Well Hello November

We’ll see if I can pull of this whole NaBloPoMo thing again. I can’t even remember if I tried last year or not. Ah the wonders of old age. This will be tough as my life has become crazy busy and there are conferences to attend and papers to write (one of which I should be working on right now) and birthday’s to celebrate (I can’t believe my little BoBo is going to be 3).

Well what would a November 1 post be without gratuitous shots of kids in Halloween costumes and a Halloween update.

Here is the kids’ haul from two nights of trick or treating. I know and the photo is deceiving as it looks small-but let me asure you it weighs about 7lbs. We went to Beverly Shores, Indiana for the weekend–as my brother and his partner have a house there and they do a big Halloween shindig. The trick or treating caravan is insane–28 houses and a large mix of golf carts and cars. It was crazy and everyone in Beverly Shores has about 25 narrow steps up to their front door with swams of kids big and little clamoring up and down–piling in and out of the car. It was a blast–but tiring.

We then met back at the park to watch a movie, have a few drinks, make smores and eat wood-fired pizza from a truck–really a truck. They turn around good pizza in two minutes. It’s pretty awesome. We then snuggled up to watch Young Frankenstein. It was a really nice night.

The drive home in the morning from Indiana was a bit long, but the kids were awesome and excited to get home in time to trick or treat again. Because who doesn’t need to do that again–aside from my kids who don’t even really like candy.

Zoë who is all girl–wore two different costumes for each of her trick or treating events–a fairy and Cinderella. She is too cute. Noah was happy to be Ironman. I managed to not eat my weight in candy so that is a very good thing.