My sister and I have agreed that Halloween is the national Children’s Holiday!! Both my kids and my nephews were super psyched for the BIG day!

My kids had a half day at school, so I took the day off. I took them to school where my son’s house (grades K-1) had Halloween workshops which I helped with, then the whole school had a Halloween parade where all the kids could see one another in their costumes. They started it out with the upper grades winding through the lower house and then they wound their way back to the upper house where the lower grades walked through on their way back to their houses. Everyone ended the day with a party in their own classrooms where lots of sweets and treats and stories and poems were shared by all.

My son was Bobafet this year and my daughter joined with two of her friends to be the three muskateers. We had fun putting together their costumes; and, between Juan, Gabi and myself, we were able to pull off a darn good looking muskateer outfit!

I brought Ruben and the three muskateers home from school and they played while I got the traditional chili and cornbread ready. At six, Juan headed out with the kids and the neighbors and I manned the candy bowl. All the festivities were done with the neighbors and extra muskateers back home and our kids in bed by 8:30 whew!

Another Halloween done and gone! Now it’s time to change the decorations over to Fall for Thanksgiving!

I hope you had a great Halloween and are having a great fall!!

Keep it Real!

Merrill

Hey there everyone,

It’s been too long since my last post because it’s been a crazy exciting time these last couple of weeks! I have had just a string of exciting events that I’d love to share with you.

First, RealKidz now has an award winning, phenomenally talented designer, Stephanie Milanowski. Her most recent projects were for Green Daisy, Inc. where she designed, among other things, a super cute line of pajamas. She’s done projects for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Michigan’s own Frederick Meijer Gardens. Scott and I are very excited to have her on board and can’t wait to see what she will create for us!

Second, we have contracted with a great web development firm, MetaSpring, to build out our store and to work with us to create the RealFamz social network. We’re very excited to have these talented people working with us on this project.

Third, we’ve received our first production ready patterns so I’m sourcing fabric and we should see our designs become real clothing very soon!! Woohoo!

Fourth, we have begun conversations with a local nationally renowned children’s hospital to see how they would like to be involved in the social network. I am extremely excited about this opportunity because I feel it is vital to have solid, research-based information available to our parents as they try to incorporate healthy lifestyle choices at home. There is so much competing information out there and much of it is bad, based on opinions not research, and harmful both emotionally and physically.

It has been a wonderfully busy time and I’m excited to see what great things are going to happen in the weeks to come!

As always Keepin’ It Real!!

Merrill