Tick-o-Teet!

This Halloween was a super fun time for the whole family. My friends had been giving me a hard time about being a party-pooper when it comes to dressing up in costume, so I really tried hard this year to come up with an easy, fun costume for myself. And I came up with Miss America. It was so much fun. Everyone loved it, especially my girls. As I was getting ready, they were watching me and they kept saying, "you're so beautiful mommy!" You know I loved hearing that! They don't even know who Miss America is, but they loved it anyway. Princess was a black cat and Pumpkin was a witch.

We had our usual neighborhood pre-trick-or-treating party and we loved seeing all the costumes. There were several great family themes: Peanuts, Toy Story, Space, and Alice in Wonderland. Even my parents joined the fun!

We went from there to trick-or-treating and as usual, the kids went wild. There was one point in the night when I stopped to pick up a piece of a costume that had fallen off and when I looked up, my group of three 4-year olds that I was responsible for was nowhere to be seen. I stood in the middle of the street in bewilderment turning in circles until I finally heard my neighbor's very loud child scream "Tick-o-teet!" from three houses down! I ran as quickly as I could in my heels and gave them all a good talking-to about not getting ahead of me and staying close. We had a great night and once again, I have to say that I just love my neighborhood and am so thankful to have such fun neighbors. Now I better get to thinking about next year's costume....