And now it's November.
We've celebrated the last soccer game of the season and we have 1 week left of cheer before we can officially celebrate a "no sport" season. Hoo yeah.
Kayla decided that she doesn't really like cheer afterall, so I see us going back to soccer in the spring. Joey wants to try baseball. I want to let him try baseball. Originally I thought I'd sign him up in town so he could play with the kids he goes to school with... however I still have some details to flesh out on this plan. I know it'll cost more, but it appears to also be more time consuming, which just isn't going to work for me. But until I have all the details in hand, we're holding judgment. I have until Jan or Feb to do this. Yes, folks, spring sports start in Feb here because... we don't have winter. Or what the rest of the world calls winter. What we call winter, Canada calls perfect sun-bathing weather. It's all perspective.
So, since Joey's the 2nd shortest kid on the team and doesn't know that he'd probably like basketball, we're skipping basketball. Since Kayla isn't going to do basketball cheer (even if she wanted to.. we're not.) I have a blissful 3 months of no running around to sports. (ahhhh)
The looking for a job thing hit a grinding halt. Or rather, I keep applying and get zero. ZERO response. I got excited when I got an email saying "we're going to contact the most qualified candidate in 10-12 weeks" seriously, this is SLOW going. As a result kids 1-3 are no longer enrolled in afterschool care and JM is in his last month of preschool, since I had to give a month notice.
He of course has been complaining that he doesn't want to go. Everyday has been a different reason. Last week it was because they have to sit "criss cross applesauce" (aka indian style from when I was a kid) and he doesn't like that, that he doesn't like the work part, and that he doens't like the nap part (usually I pick him up before nap since I'm not working.. however one day he did go for 1/2 of nap time since I had an eye dr apt..) This week it's he doesn't like the singing, he doesn't like the sharing and he doesn't want to talk to the class. He only goes 3 days. Anyway.. if he wanted to go, I can send him to the 1/2 day kindergarten program they're starting here in Jan. I don't plan on that. I'm planning on him being home with me til Sept. Unless a job of some sort shows up.
At this point I'm not counting on it.
On the mini farm front, the last sick chicken is still living. The two younger ones haven't started producing eggs yet and the sick one production has slowed down with cooler weather, so we're actually out of eggs. And I'm shopping for 3 more young chicks. We're so sick of eggplant and they're really little you can do to preserve it, so Larry and the kids have had a blast with launching them over the wall into the back not-our yard area. Rabbits appear to really like them.
Not ours, he's fussy.
Halloween came and went. Along with 1000 or more kids in the neighborhood. The funny thing is the old WW2 vet who orchestrates closing the road put out a notice to the neighbors, asking for volunteers for the 2 hours of appointed trick or treating time. At the end he said at 8:00 he was going to go around the neighborhood and tell everyone trick or treat was over. At 8:05 he was walking past our house announcing trick or treat was over, and the parents looked at him in disbelief and argued the houses still had lights on. The neighbors across the street and we looked at each other, shut the door and turned off the lights. By 8:30, heard some teens making a ruckus in the road "what the heck, how can the whole neighborhood be closed for trick or treating?!" lol. Lemme tell you, sunshine, it's a conspiracy. And not a very secret one. Besides, we had 5 pieces of candy left at 8:05. Lousy ones, at that.
Anyway.. with halloween here comes alot of candy for the kids to consume. Normally they're ok about it because we've threatened if they act out or wont' eat real food they won't have unhindered access to their candy. However this year on daylight savings morning, when in theory we could have slept in an hour.... Joey and JM were eating candy and chasing each other around the house at 5 am. (6am if you look at the old time) Which, you might think is an ok hour for a child to be up. I do not. Especially since I wake them at 6:30 for school and get a whole lot of "I'm too tired to wake up" attitude. Harrumph. I now have control of their candy. And none of them were orbs of sunshine this am at 7:30 or 6:30.. (depending on which clock you looked at..)
Other than that, things are the same nuttiness. Kayla has made countless more videos trying to top the last one. She's been picked from the kids at church to be one of the kids on the worship video the church is producing. She'll have her next 30 minutes of fame in the next 2 months. They hand picked those who love being on stage and approached the parents. It involves letting her learn new songs and motions and taking her to the taping some time around Thanksgiving. Our church has an amazing video production staff, so it'll be interesting to see.
And if it's interesting enough and I have enough time I'll put it up here.
We went to the Marine Corps ball. I've decided that my father should go to it. He'd be far more into the pomp and history that I am. As it is, my brain wouldn't shut up. They walk in all solemnly with a cake on wheels and it looked like they were wheeling in a casket.. it's THAT somber a ceremony. It's supposed to be a birthday party, for crying out loud. The ceremony part comes off with the festivity of a funeral. Cept a good portion of the guys are drunk. So an Irish funeral. We left before the excessively festive part. (aka drunken dancing) Because we're too dang old to play like we're 21.
But here's evidence. We dressed up, and Larry still fit in his uniform.
And since I had the camera out, here's the pictures from Halloween.
Note the lack of theme here. Some families go with a theme. We go with "what we find on clearance the year before mixed with what can we throw together with minimal effort.." Sonia really really wanted to be a bunny. I got the head from ebay. I was going to dress her in white sweatshirt and sweatpants but since I couldn't find any in her size but DID find a big furry dog outfit, we just cut off the head of the dog, so she could look like a rabbit. kinda.
Kayla was the snow white costume we found mid-nov last year for $2, JM was the power ranger he had to have for $1 and Joey's still batman from last year since it still fit. Besides, Batman is timeless/classic. Actually. I guess I DO have a theme. It's cheap and easy. Kinda like my meal planning. At least I'm consistent in some areas.
And maybe a few from soccer....?
That's Joey AND Sonia in the same picture below
