Halloween!

We had a fun and busy Halloween. Lear's preschool had a costume parade in the morning, in which about thirty children, their parents, siblings, and one teacher whose face was covered in cold cream and hair was in curlers descended upon Macey's grocery store begging for candy. We could see the dread and sheer horror in the eyes of the people working there. Herein lies the real reason Halloween is scary: hundreds of hyperactive children in disguise hunting rabidly for sugar with the full support and consent of their supposedly responsible parents. I'm not sure how Miss Charri got permission to bring this horror upon the poor unsuspecting grocery workers, but I'm sure they're carefully reconsidering for next year.

Next, I brought the Transformer and cheerleader to Cory's office for their Trick-or-Treat party. I guess that they were all eager to see our kids, because Lear was only two when Cory left ADP the last time, and Ella wasn't born yet. They had a great time, and this is where we got most of the candy for the day. When it was actually evening and Trick-or-Treat time, we only went to about five houses. We ended the evening at Cory's grandmother's house, where we saw the kid's two little cousins: Danika was a hula girl, and Aryanna was a pumpkin. (Did I mention that Devin and Kelly had their little cutie last Monday? Cory's parents are positively drowning in little granddaughters, and are absolutely loving every minute of it.)

Finally, I was a poll worker for the election yesterday. I had to report for work at 5:30 AM! For those of you who know me pretty well, this will be a shocker: Tia up before sunrise? Conscious? Intelligible? Working? Yes, it is true. I didn't drive into any parked cars or trees on my way there, and as far as I know, I didn't violate any voting laws either in my predawn state. And it was boring! I think everyone must have voted early, because we had about a twenty minute line for the first hour or so in the morning, and then maybe ten to fifteen people an hour for the rest of the day. We had about 265 voters total, out of 890 registered voters in our precinct (the 265 doesn't include early, absentee, and mail-in voters, so the turn-out was probably better than that). It was interesting to take part in the machinations of democracy, which I admit I did solely for the money, which will partially fund Christmas.

Ella quote: "I a cheer-lee-low! Lear a Tan-fow-dow!"

Lear quote: "Mommy, I'm tired of candy." Shocker!