Halloween...

I regret to inform you that my computer has passed away.  And in doing so, I have lost all photos going back to Margo being born!  The horror of it all has not truly set in, but I have had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach for quite some time now and I think that is why I have neglected my blog entries.   For those of you who are computer savvy and are wondering why I had not "back up" the answer is--I am NOT computer savvy and I just assumed my Mac stuff was saved up in the "cloud" that exists out there for me.  Laugh if you will, but that is how primitive my knowledge of all things techy truly is!  With all that being said, I am trying to get back on track and have  some catching up to do.

Halloween....what a strange holiday full of strange traditions that we celebrate every October 31!  We teach our children not to talk to strangers and not to take food from strangers, yet once a year that all goes out the window.  As I'm sure you are picking up on via my tone here, Mekdes was thoroughly confused by this holiday.  What do you mean we dress up in funny outfits and people give us candy?   We do what with pumpkins?  You expect me to put my hand in this goo?!

The big day had finally arrived and I was dropping Mekdes off at preschool for the Halloween parade.  She was commenting on everyone looking "weird"as we pulled into the drop off line.  After going over what was going to happen at school that day (for the 100th time), Mekdes looked at me and said "Ok, so when do I take off my shirt?"!  Costumes, putting them on, taking them off, using good manners, everyone looking weird....it was all too much to compute!!!  I told her to keep her shirt on and that all she has to do is put on her flower wings and she is in costume and ready for the parade.  "Mom, I've got it!" she shouted as she very independently jumped out of the minivan and walked over to get in line for school.  It was definitely a Halloween to remember!

Smurfette, Hippie, Freshman, Mouse and Flower