Post-Halloween

 I'm trying to remember last week, but aside from Halloween, I'm not coming up with much. I suppose that means life as usual.

Here's Evelyn's costume for Monday morning, for her preschool. (One of the women who works at the preschool told me later that when she'd told Evelyn, "you look gorgeous," Evelyn responded "That's because it's Halloween!")

I tried to liven things up during the day by making a special Halloween lunch (which went mostly unappreciated): apple mouths and sandwiches with Halloween shapes pressed in (the shapes didn't show up well here).

 

I helped out with Andrew's Halloween party--I painted faces. I'd forgotten how imitative five-year-olds are. After one little girl requested a princess (one that didn't even turn out very attractively--simple designs are best for face painting!), I must have had another half dozen requests for the same thing. Oh well, at least they all seemed happy. I use the paints again later to paint Evelyn's face. (I offered to do Andrew's, but he wanted the mask. Of course, he pulled the mask off half-way down the street and didn't really wear it again.)

Of course, the kids were most excited about the actual trick-or-treating. We had dinner, and then I took the kids out around 5:30 (Dan elected to stay and pass out candy). We did have one boy at one of the first houses we came to tell us that we were too early for trick-or-treating, but most people were happy to see the kids. We didn't make it far--our street and part of another street--before heading over to Bubby and Poppy's house.

 

 

Aside from this, we don't have a lot to report. It snowed yesterday, which put a halt on our plans to clean up the yard (hopefully it will warm up again later in the week!). Today, both Dan and I taught in church. This was my first time giving a lesson for the young women. The lesson was on missionary responsibilities, and I dug up a bunch of missionary stuff from my mission, so that was fun. I think it went well, except that I finished the lesson with fifteen minutes left and then found myself filling time with mission stories. The girls here are nice--but they're not super talkative!

Hope all our readers have had a fun, safe week.