I was hoping the Halloween festivities from over the weekend would be enough for DD but she really wants to knock on some doors tonight, and I can't say I blame her. So maybe we'll drive over to a more family friendly neighborhood tonight where the houses are a little closer together, closer to the street, with more street lights and do a little walking.
Happy date-a-versary, erbear! Nutella no bakes sound divine, but I'm obsessed with Nutella.
H is working from home today because he didn't want to deal with his commute while trying to get home in time for ToT tonight, which worked out for me because he dropped DS off at day care. Apparently he made "the world's saddest face," but didn't cry. It also meant we got to sleep in an extra 20 minutes, which was much appreciated because DS decided to wake up around 3:30, and while he thankfully went back to sleep fairly easily my brain at that point decided it was done sleeping, so I lay in bed for over an hour wide awake before I finally dozed off again.
Post by pghtruelove on Oct 31, 2016 7:21:17 GMT -5
Looking forward to toting tonight! I spent all day yesterday feeling cleaning my living room and an hour of J being awake has already sabotaged all my work. She's being extremely cute though, she saw a picture of SO and me and has been carrying it around kissing and hugging it yelling "mama" and "dada".
Post by mrsmonogrammed on Oct 31, 2016 7:25:26 GMT -5
I'm off today and planning to take DD to her library group, ToT at my grandparents so they can see her costume, and then home to ToT a few houses on the cul-de-sac before handing out candy at our house:)
Post by billyhorrible on Oct 31, 2016 7:41:32 GMT -5
I'm going to try to get to work early today so I can leave early. Of course I also decided to make jack o lantern pumpkin scones, so we'll see how that plays into my leaving early plans.
LBB's preschool has their halloween party today, no costumes allowed. They'll make masks and "eat orange cookies." LBB and I made monster smile apple slices last night to bring in.
DH is taking off work early and picking up the boys so when I get home we can eat dinner and head out for trick or treat. One of LBB's friends is coming with us this year.
Post by holliberry28 on Oct 31, 2016 8:13:51 GMT -5
Our building is having a Halloween Party in one of the common rooms in the lobby that starts at 6, so I'll take M for half an hour or so. There is no where to trick or treat by me, because it's all apartment buildings, not that he would without tears. I just hope he doesn't cry later.
DS was so confused this morning. We were getting all of our stuff together to go to school, and I grabbed his costume. He thought we were ToTing this morning. We had some ugly crying on the way to school, but he pulled it together. DH is going to pick up the kids early since their daycare is closing early. Hopefully he'll get dinner started for them and then I can eat when I get home. My parents and my sister and her kids are coming over tonight since we live in a better neighborhood for ToTing.
DS was so confused this morning. We were getting all of our stuff together to go to school, and I grabbed his costume. He thought we were ToTing this morning. We had some ugly crying on the way to school, but he pulled it together. DH is going to pick up the kids early since their daycare is closing early. Hopefully he'll get dinner started for them and then I can eat when I get home. My parents and my sister and her kids are coming over tonight since we live in a better neighborhood for ToTing.
We dealt with this also this morning. E wanted to put on her costume and wear it to school which is not allowed (they have to bring in their backpacks too). Tears galore and lots of screaming. We somehow managed to get to school on time though.
I think the kids are on to something with this whole ToT in the morning idea. They would certainly nap better afterwards and mom could eat candy the rest of the day. I see no downside here.
I'm kinda hoping he's too excited to nap at school so he passes out tonight.
Post by musicfrk2002 on Oct 31, 2016 9:16:40 GMT -5
Up at 4 am. Again. Today was because he leaked though, not from teething. I'm gonna need all the caffeine this morning and again on the drive back tonight.
I need to call my doctor about this cold I've had that is probably more than that now since it's been 2 full weeks of coughing. Ear pain and a sore throat this morning, so that's fun.
Post by sugarkissed on Oct 31, 2016 9:25:02 GMT -5
Happy Halloween!
We just had breakfast and A grabbed her bucket and asked to go ToT'ing right now. Haha. The sun is barely even up, poor kid.... it's going to be a long day! We have no plans today until this evening, does anyone know of fun Halloween activities that don't involve leaving the house? Haha.
Happy Halloween! DS's classroom Halloween party is today, all the kids went to school in costume. They were all dancing to Monster Mash when I left.
This is the first year since DS has been born that the weather has been nice enough to trick or treat! FINALLY! Kristykristyleelee, our neighborhood does the same thing, everyone meets at the park for a group picture! Love it
Happy Halloween. It's super misty and eerie looking out this morning. DS is watching Halloween cartoons. DD still has a low fever and is cranky and permanently attached to me. I know she's sick when she takes her first nap of day at 730am after waking at 630.
I need to figure out TOTing with DS tonight. How to do it with a sick baby.
SO tired. It was such a long night. C was up off and on all night. The dog decided to bark in the backyard every 10 minutes and my Dh didn't get home from work until after 2 am.
But, we've got family pictures this afternoon at 4:30 and then rushing home to get C dressed and take her out to a few houses for ToTing. I'm excited. We've been trying to teach her how to say Trick or Treat. She says Teet Teet! That'll work!
We just had breakfast and A grabbed her bucket and asked to go ToT'ing right now. Haha. The sun is barely even up, poor kid.... it's going to be a long day! We have no plans today until this evening, does anyone know of fun Halloween activities that don't involve leaving the house? Haha.
You've already done pumpkins, right?
I would just do lots of Halloween crafts. We do them every weekend. We've made spiders out of pom poms and foam paper, skull "stained glass," coloring, boo-nanas, ghost shaped flashlights, and turned oranges into jack o lanterns.
You could also set up an old school "haunted house" with eyeballs (grapes), worms (spaghetti) blood (warm ketchup) bones (pretzels) and brains (jello)
Last night H and I booked a weekend trip to Toronto in May to watch the Jays and go to the Falls! I am SO excited even though it's 7 months away lol!! I've never been there before! It's a super rush trip in and out just to use up some air miles now that they expire, but it's just the two of us and I found direct flights so we can spend as much time as we can there in 2 days. We are gonna knock off some awesome bucket list items!! Plus this is so embarrassing but I'm pretty sure the last time we had a child free night together was 2 years ago this month in Seattle 😱 So we'll rock it a couple more thousand KM the other direction to get another night away lol!
DS is at preschool right now, trick or treating around town this afternoon, and my parents have started coming over to our place for Halloween supper the last few years since they don't get much for trick or treaters out at the farm anymore. Just above freezing by this afternoon, but it didn't feel too bad out at the school this morning.
I got a treat today! I got to be the teacher that went to the pumpkin patch with my itty-bitty special ed students. We went on a hayride, picked pumpkins, pet and fed animals. It was so fun to do something super different with them.
Eta: This means I've gone to 3 different pumpkin patches in 4 days. I've got my fall festivities filled.
Post by jillywilly on Oct 31, 2016 13:43:44 GMT -5
I came up with not one, but two ideas that were really well-received by our vice president that manages production today. One minor, but one bigger one. Now to put them into action and hope they pan out... but feeling pretty good about myself for a moment at least
Post by heartofglass on Oct 31, 2016 14:17:25 GMT -5
Finally was able to finish A's car seat poncho last night. It took a lot of hand sewing on my part because I'm not too good with a sewing machine. I want one now.
That turned out great heartofglass! Here is where I admit I went ahead and ordered one off etsy last week. My mom still says she wants to give it a shot so I'm going to have her do one for DS when she finds some extra time.
Then Comes Family, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising
program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.