Halloween Happened:

This year was all about $1 costumes. I kept thinking what have I got that I can put together…Emma was going to be Princess Cinderella (dress up from her birthday). However, she's pretty sensitive to touch and her sleeves were bothering her at the 11th hour! So I asked if she wanted to be Lois Lane to go with Parker's costume (Clark Kent, his Sunday clothes plus a p.j. shirt and glasses from the dollar store). Emma got pretty excited when I told her Lois likes to wear her hair up in a messy bun (the only hair-do Emma will allow me to do anymore) and she could borrow some of mommy's old lipstick!

  So I pulled out the computer, printed off some press passes and laminated them (a whopping 5 minutes tops)! I was pretty pleased that I somehow got my kids dressed and up and at the neighborhood carnival on time. My costume? I was dressed like a mom: threw on my fluffy pink robe, put in a few well placed curlers, one earring, a sucker was stuck to my back and there may have been a few stickers on me too. Again, not my best of efforts but not bad when Emma says an hour before we leave: "Mom where's your costume? I want you to dress up too!"

Emma toted around a pad of paper and a pencil too (she wanted to know what a journalist was).