October 31st

Busy day ahead. Bullet point blogging commencing:

1. Taekwondo in the morning. Oops. Overslept. Never mind about that one.

2. Regular school work to finish.

3. Regular cleaning / house routine.

4. Parade at Toys 'r Us for the two big girls and their daddy. A new thing we've added this year.

5. Pumpkin soup & harvest salad for supper. The pumpkin soup is a recipe I cut out. You float crescent roll cut outs (in leaf shapes) on the top. We'll see. I really hope it is good. The girls are sceptical.

6. Gram's house for trick or treating. We do this every year. It used to be we would take the Bear with us but he's outgrown us. One of Polly's friends went with us several years in a row, but not this one. Oh well. Polly is still looking forward to tonight. I think she has visions of covering the entire neighborhood at record speed. If she talks her daddy into going with her, the little ones and I may be on our own. Fine by me!

7. The great candy sort.

8. Bedtime snack. (We usually let them have one piece of the candy they just brought home)

9. Bedtime. Ridiculously late for the girls who will be hyped on excitement, adrenaline, sugar, and brisk night air.

And, before I forget, Belated Happy Birthdays to my Grandma (yesterday) and Airman Dan (Monday). Grandma's birthday I remembered in real life. Airman Dan...I did not.

Better get back at it! And if you don't hear from me for awhile you'll know I'm in a chocolate bar induced coma.

A Princess, A Dog, and a Bunny...

Walk into a church. No, this is not at joke. At least, not that kind of joke. Last night was our church's Harvest Party. It's big. Huge. Flooded with kids, candy, and excitement. We do have rules about what type of costume you can wear, so many of the children don't wear their costumes because they would not be appropriate. A lot of children do, though. Ours included. Polly dressed as Princess Leia. I bought the dress as part of an angel costume. We disposed of the Christmas garland type halo, added a belt we already owned, and I bought a long length of fake hair at the beauty supply store. The hair was the best part - tons of fun to do. Polly has always wanted buns. I think she got more than she ever wanted!

Tigger was a dog. The costume was a bit too small, but it's what she wanted and it was $6. Can't beat that. Plus, it actually has battery powered barking. That feature was a real selling point for Tigger. For me, not so much.

Sweet Pea was a floppy eared bunny. She was not really into the whole dressing up thing. Her face is hurting a bit right now, for one (eczema flair up). She was, however, really into the getting candy thing. We found no less than two tootsie rolls with bites out up them. Still wrapped.

We still have a trick or treat parade to look forward to on Friday, followed by our tradition of going to Gram's house and trick or treating her neighborhood, even if The Bear is too old to want to be seen with us.

And we're under orders to bring home "lots of chocolate." Prince Charming's wish is my command.

*I really don't want to get into the whole "Christians & Halloween" discussion right now. If you disagree with us trick or treating, that's fine. I don't like all the negative things about it, either. But we do really like the candy. =)

Name Dropping

My second favorite online activity these days, after blogging of course, is Facebook. I love connecting with people I haven't seen in a long time and checking up on people I see every day. Except, you know, not in a stalker-ish sort of way.

Anyhow, Facebook is interesting. You should try it out. When you do, you will find that lots of notable people, famous people, infamous people, etc. are also on Facebook.

And as of this morning, I am close personal friends with Ken Blackwell. (Our former Secretary of State and he ought to be our governor, but that's another story.)

So watch out, folks, I've got connections.