12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 7

[elaineteresa]

ok 50 pages to go. no one post today!!!

 

[lillygator]

I am never caught up on laundry. That's just my life I guess!
Monday's - yuck! The Bachelor Rome starts tonight! I think I am going shopping on my lunch today. I need a couple new fall shirts. It is starting to get cool in the mornings and evenings.

 

[lillygator]

ok 50 pages to go. no one post today!!!

a day without anyone posting on this thread? I think we'd all have to be on the cruise for that!!!

 

[waltsgirl]

we are having a big halloween party. We do every year. We will even have a hay wagon. It will be so much fun!!!!!

We will also take DS trick or treating!

What time should we be there and what should we bring?

 

[lillygator]

well I just ordered 6 pins off Disney Direct for $20 and free shipping. I will either give them to Samantha as a birthday present while at WDW or use them as Tink gifts. It's actually 3 pins....but I got dups of each, one for each princess.

I was going to get DH the pirate jammies...but doubt he'd wear them. I haevn't heard from him this morning. I wonder if he's upset that he LOST, to a GIRL I ruined his UNDEFEATED season!

Not that I am gloating or happy about it or anything!

 

[waltsgirl]

Don't laugh, but I put them on the conveyer belt the way I want them bagged...

I do the same thing!!

 

[lillygator]

Halloween - I started pulling out the decorations last night. Previously we have always had a big party - for Samantha's birthday but there were no kids, just adults. I don't want to have the class over the age range and maturity levels and having all the parents there as well would just stress me out. Last year we did a big dinner party for our family at 1900 Park Fare and it was our cheapest party yet! This year we will be at the World 10/26-10/29 and then on Halloween night we will TOT and then race home to greet TOT'ers. All four of us dress up.
Several people have asked if we are having a party and I've said no and also some of the parents keep asking if Samantha is having a party. I just think it's too much. She is nto yet interested in having friends over and I would rather spend the money on WDW than on food, favors, etc that go to waste not to mention we need no more gifts/toys/clothes. It may sound selfish but throwing a great party is a lot of work! I am going to send in a cake and probably a craft activity for her class and they can celebrate there.

Still working on the costumes. I bid on one for Samantha this morning but it ends while I am here at work so I can't check or bid higher since my darn job blocks Ebay (the nerve). If I win I am hoping I can get a second one for Haley and then both girls can wear it for Halloween and pirate night.

 

[lillygator]

67 days till
Cruise
Cruise
Cruise!

 

[elaineteresa]

Vanessa - if that happens again I would be happy to try and bid on something for you while I am home. I can then ship it to you - cheaper than most ebayers charge

elaine

 

[waltsgirl]

Halloween.. the boys will be Peter and Edmund Pevensie from Chronicles of Narnia. I got the costumes at disneystore.com -- so cute!!!

We usually do a quick once around with the neighborhood buddies and then go to a Harvest Party thing at church that the teenagers put on for the younger kids, it's like a carnival with lots of little games for tickets, prizes, candy, etc. Lots of sports games, pretend fishing thing, I think there is even a cakewalk. The kids love it and it keeps the teens busy too.

This year we might go to a zoo boo thing at a local Zoo with some of the boys' friends.

I really like to go somewhere because I can't stand handing out candy! It is fun at first when the neighborhood kids are out, but then by about 7:30 or so we start getting carloads of older kids that are not from the neighborhood. Why would you drive to a different neighborhood to get free candy? Some have parents with them, some are just older kids that can drive. We can turn out the lights but they still keep ringing the bell, they don't take hints well, lol.

Car loads of kids used to bother me until I did my student teaching in a inner city school. I noticed how excited the students all got around halloween, I mean really excited. i mentioned this to the teacher and she told me that the children get more excited for halloween then for Christmas, because they know they will get something for halloween becasue they get it from other people and don't have to depend on their own parents. Ever since then, children coming from other areas don't bother me, in fact I often feel sorry for them that this is the one thing they look so forward to. And if they don't dress up, oh well they still get candy who cares it is less I have to eat!!!

 

[MrsMork]

I stopped for some toast a bit ago. One of my favorite nightime snacks.

Now that is funny! DrHug also LOVES toast as a nightime snack.

 

[MrsMork]

I will probably regret saying this . . . but don't all of you go filling out the online application on our web site . . . I'm the one that has to read all of those.

John1

Hmmmmm. Sounds like a challenge to me! Do you need a pharmacist, a customer service specialist, a cart boy?

 

[tynkerbell]

You guys sure were busy last night. How will I ever catch up?

 

[MrsMork]

I found the online application and almost filled it out but was able to restrain myself.

 

[pyramid2000]

WTH?
I missed the
92 my HS grad
00 married
02 Samantha
05 Haley ----


BUT I BEAT DH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was undefeated!
Ok gotta go to work, catch up later!

Congrats Vanessa!! Here's to next week!

 

[MrsMork]

Why would you drive to a different neighborhood to get free candy? Some have parents with them, some are just older kids that can drive. We can turn out the lights but they still keep ringing the bell, they don't take hints well, lol.

Well, we did when kids GKS were small because we have NO neighborhood. We would go to a friend's house, I got to hand out candy and see all the cute little costumes and the kids got to go trick or treat.

 

[TanaL]

Halloween - I started pulling out the decorations last night. Previously we have always had a big party - for Samantha's birthday but there were no kids, just adults. I don't want to have the class over the age range and maturity levels and having all the parents there as well would just stress me out. Last year we did a big dinner party for our family at 1900 Park Fare and it was our cheapest party yet! This year we will be at the World 10/26-10/29 and then on Halloween night we will TOT and then race home to greet TOT'ers. All four of us dress up.
Several people have asked if we are having a party and I've said no and also some of the parents keep asking if Samantha is having a party. I just think it's too much. She is nto yet interested in having friends over and I would rather spend the money on WDW than on food, favors, etc that go to waste not to mention we need no more gifts/toys/clothes. It may sound selfish but throwing a great party is a lot of work! I am going to send in a cake and probably a craft activity for her class and they can celebrate there.

Still working on the costumes. I bid on one for Samantha this morning but it ends while I am here at work so I can't check or bid higher since my darn job blocks Ebay (the nerve). If I win I am hoping I can get a second one for Haley and then both girls can wear it for Halloween and pirate night.

V, do they block esnipe.com? You could check the status and bid through there. Good luck getting her costume!

I know what you mean about the birthday parties. We are having one combined party for the boys and their friends this year at the children's museum. There will be someone else to organize it all and clean up, wahoo! Dh's family would also like 2 parties just for them but I don't think the birthday should be about the adults in the family; some of them really like to steal the attention from the kids. And dh doesn't want to have them over anyway. So this is the first year we will do just one party! Dh's birthday and Thanksgiving and 3 bdays on my family's side are in the same month so it just gets to be too much.

 

[TanaL]

Car loads of kids used to bother me until I did my student teaching in a inner city school. I noticed how excited the students all got around halloween, I mean really excited. i mentioned this to the teacher and she told me that the children get more excited for halloween then for Christmas, because they know they will get something for halloween becasue they get it from other people and don't have to depend on their own parents. Ever since then, children coming from other areas don't bother me, in fact I often feel sorry for them that this is the one thing they look so forward to. And if they don't dress up, oh well they still get candy who cares it is less I have to eat!!!

wow, I never thought of it that way!

 

[pyramid2000]

Our K-mart is really little. That is my least favorite store. I generally avoid it at all costs.

It's the only general type store we have around here. No Target and Walmart has been built and ready since early summer, but no permits for access or something. I have never liked Walmart and have only been 2 or 3 times, but Kmart is getting really tiring. Probably why I only go to the store a few times a year.

 

[pyramid2000]

Car loads of kids used to bother me until I did my student teaching in a inner city school. I noticed how excited the students all got around halloween, I mean really excited. i mentioned this to the teacher and she told me that the children get more excited for halloween then for Christmas, because they know they will get something for halloween becasue they get it from other people and don't have to depend on their own parents. Ever since then, children coming from other areas don't bother me, in fact I often feel sorry for them that this is the one thing they look so forward to. And if they don't dress up, oh well they still get candy who cares it is less I have to eat!!!

My neighbor always asks the kids if they are from the neighborhood (in a descreet way like which street do you live on). It seems as if half are and half are from parts that may not have as many houses. There is one development that gets TONS of kids from other places. They usually run out within an hour!