Halloween

Halloween was great. I hope all of you had a fabulous one too. 

I spent the morning volunteering at Navarre's party at the Halloween Bingo table. I had 4 groups of kids each for 30 minutes. Each little one, won a game and received a prize of candy, then when they won again they received high fives from everyone at the table. Making this last for 30 minutes was a bit of a challenge. I was happy I could break up the time with questions, having them tell me more about their costumes, where they were trick-or-treating and more. The last group was a handful as by that point they were wired from all the candy they'd eaten. I was all smiles, so much fun.

 

Later after finishing some paperwork at home the boys and I carved the Jack-O-Lanterns. Navarre drew an outline of a bat and Anthony and I figured out the best way to do a cat. They loved that we had grown our own on our farm. So cool. Next year I'm planning on growing a lot of different types including Cinderella and white pumpkins. The kids want to try growing a giant one. We'll see.

My boys are completely into Star Wars right now. Such a proud mommy, yes I'm a geek! Last year they were both clones and this year Anthony was a Jedi and Navarre was the Red Clone Leader. My friends have Netflix in Halifax and the boys are always so excited to come to game night and watch it upstairs while the rest of us are gaming. I think they are old enough to have me read them The Hobbit now so next Halloween maybe we will see a little more variety.

Mahone Bay is a wonderful place to Trick-Or-Treat. It is very picturesque and the beautiful houses are all quite close together. The boys cleaned up in an hour and a half. They have now organized all their candy and we've thrown out the rejects. This leaves them with two huge bags. Oh my. We'll see how long it lasts. It's not the boys I'm worried about, it's me.