The tooth Fairy

I have wanted to post this for awhile. This is my tooth fairy costume that got a lot of use this year. It was a lot of fun to wear also. So I wore it to our ward trunk or treat party. I told the kids to eat all their candy, forget to brush their teeth and I would seem them in a few weeks. I wore it to a party my kids were invited to on Saturday. I wore it to pack meeting, not because it was my favorite character, but because I wanted to use my costume one more time. I handed out plastic fangs to all the kids. One two year old told me I wasn't the real tooth fairy. Then I handed out treats on Halloween. Some kids wanted money, but I said here's your candy. Then last Saturday, Mark and I went to a Toastmasters Halloween party, as the dentist and tooth fairy. We realized as we set out our food that we brought, that is fit our theme nicely. Fresh fruit and dips. I didn't even think about it as I planned. I was just tired of candy. Unfortunately, I still have some yucky Halloween candy left that no one wants to eat.

Busy lives

After reading my sister's post, I realized how life changes quicker than you realize. Our life used to be uneventful. Then we had kids. This year, our life has gotten busier with our first highschooler. We went and bought one of those big desk calendars to use because an 8x11 sheet of paper didn't cut it anymore. I'll review our recent week-end: Friday night we went to the Twin Cities to return a diversity display for Mark (related to his wood badge ticket). Then we went to the Mall of America for fun. Saturday began with driving Sam to a merit badge fair, picking up donuts for Cub Scouts who meet at our house for scouting for food, doing the paper route, running Noelle to tennis lessons, taking Noelle to the Stake center for a youth activity, going to the mall to get some things, taking scouts from one church building to the stake center for the youth activity, and going to a Toastmasters party. Sunday, I went to Albert Lea for their branch conference. Monday started with trips to each school because of a sick driver, a late bus, and I am the regular carpool driver. We are looking forward to this week-end because the scout camp-out got canceled. Yeah!!! But we still have the second round of scouting for food, pinewood derby car to finish, tennis lessons,....and life goes on. Our first snow fell today and unfortunately the lawn never got mowed before it snowed. So I guess that will not happen this year. I really don't think that it will warm up anytime soon to really be able to mow the lawn. Such is our life. But being busy is better than having nothing to do. It helps us keep our minds off of our problems and helps us appreciate all that we are blessed with in our lifes. We live in an area where there are a lot of church members. Our church leaders want to help our youth. We are close enough to drive our kids to schools. We have gas prices under $2. We have family and we have friends. The paper route gives this mom a healthy work-out on a Saturday and she earned $5.