01 NOVEMBER 2007
Is it over yet? Whew, what a day! The day started fresh with both girls running around and demanding to wear their costumes. I wasn’t about to let them ruin those custom-made costumes during breakfast. {Yes, the girls’ costumes were handmade by me. Now this doesn’t mean I designed and sewed up some fancy attire. Instead I scoured Michael’s for cheap and easy ways to put together a lady bug and cat costume. I must say, Michael’s came through except I did have to go to the Halloween Store for the cat ears and tail (and bowtie?!?).} I made them wait until it was almost time to take Annie to school. Annie’s school had a day planned with lots of events including a parade, magician, and parties. I was assigned to bring cookies sans chocolate or nuts. Sugar cookies were the only thing I could think of without those ingredients that I could “make” (make meaning I bought the pre-mixed Pillsbury dough). Fortunately, Mike and I had a frozen batch of butter cream frosting from a previous event, I decorated the cookies with orange, green, and black frosting of random designs. Mimi and I stayed for most of the events at school, but a headache insisted that we skip the magician and head home for lunch.
We were invited to the Chesler’s for trick-or-treating and dinner. I made a spooky, cemetary cake to bring along. The Parks were there as well with baby dressed in a cow costume. Brady decided he would dress up as a kangaroo this year. Mike brought along his stash o’ ‘staches to share with the other boys. The occasion called for Mike to also wear his jumpsuit. Well, there was no excuse this time to not let him wear it. After dark we headed out for trick-or-treating. Matt, Trang, and Brady started out with us, but Brady went into scream-mode after two houses. Annie was very focused on visiting as many houses as possible. As soon as she received her candy from the current house, she would immediately exclaim, “Hurry, let’s go to the next house!” She said this sometimes while the owner of the current house was still standing there. We had to keep reminding her what to say each time someone opened the door instead of just immediately grabbing for the goods. Mimi caught on pretty quickly and was soon shouting “to the next house” along with Annie. Those pesky kids! Everyone started to get chilly and tired and hungry (we hadn’t eaten dinner yet), so we headed back to the Chesler’s. It was after 7 p.m., and we were all famished and happy to devour hamburgers, hot dogs and fries. Even the girls finished their meals in record time. We went home soon after and got the girls to bed around 9:30 p.m. I was a complete zombie after all was said and done.
