(((((Starz))))). Good Lord Honey.

Barb - Glad you are ok and didn't need us to send an ark to rescue you.

Starz - OMGoodness! I'm glad baby was ok. How are you doing? I'm sure you are sore from it. Did you go to the doctor?

I'm not doing too much today. I took a couple of naps. My sleep pattern is so messed up from the surgery and being in the hospital & rehab. I wake up a lot at night, like every 1 to 2 hours. I'm really hoping that will start to change soon.

DD24 and my GS are coming over tonight. DD24 has to print something and we decided to have dinner. She's going to pick something up on her way over. I can't wait to see my little GS. He is getting so big, starting to say some words (mom, dad, dog, boat, row, nana for banana, and I can't remember what else). My girls were not saying any words at 10 months. This little guy amazes me. I still can't hold him as my incision has not healed but just having him here will be a treat.

Have a great day everyone!

Ah. Haunted by the ghosts of Halloween Past. So many memories to choose from!

I remember fondly the last one in my "old" neighborhood in Scottsdale. The last before moving. Children going from house to house was replaced by costume parties but all of us die hard moms still had bowls of candy for the kids that did not ring our doorbells. I set up my candy and myself in my driveway.

My neighbors soon joined me with their bowls of sweets. We brought chairs out, we drank wine, had laughs and gave huge handfuls of candy to the lone trick/treater who was walking home from somewhere.

It was a fun night despite no little ones. Only us big ones enjoying the cool night of October.

I bought candy for the two or three trick or treater's I'll have tonight. Most of it is left......well, some of it is left. Okay......three pieces are left.

Cyn - That sounds like so much fun!

Kelly - Any left over candy is either going to my next door neighbor or my girls. I'll be too tempted to eat it if it's here.

So far, I've had no trick or treaters. I miss the days when more kids were out trick or treating. Now they have things at schools or malls or other places like that. I can see why, but I sure miss seeing the kids in their costumes.

I haven't been up to much over the past few days. I nap a lot. I also just started a new book and have been reading. I'm really not that far in to the book.

The weather took a nice turn. I think it was in the upper 60s yesterday and 70s today. We've gotten some rain with hail but nothing compared to what Texas is getting slammed with.

I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween!

my husband thinks we have A LOT of trick or treaters and I can't ever get him to remember we don't. Tonight we had about 30. He got a 250 count bag of his favorite candies to give out. I keep telling him it is best for him and I to get what we don't want. I also told him to give candy to the adults going around with the kids but only 1 Mom would accept it. So we have this huge bag left. We have a dentist in town that takes all the left over candy and sends it to the troops wherever they are. So if there is any left of this bag of around 175 pieces left on Monday we need to do that. I would say we could put it in the freezer until Christmas but then I say Joyce get real. Even by putting it in my daughter's freezer it would be the same. I asked her if we gave it to her would she take it she could take it to work Monday eve and she said there wouldn't be any left. She has this little Korean guy who must be 5'2'' 100 pounds that is a room mate who also works with her and he sure can eat. He is the funniest guy, he can tolerate my wild and crazy bunch for Thanksgiving and Christmas so I know he must be a good guy.

But Halloween must have been DH favorite holiday as a kid. He was sure that since we had rain forecasted for today that they would start coming around last night and then come again on Sunday. So he was all ready last night.

Hi everyone! I was at my sister's last night, and there were probably about 130 kids. And that was down from previous years.

It was horrible here Thursday night and Friday for most of the day. We got 14 inches of rain. Lots of flooding in the area and people houses ruined. the senior center in my little town is closed indefintely due to flooding. Watching the rescues on tv was horrifying. Two people lost their lives in Austin.

I ended up with rain coming though my guest bedroom window and about 2 inches in my master bathroom. I called the emergency number at the apartment complex, and received no response. i went to the office yesteday mornng and they said someone would be by, but noone came. I guess it is no longer considered a poriority since the rain stopped. We are supposed to get more rain Wednesday through Saturday.

Oh, Barb, how awful! Watch out for mold and mildew. I can't believe nobody responded to your call. I'll bet you weren't the only one who got water damage there. If all else fails call the local news!! They love stories like this.

Barb. That is quite a lot of water. You seem so calm. Damage?

I read a good book...The Stranger by Harlan Coben. It is a mystery. Well written and it had a decent ending. Sometimes mysteries seem to cheat with the clues and endings, well that is a personal perspective.

Funny aside. I was talking with DS about his reading and recommended this book. He was a bit confused since the same title is an existential novel by Albert Camus. Hardly light reading!

My Mom used to live in neighborhood where they bused kids in. And they did it for 2 days. She would have some kids come by 2 or 3 times in a day. Of course she was giving away pennies. When she moved here she had graduated to nickles! We finally convinced her to buy a big bag of tootsie rolls.