Mac's Jacks

Halloween is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, costumes, and carving jack-o'-lanterns. A-mac, Lil' Lefty and MacDaddy came home from school today and spent all afternoon preparing for tomorrow's festivities. MacDaddy recruited his sisters to help him make his popcorn hands, complete with candy corn finger nails and a spider ring.
Next, it was time to turn each of the three big, orange pumpkins into a one of a kind, Mac created Jack-o-Lanterns. Funny, how some things never change from year to year. MacDaddy still won't put his hands in the pumpkin to pull out the guts and seeds. He says it's gross! Lucky for him, Lil' Lefty thinks that's the best part and pulls double duty de-gutting both her pumpkin and MacDaddy's. Not, only does Lil' Lefty gut the pumpkin, but she also takes great care in separating the seeds from the pulp so that she can bake pumpkin seeds. MacDaddy persuades Lil'Lefty for a handful of seed to throw outside in the dirt to see if pumpkins will grow for next year. A-mac sits, the pumpkin before her, and her creative juices are not flowing. She has already drawn three faces on the pumpkin and still can't figure out what she wants her Jack to look like. All the while, I have the following little pumpkin song going though my head. It has to be from Preston Meadow...Ms. Martha (she was both Lil'Lefty and MacDaddy's Pre K teacher).

Jack-o-Lantern

(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little Jack-o-lantern Fat and Fine.

They picked me off a pumpkin vine.

Halloween is coming don't you know.

Just light my candle and watch me glow.

And without further delay... Introducing the Mac Jacks!