I love halloween, it's just one of those holidays that don't cost us much but that makes the kids so happy! :)
Today they went to daycare in the morning, it was adorable to see all the little friends dress up and even the caretakers were dressed up. The kids then went trick or treating around the community center, the elders had a special holiday lunched served and were so happy to see the kids all dressed up. The kids all got candies to bring back home. :)
Being that the wireless keyboard isn't working anymore and that a keyboard missing letters N and B just pisses me off. LOL! I bought a new keyboard today, hey it's a PRIORITY! Ok? ;) So I could have bought a boring regular keyboard, but call me bold, I didn't. I chose a translucent blue keyboard, it's made by Yahoo or at least has a special Y! button. I found the blue cute, makes me think of when the 1st IMac came out. This keyboard does "click, click, click" when I type though! I wasn't use to the sound anymore but I'll survive, since it's sooooo cute! ;)
As a special treat for supper we were invited at McDonald's by my mom. The kids got dressed up again, this morning Zoe was a friendly witch and Lucas a clown. Then this evening Zoe was a "fisherwoman" and Lucas a magician. We had to think up of costumes that easily go over their winter coats. It was so cold but the kids never complained about it, they were dressed very warm. The excitement of the day probably made the cold more bearable too. ;) OH! Carl went as a mechanic! lol! I didn't get dressed up, maybe next year.
We only trick or treated on two streets, we usually do about 4 streets. We did get plenty of candies, almost the same amount as the previous years. I think people were pretty generous or they were freezing so wanted to give out all of their candies quickly! LOL! We had a BLAST!!!! It was somuch fun, for the 1st time in Zoe's 3 years of trick or treating, Carl was not working so he got to come and have fun with us. He got to see how excited his daughter was at each door that opened to give her candies. She was eager for Lucas to walk faster so she could ring at the doors. She'd whine when kids would run past her to get at the doorsteps quickly and then she'd loose the pleasure or ringing the bell. She did patiently wait until we got home to eat a few treats, 1 small bag of chips and 1 mini-chocolate bar. After 90 minutes of walking outside Lucas was tired and Zoe decided she had enough. It was ok, still early enough that we could've gone a few more houses but she was happy with what she got. The loot included a total of 58 mini-chocolates, 12 small bags of chips or cheese sticks, 96 cents and plenty of candies.
The memories of this year's Halloween will be happy ones. We all had a great time and the kids were so happy, it was nice to see daddy running from house to house with them too. He couldn't wait to start trick or treating today. ;)
Lucas fell asleep at 07:30pm!!! Now, THAT'S a miracle, he did walk all that time and he usually sits in the stroller when we go out shopping or from point A to point B. We did realize that he's quite the walker and will have to let him walk more from now on. People are impressed when they learn how far Zoe will walk. She can walk more than many adults I know, without even whinning about it. We all like to walk, well when dh met me, he had to learn to like it! ;) We walk to everywhere we want to go, it's either you walk or you stay home. We don't have a car by choice and also by the fact that no one has a driver's licence here. Carl does know how to drive though. I took a driving class once but I am truely a passenger person, too dangerous for others when I'm behind the wheel.
Well now it's my turn to be eager to jump into my bed to go SLEEP! lol! ;) All this walking outside in the fresh air, luckily I never got cold either, I did have my hat and mittens on. If only I could knit my own mittens, maybe they could match the scarf I'm making! :) The scarf is finally looking more than just a sampler of different stitches. LOL! Once I decided what I really wanted to do, I didn't feel like ripping out all the rows I had already made. Anyway it will be a checker textured scarf, knit 4, purl 4 with knit 1 on both ends, pretty simple, I've decided that doing so for 6 rows makes somewhat squares, they sure didn't look like squares after 4 rows. Anyway now I'm alternating, after the 1st six rows I'm now doing purl 4, knit 4 and still knit 1 on each side as a slim border. So that is today's knitting content! :)
Off to sleep, tomorrow I need to run out and find any super sales of mini-chocolate bars. Those are GREAT pick me ups when:00 PMSing! HAHAHA! ;)
hugs,
Posted by Jo at October 31, 2002 10:20 PM