FORTY-FOUR

Me and The Kragle at our ward trunk-or-treat. The glow stick was V's highlight.

2014 week forty-four

Halloween week and, what's this?, cool weather! Hooray for long-sleeved shirts!

I suddenly have a toddler. As she gets older and bigger I love her so much more every day. 

Hooray this cat has no diseases! First Vet visit was a success. She was really sad for the rest of the night though and stayed in this kitten cardboard comfort circle.

All my motherly dreams are coming true: Charlie Brown, Autumn, Hand knitted  sweaters.

When you are in our bathroom, watch out for the cat who hides behind the curtain waiting to attack.

This week was Halloween. We love Halloween. We love making fun costumes and eating candy every day and watching Halloween movies and making donuts for trick-or-treaters. The last two years we have done donuts in my in-law's neighborhood. Last year we went through over 400 donuts. So this year, we decided to do it in our neighborhood to meet some neighbors and bring some fun to our neck of the woods. I spent all day happily cleaning the house, and mixing and cutting out donuts. I cut out and froze over 650 donuts. We had a delicious dinner of a traditional Irish Halloween potato dish (surprise, it was potatoes and cabbage! But you're supposed to leave some out for the fairies, so you know, it was 100% Irish) and trout with mustard and oats. My in-laws brought over the cotton candy machine, we had lights and music and a toddler running around screaming with joy, and were open for business at 630pm. We had 12 trick-or-treaters. 12. We ended up frying up about 75 or so donuts and we ate most of them (they are small, ok?), and left the rest in the freezer. Luckily they keep and are easy to thaw and fry whenever you want, but seriously neighborhood?! Apparently they all ship out to the richer parts of town... Oh well. Next year we'll set up again at the in-laws. In the mean time, anyone want 500 frozen donuts? We ended the night watching the Woman in Black. Yes it was terrifying, yes I dreamt about it all night -though it was a weird hybrid with Downton Abbey, BUT I have the nicest and most conscientious husband who spent the whole movie poking me when to close my eyes, so it wasn't that bad. Until next year October!

In October any wonderful and unexpected thing might be possible -The Witch of Black Bird Pond