I may be mean... Surviving Halloween

November 2, 2003

I bought candy that I really don't like. If I'm going to eat candy and

eat the sugar, fat, calories, etc and possibly get sick, I go for the

good stuff from a chocolatier. My kids don't get much of that, so I'm

not doing too badly here. However, I do really like tootsie rolls (go

figure) and made the kids promise that they would give me three tootsie

rolls each (had to make adjustments for the different sizes though), but

gave me the tootsie rolls last night and Leah will give me her

tootsie rolls in a few days. Then the halloween hullaballoo will be over

and tootsie rolls will be out of sight, out of mind.

Have to say though, wow, they got some good stuff that wasn't candy.

Little spooky bags of pretzels. Packages of Cheese crackers. Kudo's

Granola Bars (guess they may as well be candy). even got Pop Tarts

from one house. Guess they ran out of stuff. Snack sized packs of

Pringles. They both got some gift certificates for free french fries at

Mc's. Package of Halloween Oreo's. One house even gave away those

little boxes of cereal, fruit loops, cheerios, etc. Thought that was

kind of cute. Of course I have about 20 lbs of candy in the house right

now too.

Hope everyone had a fun, safe and somewhat healthy Halloween. : ) I

feel another protein " feast " coming on.

Regina

November 3, 2003

Joanne got something that I LOVED and may look for next year... Little

plastic bags with teeny you-assemble Styrofoam gliders. We put one

together yesterday (the gal gave Joanne two) and that thing really GOES!

It flew almost completely across the house, through the whole living

room and almost all the way down the hall. Unfortunately, one of the

cats (the one that likes to eat bugs) saw it as a flying thing to kill,

and she killed it, alright! She chomped a big bite out of one of the

wings, and now it doesn't fly well. Bad Amber! LOL I promised Joanne

that next time, we will lock Amber in one of the bedrooms before

" takeoff " . :-)

Z

I may be mean... Surviving Halloween

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