Allow me to assist. Because if there is one thing I am an expert on, it is jerry-rigging your Halloween costume because you couldn't get it together to actually shop for a real one.

Here we are in 2008, in costumes that serve as a perfect example of the aforementioned jerry-rigging: this year, we were Pete Doherty and Kate Moss. Except when I dressed up as Kate Moss I ended up just sort of looking like I'd done a better-than-average job of getting myself clothed, so I added cat ears and whiskers and called myself Pete Doherty's cat (because, if you recall, at the time he was famous for being a completely atrocious cat owner, which made the whole concept pretty tasteless, but Halloween is a good time for tastelessness - maybe not this much, but some).

Anyway.

Alright, so remember when my basement flooded a few months back? And we had to junk pretty much everything that resided down there?

That was no fun.

It wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been, though, because most of the stuff I really care about - photo albums, special baby clothing, et cetera - is either kept elsewhere or stored in waterproof bins (a spectacular and completely unprecedented moment of foresight and preparedness on my part).

One thing that we did end up having to toss: the boxes filled with our holiday stuff. Our ornaments were in the attic, but the rest of it? Our tree, our little decorative items, our wreath…all gone.

Fantastic new discovery: RUUM, a kids' clothes line that has exactly the kinds of stuff I want to put my son in (for exactly the right price). Favorite pieces: the denim jacket pictured above, their henleys, and a pair of jeans so great I wish it came in Kendrick Size.

Check out the full line here (there's girls' stuff, too).

You should always brake for rainbows.

 Alright, it's officially getting cold out. I cannot tell you how much better a pair of these will make your life (speaking from experience).