Halloween Hangover

I think that's what's going on today. Severe headache, no appetite, tired. The garbage can full of candy wrappers might have something to do with it (at least they're in the garbage, right?).

We survived the annual church chili dinner, complete with kiddie carnival activities and trick-or-treating to all the classrooms. Makai and Ame loaded up their bags, got home, and promptly dumped the contents. They surveyed the loot, threw away all the SweeTarts, offered me some Nerds, and started unwrapping. And eating. And chomping. And drooling. The kitchen floor is sticky and Tevi has chewed gummy something-or-other bits in his hair. Good thing it's Saturday because that's the day that we shine our shoes and we shampoo our hair so we can be ready for Sunday (or however that darn song goes--does it say "mop the floor" somewhere in there?).

But we totally forgot to light our jack-o-lanterns, so we'll welcome the month of November by lighting them up tonight for the first time. So long October. Thank you for being a glorious, beautiful, very fallish, and rather warm month. I'll miss you.

Ame=bunny | Makai=race car driver | Tevi=cow

P.S. Check out what my friend Julie and family dressed up as. Love it!

P.P.S. Another family's theme costumes. What a great idea.