Halloween

Hi everyone,

Well its Halloween today! But more important its Friday! :) We have never been very big on Halloween around here with our kids...don't get me wrong they have had their share of the candy just not a lot of the holiday per se! We for the most part don't do a lot of trick or treating...a few close neighbors at most if any. Most years the kids have wanted to go to my parents church indoor games/jump house/free food/lots of candy kind of party they throw for the neighborhood. One year we took them trick or treating because they thought they would like to try that ...too much work for the same outcome they thought. :) You see they get as much if not more junk from the other party. We also have had the opportunity to go to my brother n laws work trick or treat party for a couple years. The kids already have soo much candy if we just stayed home tonight and did nothing we would be set, but they enjoy the games and other things at the church as well so we will go there. When Caleb was about 2yrs old we took him to a neighbor or two (the year the boys wanted to go out), what a nightmare that was literally! One house had the super scary thing jumping out of the ground at you and spooky set up ....well the poor kid had nightmares for months...actually he still will not turn off his light since then while falling asleep! Scarred for life I suppose (bad mom)! :(

So its am preschool today, we barely made it again! Youth group on Thursday nights always has the older two boys sleeping in on Friday (they are usually up by 7am). Caleb is not my early riser (at least I have one who is like his mom), he likes to sleep in at least till 9am most days ....so it was rush around again this morning, but he made it with a minute to spare. :) So now we are working like crazy people to get as much done as we can while he is gone! Homeschooling while he is at school is sooo much easier! We get by with him here too but it is more productive while he is away to be truthful.

Well I am needed to move on mow...independent work time is over! :)

Until next time....