All Hallow's

Hi, and Happy Halloween. All the plans I made for this week and weekend were scrapped at some point, with a few exceptions: Brother came and we carved pumpkins, I made the hash brown soup and a yellow cake with cinnamon apples, and tonight, we will be trick-or-treating. The rest was hashed and re-hashed and became it's own creature and was then slaughtered. (Rather a gory metaphor, but it is Halloween, after all!)

Here are the highlights of what did happen:

Carved pumpkins (from Thierbach Orchards) and had yummy food, as seen above.
Did not, in fact, stay up late and watch Halloween movies.
Only played one board game, and it was Candyland.
Took Brother to the mall....at his request.
Did NOT go to any of the parties we were invited to, even the one I REALLY wanted to, that Brother even said we would go to, but changed his mind closer to time.
Had dinner out with my parents (wasn't expecting that...).
Watched the pilot episode of Arrested Development instead of Halloween movies.
Said an early and not very happy good-bye to Brother this morning, as he was not feeling well.
Watched Little Shop of Horrors. (SO THERE!)

It was a whirlwind, and I feel like I haven't sat down for two minutes since Brother got here, with the exception of the sit down dinner last night.

The kids are all ready for tonight: Abbie has a lovely red wig for her Annie costume, and Grant has his dragon costume. We're going to visit a few houses of people we know, and then pass out candy for the rest of the night. That's really my favorite part. And we can eat apples and watch more of my movies while we do that. I had planned to dress up this year, but with all the sickness, it was not to be.

Did I tell you about Grant's parent teacher conference? First of all, I must brag, briefly. He had top scores in everything. His teacher said his good behavior was encouraging, and that he is reading so well, she is going to start getting him first grade level books. I forgot all the questions I was going to ask her. Yes, all of them. But I did get to see a pumpkin that Grant drew.

I still haven't made a haircut appointment. And I need to make Grant's dentist appointment.

Josh didn't get the job he applied for at work, and we are still trying to figure out if his schedule will be affected by the staffing change.

Haven't thought ahead to this next week, much. Gonna try and vote.....and some other stuff. Can't remember. I wonder if I'm not feeling well?

Well, I'm looking forward to tonight and seeing all the little kids in their costumes. I hope the medium sized kids all have good manners. If they do, I will be more than happy to load them up with sugar!!!

Hope you are all having a great Halloween! Oh! I forgot to make the pumpkin-shaped cookies! I will do that today.