Category Archives: halloween

Wordless Wednesday

My brain was so done this week… I was lesson planning and kept staring at the same page for almost thirty minutes…
Completely unrelated to the above, this weekend I got this for my dresser… it holds my necklaces so they don’t have to be sprawled out everywhere… I have been wanting one of these for years!
My old coworker, Marian, came by my office on a surprise visit last night, with many butterfly gifts and books for me and an invitation to a wonderful dinner at the French Connection… Here are tiny Duck shaped chocolates and (not in the picture) Butterfly Kiss pinot grigio, eclipse dark chocolate bars, and kitty stationary… (oh my!)
A coffee cup sleeve she saved for me so I can pin up above my desk for artistic purposes…
A hand decorated match book with tiny butterfly aphorisms inside…
And feminist literature in German and French…
Thank you Marian!!!

I should have posted these last week… would have made more sense, but on Halloween they made spooky spider cookies at day care…

Arick and I took them Trick or Treating that night… Fairy Kitty Princess…
And a Duck…
On Sunday I took them with my mom to Griffith Park…. They rode the ponies….
Then we all went on the train… My mom and Ally rode in the front as we crossed the miniature Golden Gate Bridge…
Past the replicas of a gold mining town….
Ducky and I sat right behind…

Ally Cat Strikes Again

I am taking my daughter trick or treating for the first time tonight. I am super excited. Probably more than she is. In fact, considering she is only nineteen months old, there is a pretty good chance she is not very excited at all since she does not know what Halloween is really. I have tried explaining it to her, but I might as well tried explaining nuclear fission (which I didn’t because I only understand about half of that myself).
She is going to be a kitty again. The costume was adorable on her last year, but she was too young to really be shown off, so we are doing it again. Hopefully.
I say hopefully for a few reasons. First, she has stranger anxiety. It takes her fifteen to twenty minutes to warm up to people, which is not really conducive to trick or treating that is more like candy hit and run. Can you imagine spending close to half an hour at each house?
Second, I got a call from day care earlier today. She is not feeling well. My husband left work early to pick her up, and we are investigating the severity of it. If she is really not feeling well, then we have to call it a night and Munchie will get some TLC while recuperating.
I am hoping for the best.  In the meantime, I really look forward to seeing all the neat Halloween costumes others will be wearing. Candy at our house!
Are you and/or your kids dressing up tonight? I want to hear about it!
P.S. That is really a picture of my daughter last year.