Happy Halloween

A few weeks with no posts.  This is starting to become a habit. 

I've been working quite a bit.  I walked into a grade 3 classroom last week to a greeting of, "are you an alien?"  "Guys, I think she's an alien".....I almost burst into tears and walked right out.  Later on, I read to them from the chapter book that their teacher has been reading.  It was entitled, "our teacher is an alien".  Aha.  It all made sense. 

It's been a struggle to figure out where to take the kids while I'm working.  The nature of my work (supply teaching) is such that it is not predictable.  It's possible to work every day in a week some weeks and then no days other weeks.  This is really the first year, since I've had kids, that I'm searching out work and trying to get as many days as possible.  We're not really sure what to expect in terms of number of days.  Because of this, we can't pay for daycare, as I'm not willing to put the kids in care and be at home, not working.  I'm lucky in that, James has a schedule where he works 5 days on and 4 days off.  I try to work on the days that he is off, and then if there are days where he is working, James drops the boys off with my mom at 12 on his way to work.  She then takes them on the bus with her.  It's hard to figure it all out, but it seems to be working so far.

This past weekend was Halloween weekend.  Saturday we took the kids swimming and then were going to head to the Milton "tots on parade" event, but decided to go to the Georgetown one, as we didn't think that Hunter would stay awake for the drive to Milton.  Tots on Parade happens on main street and is where businesses give out candy.  It happens during the day and is designed to be a less "scary" trick or treating experience for the younger children.  The kids had a lot of fun, I was a bit taken a back by the number of people there.  I was not expecting it to be that busy.  Milton was probably a gong show!

Once we got our loot from the Tots on parade we headed to nana and papa's to show them our goodies.  We didn't have much time there though, had to get back home as James' parents were coming over.  Once they arrived, James and I headed out to spend the afternoon just the two of us.  We really need to do more of that.  We went for walk in Milton, had some beers, ice cream and cupcakes.  We went to chapters and then went out to dinner.  We were home in time to feed the boys their dinner....and were completely refreshed.  Sometimes you just need some time away.

Sunday was halloween.  We headed to James' parents for lunch and to show them the kids in their costumes.

From James' parent's place we headed to the Glen.  We ordered pizza, and then James, Jamie and I took the boys out trick or treating.  It was ADORABLE.  We walked down into the village, and went door to door.  It was dark out, and Drew was thrilled that we were out walking "in the night".  He kept saying, "mommy, this is SO FUN!"  Of course, this statement was always followed by, "but mommy, uncle Jamie and I are making the rules, you follow us".  Hunter had a great time too.  He followed Drew around and would not let go of the bucket that he was carrying around getting candy.  It was so cute, and so impressive that he could carry it.  It got pretty heavy!

Drew sees the cake and says, "mommy, I'm not eating that, it has spiders in it...that's disgusting".

Our camera is broken.  I'm so annoyed.  All I have left is the camera on my phone, and while it's not the worst, as you can see by the photos on this blog, it's not the best either.  Maybe Santa will bring me a new camera!