October 23, 2008 "The longest day"















I must apologize for missing yesterday. We've all heard the saying "there aren't enough hours in a day", well that's what my day was like on Tuesday. It started as usual, around 7:30 am. While the kids took their afternoon nap, I began the daunting task of decorating the house for the Halloween party. This year I've made some logistical changes, added some things, subtracted some things, but overall, this year will be bigger, better and more spectacular. Of course this is hard to achieve when you have 2 little ones to run around after. So after a long day of laundry, dinner, clean up and baths, I put the kids to bed and began decorating. I finally went upstairs at 2:15am. My fingers are sore from using over 100 straight pins and sustained a hot glue gun burn on my ring finger. So needless to say, yesterday, I was exhausted. We spent most of the day on the road, going from store to store looking for last minute Halloween necessities. And I must say that this year I am quite dissapointed with the Halloween decoration selection. Good thing I stocked up last year. November 1st is spent scouring Melbourne for 50% Halloween goods. And to make matters worse, I've been feeling sick the last few days. I think it's just a lack of sleep, sleeping with the windows open, and the stress of the party. I can live with a runny nose and scratchy throat. So I took some medicine last night and went to bed at 7:30 pm. I feel much better today. But I do regret not blogging yesterday. Stay posted and look forward to Sunday, when the Halloween pictures go up. The picture of Ebony gives you just a taste of the decorations.