Trick-or-Treat!

(please notice my little black kitty cat Halloween earrings...

you can't really see them can you?

They're cute, I promise.)

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Well! I didn't even think I was going to celebrate but this family really likes Halloween and they're pretty into it. We only just bought the pumpkin this afternoon at the grocery store and as soon as it started to get dark outside Curtis was saying "We have to get that pumpkin carved so people know we have candy!!" I figured pumpkin carving must fall under my job description so I rose to the challenge.

Not bad, huh? I worked real hard. I hadn't properly carved a pumpkin in ages and it was actually pretty fun. I was tempted to get real creative but knew that I didn't really have time for that and didn't want to disappoint myself. We popped a candle in and put him outside to greet out trick-or-treaters.

When we still hadn't had any trick-or-treaters at about 7pm Curtis was starting to sound very disappointed. We bought SO much candy at the store today and it was sitting and waiting in these cute little pumpkin buckets. Curtis had put out some decorative witches and even brought the gargoyles back out of the garage (I personally really like the gargoyles -- they're griffins. I think Kimberly must have hidden them in the garage before her parents came into town). But, finally, the cute little kids started ringing the door-bell. I think we've had about 30 come by. It's fun. They have cute costumes and they're all very polite and say thank you about 4 times before leaving.

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In the first group of boys that came by one of them said "Are you American?" and I said "Yes, I am!" and he said "Everyone is! Why are they all American?" and his friend said "because it's an American holiday, stupid!" And it was really funny.

Lauren and her friend Anna went trick-or-treating a little bit ago (basically wearing their school uniforms and some 3-D classes with the lenses popped out) and they're currently off to Blockbuster. I have requested something NOT scary.

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And I am sitting here enjoying some peppermint tea, letters from Steven and Paige and my new book -- October Sky. I'm really tempted to read it all tonight since when I wake up it will be November and the book is about October... We'll see what happens.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!