Time Twister Halloween

I don't know about the rest of the free world but this time change has really screwed with me and Gracie. We both were ready to go to bed at 7pm last night. I have been up since 3:30am. She followed at 4:45am. I started a fire in firepace and after a glass of juice she pulled up a pillow and a throw and lay in front of the fire and drifted back to sleep. She normally doesn't have to be up until 6:45am but often wakes up at 6 - 6:15. We both were up a couple times in the night as well. It is going to be a long day. Today I have my first appointment with the new doctor. I am a bit nervous because of the bad taste left from the old man doctor of late. Steven and Colby will be dressed in costume to take Gracie trick or treating this evening. I cannot wait to be able to snap those photos for posterity. LOL I have 2 giant bowls of candy to give out and I think my costume is just going to be the pregnant housewife look. I have no idea what to expect in this village as far as the trick or treaters go. I do know there is a partial school bus load of kids around here so maybe my door will be busy. We have carved three pumpkins for the evening events. Colby and Gracie did a scarey face and a puking pumpkin. Steven did a very geek Pumpkin Pi. Yes, Pi. Not pie. It looks pretty cool and is perhaps the scariest of all -ohhh spooky math. LOL I am trying to decide what's for supper. At this moment I have no idea whatsoever. When I was a very little kid, under age 8, my mother, sister and I lived with my grandparents. Halloween was a big deal! We got together with the neighboring kids and went through the neighborhood together. Man the loot we collected! In a 3 block by 3 block quadrant we racked up on the candy. One lady made popcorn balls and another candy apples. We had to remember who gave us the candy apples because if it was someone that might be a shady personality we would have to throw them away. My grandmother always made candy apples. I can still see the bright red candy coated apples on her large baking sheet that she used for cooking biscuits. Those were the days. When my mother remarried we moved to the country and farm life began. There wasn't a house near us for over a mile and a half. There was no trick or treating. No drives to where neighborhoods were either. For the next few years my momma would throw a halloween party for the people we knew with kids our age. It was alot of fun. We had real hayrides in the hay wagon. Back then it seems it was much colder than it is now. I can remember being so cold and the icey wind biting into our cheeks. By the time the ride was over everyone was scrambling to get close to the fire and have something warm to eat and drink. When my own kids came along I couldn't hardly wait for them to be old enough for the Halloween goings on. I made so many costumes. Colby has been several variations of a princess, pocahontas, little mermaid, Thing, a clown, a witch, a hobo, a ballerina, 50's sock hop-ster, a cracked egg and last year she was a Dowager. This year she is planning to be an elizabethian queen. She loves dressing up and taking Gracie out. I suspect as long as there is a child in this house and right through to her own children she will always have a reason to dress up and play on Halloween. Gracie's costume history has not been so widely varied. Gracie has been a princess of some sort every single year. Most often a pink princess. This year isn't much different. She is going to be a snow princess, dressed all in white. She isn't happy unless she is a princess. How can you tell a 7 year old girl she is not really a princess? Last year Steven dressed in his old tuxedo from college days and was Frederick, Colby's son. She played the english dowager role perfectly. She really should be a drama student but crownds and unknown people make her very nervous. Tomorrow I should have lots of photos to share and I'll be around as usual to see all of yours. Thank you so much for the supportive comments from yesterday. I think I was more pregnant-lady-upset by the bogus comments left and discovered at 4am yesterday than anything. I deleted them and blocked the IP's. It is all water under the bridge and I am moving on. I do need to update my list and add several great journals. If you link to me and I don't know, speak up and let me come see your place, please. Happy halloween, y'all!