At Considerable Cost

  Avoiding all Halloween décor in favor for only harvest items?    Nevermore...   http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/all-hallows-eve-or-Halloween   ...but that's a whole other post.   Our Poe little display (technically, those aren't ravens, I know) Poe, but proud.   I'll stop now. Pumpkin Patch Pictures First Kindergarten Field Trip:  Oil Ranch Thomas woke us up at 6:00 that morning, dressed and ready to go.   He was so excited and I am so very thankful I was able to chaperone.   It's the first field trip I've ever been able to attend as a parent, since I always had Thomas home with me for the girls' trips.   As his smile shows, he had a fantastic time! Kindergarten Dress-Up Day & Pumpkin Party!   I love his teacher's classroom parties.   The children attend fun stations with games, snack-making, arts & crafts, etc......

I think this year was the first one I remember when there was not a single message about Halloween posted on the server for our Catholic mom's prayer group.   There was one article posted on the Facebook group page, but no arguments ensued on the main e-mail server.   That was nice.   We'll see how we get through girl scout cookie season.   And no new Harry Potter novels or movies, so that shouldn't come up, either. My memories of Halloween contain no gore, no horror movies.   I looked forward to the huge hot dog and marshmallow roast at our friends' house.   Dressing up was fun and it was the only time I got to wear make-up during my elementary school years.    That was back in my pre-Catholic days.   Pre-baptism of any kind days.   The only people I knew who didn't celebrate Halloween were Protestants who thought the holiday evil because of its Catholic origins/connections.   I w...