Back to work tomorrow

@YrNemo When my kids were in school the school was asking for healthy drinks and treats. I would mix cranberry, apple and grape. Nice color, good taste, lots of health and a bit more pricey than Kool aid.

Oh, I can hear the sarcasm in your typing. They do not get quite so worked up about Thanksgiving, but after Halloween they know that Christmas is coming.

@GardenGerty One of the kindergarten teachers used to tell us parents, 'children are harder to control after a party with red drinks and lots of sweets!'

I hope your mother is doing well. Be sure to get some good rest for yourself.

@LadyDuck It seems we cannot stop the aging process at all.

@GardenGerty My mother is well thank you, of course some minor problems due to the very old age.

For me that means payday is that much closer.

@jobelbojel We get paid on the fifth.

@GardenGerty ok cool. May paycheck is every 10th and 25th of every of the month.

This is the first year I have refused to buy candy. I know no one will come, and I will not sabotage myself with it.

@PainsOnSlate That is reasonably even.

@GardenGerty I bought a package of 30, knowing it would be more than we needed, I had about 20 kids in two big groups, all of them little so when they left I turned my lights off.

Yes, and you cannot reason with these kids. We tried to talk about healthy food, vs yummy food yesterday, and boy was someone mad. Wasn't me.

@just4him The conversation, in all fairness, was with a mentally retarded child. We were talking about a variety of foods and sweet treats. She was angry when we said that although ice cream is yummy, it is not a good healthy food and you should eat small amounts. It depends on the child, and what they grew up with, etc. For many, sweet goodies are comfort and love.

@GardenGerty I don't know why someone would get mad about eating healthy, but it is Halloween after all and the kids probably don't want to be made to feel guilty about all the candy they're going to get or got if you had trick or treat yesterday as some did. We have ours today.

The day after will be all the greedy adults looking for half price goodies left over.

@thislittlepennyearns Wow. Some of the same will claim to have no money for food, afterwards.

@GardenGerty they're already greedy adults looking for dollar candy. We've sold thousands of dollars of candy. Which is impressive since all our candy is $1

I think I will dress up as an "old woman" I have on purple and will add a red hat.

@GardenGerty I will be dressing up as me as I have quite a lot on my plate at the moment but I still enjoy the feeling of Halloween anyway and am thankful there are trickers or treaters as they are not very nice here.

I do not envy me either.

@GardenGerty At least you'll get some exercise.

@sallypup Exercise is part of every day for me.

All these breaks in routine keep things from being boring but they certainly are hard for very small kids and special needs kids to understand waiting and not letting it disrupt learning.

@GardenGerty I can understand that.

It keeps the days varied, that is for sure.

@GardenGerty true

Life has been pretty full. Mostly with medical of late. Oh and also with me taking my sister shopping.

@GardenGerty Sounds like you have a busy life Heather.

I think that would be impossible. Normal day of school on Halloween seems and oxymoron to me.

@GardenGerty They somehow managed it, although I don't know how well the kids behaved through the day compared to other days.

It probably will all depend on my attitude.

I will take it one day at a time.

I am in a town that will have a community celebration. I will not buy candy for the house as I will eat it all.

Any excuse to change the schedule.

Yes, trick or treat, costumes, candy, prizes and parties. It makes it very hard for them to concentrate.

And excited afterwards, as well.

Yep, that is true.