A New Start

I'm not sure whether or not it's appropriate to be making a new start on Halloween or not, but I'm going to throw caution to the wind and do so anyway!

I figured I'd start a blog that would be family-friendly enough to share with our family, but make no mistake -- I titled it the way I did because it's still all about me. ;)

Right now I'm just waiting for Charles to get home so we can finish cleaning before tonight. It seems to be becoming a tradition that we have an impromptu Halloween get-together with friends. Two years ago we had Beth over (I think James may have been out of town?) and this year it's the R family. I told them about our subdivision's community center holding a "safe" trick or treat event, so they're coming over for dinner and then safe trick-or-treating. To be followed by the dads taking the 3yo's out for unsafe (read: traditional knocking on doors of neighbours who we may or may not know) trick-or-treating. We have a ton of retirees in the neighbourhood and they like to give full-size bars. Wouldn't want the kids (yeah, right) missing out on those!

Speaking of ToT, both kids have actually scored on that front already today. We went to CB this afternoon, and the movie store was giving out candy bags that had coupons in them for kids in costume. Francesca wasn't really in costume, but she got one anyway. Adia got complimented on her bat costume, and EVERYBODY loved her bag. (I do too! It's a black background with white skulls on it. Said skulls have red glittering eyes. She picked out the fabric herself!) For her free movie, Adia chose "Dora Saves the Mermaids." The first two episodes on it seemed to work okay, but I think it crapped out on the third.

Also in my scattered thoughts here, I saw that the blood pressure cuff for the Fisher Price doctor's kits tested high for lead. I know that a lot of cheapie dollar store, etc. things have been recalled over the years, because I've been on the CPSC children's recall list for a year or two. But the name-brand stuff scares me quite a bit more. I've already declared this year to be a non-made-in-China Christmas. We'll see how that goes. So far I'm looking at a lot of things in the Magic Cabin catalog. I'll need to make the girls' list earlier if that's the case though, so that things have the chance to get here before Christmas. (As a side note: we have a FP doctor's kit, but fortunately? it's only the red ones that are bad. Adia's is a black cuff.)

Okay, I need to get off my bum and clean, so I'll try and come back to this blog thing later. :)