As we near all saint’s day, better known by many as the day after Halloween (all hallow’s eve), many busy moms can be found busy sewing saints costumes for their kids. And then there’s me…here’s what my day looked like, broken down in simple steps, in case you’re crazy and want to try it:

1. Announce to your many munchkins that it is time to pick saints for dressing up.
2. Listen to flurry of excitment and witness many dresses and scarves being pulled out and tried on.
3. Pull out scrap material box and fasten on pretty headscarves with hair clips.
4. Change a diaper and make lunch.
5. Feed and bathe baby.
6. Help older kids research saints online.
7. Help make a harp out of cardboard, tin foil and pipe cleaners.
8. Clean pee off floor and give toddler a bath.
9. Try to coach eldest child through anxiety about her future costume’s potential defects due to my lack of sewing expertise. Fail.
10. Call Grandma for moral support.
11. Make a second lunch for child who missed it due to researching saints and is currently losing marbles.
12. Suggest 20 other costume options. Have them rejected.
13. Feed baby. Try to fashion sheet into nun’s habit. Fail.
14. Clean baby poop off floor. Bathe baby again.
15. Listen to eldest child come up with totally new costume idea (using her own, already made clothes) after you already cut a hole in a sheet. Rejoice as it means you don’t have to sew!
16. Thank God and put in a frozen pizza. Safely stow away costumes in a big bag.
17. Make silly jokes while you do the dishes and smile cause the madness is over…till next year!