Long Time No Post

Yes, I realize it's been 10 months since I posted and I am not even going to try to make up for lost time. Everyone knows what we've been up and has probably seen pictures along the way (I hope).  Anyway, I am going to try to post more regularly again but I also think the time has come to change it a little bit. When I first began this blog, I wrote as if I were Catherine because she was still little enough that I felt I could do that. However, I don't think it makes sense to write in the first person as Catherine anymore - she has her own identity, opinions and ideas and far be it from me to put words in her mouth, so from now on it will just be me, writing as myself. I'm sure one of these days she'll want to start her own blog!

First order of business is Halloween. We celebrated for two weeks and it was great. Our neighbor, Gwyn (Laird & Claire's mom) is a huge Halloween fan, possibly because her birthday is the 30th. They hosted an adults-only party on the 20th. The kids were right next door at our house, watched over by Talia, another neighbor who is 11 and just starting to babysit. It was perfect - she got some experience but all the parents, inlcuding hers, were right next door.

Richard and I threw costumes together. I found an old dress of my mom's from the 1970's and wore my fancy witch hat. Richard, well, I'm not sure what he was. He wore shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a sherriff's badge, kerchief and cowboy hat we had from Laird's birthday party two years ago. The party was a lot of fun for the adults, the kids had a great time hanging out together and watching movies.

The next weekend was another costume party and I told Richard we needed to step it up so I sent out an SOS to friends. My good friend, Michelle, came to the rescue with a couple of beautiful costumes she made - a Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) dress and a Wonder Woman outfit, complete with red boots and the Golden Lasso of Truth! Wonder Woman is a brunette so I bought a wig and voila! Richard's costume came together after I had mine - we ironed a Superman S on a white t-shirt and he wore suit pants, a dress shirt open to reveal the S underneath and I bought him some "nerd" glasses and he was Clark Kent.  We both felt it was the best costumes we've ever come up with - thanks to Michelle.

Catherine had waffled back and forth over what to be for Halloween this year and we ran out of time to have Granny and Auntie J make it so we ended up buying a witch costume and Catherine loved it.  It came with the hat and all we added was her broomstick.

On Halloween day, Richard and I were able to watch the Peabody costume parade, which is always a treat. That night, Richard and Catherine went trick-or-treating with Laird & Claire and their parents, Gwyn & Chris.  Not too far from us, on Argonne Circle (near the church) is ground zero for trick-or-treating for San Roque.  Literally thousands of kids descend on the circle and the houses go all out with decorations. I stayed home and passed out candy - we only had about 60 kids, but that is the most we've had here.  I think more and more kids are finding the circle too crowded. But I'm not complaing - our friends who live just off the circle ran out candy after 1,000 kids!

That's all for now. But I do promise to post more regularly in the future.