Pumpkin Carving

So, in my attempt to be mother of the year or at least get back in the running, I went to Walgreen's and picked up the pumpkin carving kit. I let Zachary pick out which pumpkin we would carve first and what design we would put on it. Needless to say, Zachary picked out the design with the greatest difficulty. Not a problem I thought to myself, I can handle this. Besides, we have the special tools to make this a breeze. Well, Zachary and I used a nail to etch out the design while Kylen played in pumpkin guts. So far so good, now all we have to do is carve it out. Small problem I didn't even get the entire top cut off before both of our handy dandy carving tools were broken. In the end, it took me 2 1/2 hours to carve one freakin' pumpkin. As you probably have guessed by now I did not even attempt to carve any of the remaining three. Next year, we'll stick to pumpkin paint. It's less messy and 100% less frustrating!!