cartoons (click on "Holiday Hiatus" to find them). Someday I will create an animated Advent calendar, but not yet as this is still the season when I have little kids, stockings to stuff, baking, baking, baking for school holiday parties and brown paper packages wrapped up in string and shipped in the nick of time.





So though I mean to blog more often, tweet twixt times and create more games, those things are set aside, for now, to be a real mom who cooks from scratch and folds the laundry before pitching it into piles in each relevant bedroom. One good thing about coding, web design & writing though, is that much of it can be done in my head while my hands are busy with pie dough and pigtail ornaments. But to relieve the stress a little, I'm taking a formal hiatus from my web activities until the New Year, unless inspired to blog or draw clip art by a quiet fireside evening, the tree all trimmed and kiddies asleep in their beds, visions of sugarplums...!