Good morning to you all! Well another candy day came and went. I felt sorry for the little kids that live across the street because no one here gives out candy. I have a huge bag of dumdum suckers left from when I bought them for Jackson and I went across the street and got a couple small bags of bite size candy and came back and put little goodie bags together with raisins, the chocolates and the suckers in them and took them over to their kids. I saw a couple little boys down the street see me do it so I went back in and made up a couple more and took them down to them. The little ones across the street always say hi to us and come and want to pet Fortune when they see him and such and I talk to their dad and mom all the time. Their dad was really touched and I just told him it was nothing that we don't give out treats because we go over to our dd's to be with our grandson. Speaking of that, I found out why he didn't go out this year. They always get really creative with his costume, ie he was Mario of the video game one year and a character from th Futerama cartoon one year and so on. Well, Thomas is fed up nobody ever knows who he is...
He said they thought he was a plumber the year he was Mario and he kept explaining who he was so he is tired of it.
His mom and dad paid him to give out candy this year instead. He is such a hoot. We gave him his loot, which was the leftover candy I bought for the neighborhood kids so we wouldn't eat it, an m and m fan with candy in it, a gummy sucker, a pez, his favorites peeps pumpkins, and his felt frankenstein pail that had cheese popcorn, chocolate eyeballs and some kind of candy corn pumpkins. I then gave him $20 in his card. You don't think I spoil he and Jackson, do you....
I called Jackson to ask him about his trick or treating, but they weren't home so I left him a message instead. Here is my little froggy before he went trick or treating. I guess he outgrew his lion costume and they had to rush and go buy him something bigger! I just hope the stuff I made and bought for him will fit!!!
I found this gift kit from Febreeze at the commissary. It was a pumpkin spice candle, a can of pumpkin air freshner and I thought that was all, but when I got it home it had a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter in it!. I have a delicious sugar cookie recipe so I am going to make some frosted pumpkin sugar cookies to take to Indiana for the boys for Thanksgiving. I bought desserts from Swiss Colony this year and am having them shipped to arrive the day before Thanksgiving to Jay's and he and Alicia are doing the whole thanksgiving so I don't have to lift a finger this year. It was a compromise so I would quit griping about it wanting to go out to eat for Thanksgiving. Jay hates that idea, though we do it with Kelly's family when we are down here for Thanksgiving and Jay doesn't come.
Susan: I am going to try some of that tea when I get finished here. I am going to look at Fresh Market and see what kind of teas they have. I bet they might have some different ones.
Maggie: Do you know, I got so busy, I forgot to take the candy with me to the school? You are right, they were really rigid about when the kids could have treats so I am glad I didn't take them. I went to the clinic and walked in to discover the floor covered in water so had to get that sorted out first thing. It was a total mess. They have been having leaks in the school and I had about three coming down. It was raining really hard all day so I imagine that didn't help. They got it cleaned up and put down buckets and all was right then. No one was sick though! Guess they didn't want to miss their parties.
Jean: You need to buy yourself one of the binder books that are divided into months and you put the cards you want to send into each pocket so you know when to mail them. Of course, you have to keep track of the book and remember to look into it....
I could see you get to December 31 and look into the book and you have leftover cards!
Well, I am going to boil some eggs for some breakfasts this week, put laundry in the dryer, a couple dishes into the dishwasher and sit down with some tea and sew up Jackson's sweater. You all have a blessed Lord's Day today! I am hoping for another sunny day like yesterday.
Faye
You are back in the right direction, which is great. I am bouncing all over the place and having female issues again so the doctor and I are going to have a big discussion about it. I am staying on WW and even under pts a bit per day so I should be losing and I am not and I am retaining water as I said.
Rocktober 31 ~ Spook Day
Just out there. If I remember what I said I could re-say it but alas, my memory doesn’t reach there. 
that happens on this night and it can be horrid to say the least. But I won’t go into it here. 
Onward and downward. I like a nice cup-a 
now and then. My favorite is Oolong but it is hard to find here. It is a black tea. I like to use the loose tea for I have a basket that fits in my tall stainless drink mug (it came with it) and I can make it by the serving that way. One year for Christmas I made up some muslin tea bags with neat little tags and gave a few away in a holiday mug to some folks that were jazzed to get them. This year I am going to put mixes in canning jars with festive instruction tags. I have lots of recipes for cookies, soups, stuffing, brownies, hot chocolate, etc. that go nicely in jars. I especially like doing the bean soup one that layers several kinds of beans in the jar and looks pretty. I make up the spice packets and add all that goes into the recipe that I can. Some of the recipes do require the recipient of the jar to add eggs, milk, water and such. I have fun. 
We are dry and on the cool side. Your take to work lunch sounds good right now. I am hungry and haven’t eaten yet this day. Did the school let your GS pass out that candy to his class? Some places are getting so “politically correct” now days and won’t allow such as that. Pity that.
Type at y’all later. 
