Happy Halloween 2020

Aoife and Rosie send Halloween wishes from Portland, Oregon!!

Little Red Riding Hood, on her first Halloween.

Aoife doe not look too sure????  My daughter made her girl the costume!!

Emily insists this is an illusion...However, my guess is that no one wanted any more pictures taken.

The Big Bad Wolf is off-script!!

Ava...cries, please Mommy, I do not want to be a princess...take off my dress!!!

Poor Mommy,,,,

Uncle Eamon cheers the princess, now in street clothes

She agreed to wear her sparkly shoes to go Trick or Treating!!

For some reason the older grands were not that interested in pictures tonight.

They dressed up, but I guess they must be growing up.!

They did not even want to carve their pumpkins...a first!!

Below is my house and our Covid ready treats.

Candy is in the nurse gloves stored in our garage.

Clothes pins always come in handy.

Tonight was sooo crazy...Five children going out.

Noise and commotion galore,

After the treating, they all went home with their mother...and I,...

I am enjoying the beautiful sound of silence..

A great big thanks to my Naranon support group, My ALS support group,

My widow support group..safe places with no judgment

I love you all.

Happy Halloween

Oh, dear...here is more...A kind friend just got her green card after 25 years in the USA.

The American dream

She brought me flowers to celebrate!!

Freezing cold in Charlotte....um...Well...OK, it is 59 degrees..

Brrrr , hunkered down in my chair with the blanket I bought in Guatemala some 40 years ago.

The End of October...Wow.

 

All Saint's Eve

Can you believe this???
A PTA fundraiser brought in $50,000 for our elementary school.
To celebrate,..the entire school could wear their costumes today to school.
The second and third graders showed up downstairs this morning wearing......
 Granddaddy's woolen sports jackets.
The very ones that were in Lynsey's closet because I could not bear to look at them, yet.
They went to school today as "Granddaddy"!!!
And, it was OK!

Tonight was a different story.
TBTG Their mother came to take them Trick or Treating.

 Sometimes I think that this is their true nature...ha ha

The seventh grader filled up his pillowcase, with candy??????
The other two  made me close my eyes while they hid their candy from Grandma.
Pathetic!!!!

 Niece, Alexis saved the day.  I used to love Halloween until my dear man died.
Now I am so grateful for Alexis .  She handed out the candy while my sister and I chatted inside...all warm and toasty.

 Awesome red lights with batteries...97 cents last year at the end of Christmas sales.

 And, the latest patch...This will be one awesome quilt..
with the best story ever,

More choices...all wrong.
Now looking for a light orange solid...kinda...

 All this is why the design wall is so important.

 So thought this solid orange would be the bingo...alas..too dark.

The end of October miracles:

The X-box controller that has been missing for a year and a half has been found right in front of our eyes and noses, in the kitchen hutch...just pushed toward the back.  Evan  made me apologize. It was not only my fault, but I had had to buy a $50 replacement last year.

The new flip phone that has been missing for 1.5 months has been found right beside me at my computer, in my little sewing machine drawer...pushed toward the back.

Now, just missing is the alarm clock bought for Evan so he could get himself up in the morning.

Lost for 6 months, hidden by me for the birthday surprise in June...
and of course two I-pads, taken for mis-behavior....never to have been seen again.
Probably under my fabric stashes.

All is a relief and not too bad for one week...not even looking
Serendipity

I am now full of Halloween candy and sipping red wine..in the peace and quiet of night.
The tooth fairy is about to  make her final visit to Evan as his very last baby tooth came out tonight.
Soon...the raging hormones of adolescence arrive..
Poor Grandma, poor Evan and poor world.
xo.

Happy Halloween

 At 96, Margaret is still the star of our quilting group!!!

 I can see that it all runs in the family...

The relatives..being hung out to dry for the holiday.

Quilting with benefits...

Loving on Sunny, Mom's cat of 8 years..everyone enjoying the snowball I made.

 My mother with her favorite Halloween bowl that squeals when you go for the candy....Mom, always the ham...

Sleeping at Grandma's under a Halloween quilt makes dreams the sweetest, maybe:)