A Bootiful Surprise

We're sending big hugs and kisses to some of our favorite Alexandria mums (Dinah, Jen, Holly, Amanda and Perrin) for the wonderful box of Halloween treats that arrived last night. You guys rock! Missing you very much and what is sure to be a fun Halloween party at the Dietrick's.


Somehow our Halloween decorations and pumpkin carving tools got left behind (inconceivable to me) in the move, so the little felt trick-or-treating bags that were included are a  godsend.

We head to RAF Alconbury this afternoon for hayrides and door-to-door candy gathering, American style, which will be the highlight of the Halloween experience for us here.

Halloween night proper will likely be a relative dud, still we plan to put out candy and look for a lit jack-o-lantern or two in the hood (case and point: our 15-year-old babysitter last night saw the box of goodies and said, very curiously, 'OH, you celebrate Halloween?!' as if it were the most foreign of concepts. Which I guess it is. So we wowed her with our newly acquired marshmallow ghosts and Pez. You'd have thought we arrived from Mars.