We did not carve our pumpkins this year, we went with the plastic plug-in and glow kind. This was to save time...having a little one certainly changes things.
Initially we did not plan on taking JMS door to door. Then, we decided, ah well the dog needs a walk...and JMS is actually tolerating the costume, so let's give it a try. We started off slow...and the first neighbor put two pieces of candy in his Elmo bucket. JMS took each piece and put it back in her bowl. Then he said, "tank you!" It was super funny. The next house...he accepted the candy, and said "tank you!" Then, at the end of the drive way he gave me (mommy) the candy to put into my bag. This trick lasted for about ten houses...and then he got greedy and it turned into....2 for you, 1 for me. When we got home, all the candy went into the bowl of candy we were handing out ourselves. Besides the fit he pitched, he never knew that he had candy. I'm such a mean mommy. Are you kidding me...he isn't even 2 yet!
Our halloween was otherwise pretty lame. We had our doorbell pushed maybe 4 times. This is super different than when we lived in Olympia. Tanya (super neighbor) reports that they had 30o visitors this year! How did she know this, you ask? Because Miss Carol (our other super neighbor) bought 3 bags of 100 pieces, and only gave out one piece to each child (stingy, eh). But...you now can understand why I called our Halloween here in KY...."LAME."
Ok, on other fronts, my sister (firstie at WP) had branch night tonight. Drum roll please.....she was branched Medical Service Corps. This was her first choice, so thank you for your prayers.
My parents will be visiting my brother and his family this week in Hinesville GA. I look forward to posting photos of the family visit here in a week or two.
And, as far as work...holiday traffic has picked up. We have all of our holiday displays up and as far as the new products....I must say the glade scented oil - apple cinnamon is absolutely wonderful. (I'm smelling it as I type.) What are customers looking for...well, yesterday it was bamboo sheets(yeah 40% bamboo 60% cotton), vacuum cleaners, toothpaste, and trash bags. I think our toothpaste and trash bags are just in the wrong place in the store b/c folks always have a difficult time finding these two items. Oh, and if you go shopping...please "dummy cord" all of your significant others to you b/c again, folks are still losing each other in the store.
(for the non-Army types..."dummy cord" means to tie strings to everything and the other end to yourself so you don't lose the item)
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yes, we did notice your absence. I was going to give you a break because of work though. Like the good witch shirt... so did you get that one because they were all out of the wicked witch ones?? KIDDING! Good for Peg, I hope she enjoys the MSC more than I did :) Semi-kidding. Joshua's in his room clanking his sippy cup across the crib bars like a prisoner (he woke up in the middle of his nap so I threw some milk in there so I could get another couple hours out of him :) J & Z are all out of whack b/c of daylight savings too.
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