Halloween Postponed

Halloween has been postponed until Monday, Nov. 5 due to storm Sandy. We readied ourselves for a week or more without power. Last year, during tropical storm Irene, we lost power for several days and all the news reports gauged Sandy to be much worse. We are so pleased to report that we made it through the storm without losing power. Our phone and internet were out, but not even for an entire day. Still, our area did receive damage. School has been cancelled the past three days and 80% of the town is out of power. For safety reasons Halloween is postponed.

Our kids have already had a chance to dress-up for our church annual Trunk-or-treat party. I was surprised at how many people I fooled, dressed up as "Grandma" to Violet's "Little Red Riding Hood". People either thought I really was an old lady, or they didn't realize it was me when I would say hello. (Scott wore a flannel shirt and was therefore "the woodcutter" from the story.) Ruby was scared of Sam's "zombie" costume and didn't want to be in the same room with him. Owen had a hard time deciding what to be, but finally settled on a rock star. His rock star of choice is the Lego minifigure rock star. Ruby also had many choices, but in the end she just wanted to wear her Tinkerbell dress-up.