The Pumpkin Report
Rob - Decided he didn't need one. 0 pumpkins purchased.
Tamra - Mine's in the garden, ready to rot! Two years ago, quite by lazy accident, we figured out that pumpkins are super fun to watch rot. So the tradition continues.
Miciah - "Whatever, Mom. Do whatever you want with it." Yes! 2 pumpkins rotting in the garden! (For those of you who are surprised that my craft-crazed daughter didn't do something more fun with it, you should know that we already carved and painted pumpkins.)
Elijah - He baked it. Made homemade pumpkin pie (with enough pumpkin to make 3 more pies for Thanksgiving!). By himself. Then roasted the pumpkin seeds. And there was enough pumpkin to make a homemade pumpkin soup, too. The kid likes to cook.
Tank - "Let's burn it!" Do you know how long it takes a medium-sized pumpkin to "burn" over a fire? Hours. And it doesn't even really burn. Just slowly, slowly, slowly disappears. He was fascinated. I was fascinated. We are pyros.
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When it was all said and done I couldn't help but feel that this was some sort of Pumpkin Personality Test that I had somehow failed. But at any rate, the results were fun and worth documenting.
So, what would you do with a pumpkin?
2 comments:
Ha ha! That is hilarious. I'd say it def shows all of your personalities! I am super impressed that Elijah is quite the baker. That is a good skill to have...sure to impress the ladies! My kids wanted to bake the seeds after we'd carved ours, at which point Jared said, "Um, you should have told me that BEFORE I threw them all away." :)
Baking the seeds is never worth it. They just don't taste very good. Next year if Elijah wants to do it again, I'll remind him that we threw all but just a few away.
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