TRICK or TREAT

BOOOOO!!! Did I scare you? No? Well I'll have to try harder next time.

This Halloween seemed to be busier than others in the past. It started in it's normal way...the way every other day seems to start. Getting the kids outta bed, ready for school and out the door. Today was different though because Halloween for LB meant costumes and CANDY!!

The daycare LB attends is at the high school so as a treat on this Halloween, all the kids wore their costumes and went "trick or treating" at the high schools. The classrooms posted signs to let the lil ones know they were welcome to trick or treat in their classroom. I thought it was great. All the "big kids" seemed to really get a kick out of seeing the "lil kids" in their costumes. Let me tell you......those lil kids wracked up on the candy. More candy that my LB needs!! After trick or treating it was back to the daycare for some more fun. Games, play time, and PIZZA for lunch. LB had a great morning and by the end of lunch was ready to come home with mommy and retire to his bed.

Nap time ended with the arrival of BB and BD home from school and work. Now the fun really could begin. It was time to hit the street and score the BIG loot. BB decided this year to dress up as a basketball player - hey it's his costume, he can be what he wants to be. LB wanted to be a cowboy. So with basketball, cowboy hat, boots and 6 shooters we loaded up the truck and off we went.

Well you should know me well enough by now to know that I can't let the kids have all the fun....so Mom dressed up too. What do you ask was I? A witch of course. What comes more natural to me?? lol.

As night approached off we went to scope the houses and score the loot. As BB, LB and Mom went walking around the neighborhood, BD followed behind us in the comfort of his truck, keeping an ever watchful eye on us and scoping out the candy buckets whenever we'd hop back into the truck. For over an hour, we haunted the houses and scored the loot. Popcorn balls, chocolate, Dum Dum's, Pixie stix......every candy imaginable....and it was all OURS!!!!!!!

As the night grew darker, and the temperature grew colder, my little goblins and myself grew tired. We looked over our loot, decided that it was more than any person - or kid - could eat in a day, so we called it a night. Once home, Mom confiscated the candy and sorted it all out and allowed just a few pieces before bed. With the loot safely hidden away for another day, my basketball player and lil cowboy were off to bed, I'm sure dreaming about all that candy and plotting ways to eat as much as possible when Mom's not looking.

Curve Balls

Every now and then, in this game of life, we get thrown a curve ball. Often times we don't see them coming and they smack us right in the nose. When this happens you can do one of two things.....you can stand there staring with blood running from your nose or you can just roll with the punches.

Curve balls come in many shapes and sizes and often at a point in our lives when we feel the most settled. Maybe that's fates way of waking us up.

My curve ball came this past April and like they always do - smacked me upside my head. BD (hence forth referred to as Big Dad) got offered a new job. The job was fantastic. A real move up from where he was at, doing something he really seems to love. I know you're asking yourself at this point...why is this a curve ball. Oh! did I mention yet just WHERE this new job was????? New Mexico. That's right...you read it correctly. Here I was...."x" years old (you didn't really expect me to tell you how old I was did you??) having been born in GA and lived my whole life in GA faced with having to move 1500 miles away. Away from family, friends, pretty much all I knew. Well what could I do...o.k. I'll admit, I stood there for a few second with a blank stare on my face and blood running down my nose - lol. Then I figured "hey, maybe this wont be so bad after all."

So we loaded up the truck and we moved to .........New Mexico. Wished it had been that simple. Through many fights with the moving company and worry about all our stuff making it here (in one piece) we finally made it to the "land of enchantment" and I can honestly say they named that right. It really is beautiful here. Mountains surround us on all side and the sunsets are incredible.

I still miss my family and friends but it's not so bad here after all. So just remember....when life throws a curve ball at you...even if it hits you right in the nose, and you stand there for a few seconds blank faced with blood running down your nose...shake it off, wipe your nose and just roll with the punches.