Comments on: Halloween Recap

By: Leisa Hammett

Leisa Hammett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:35:28 +0000

Oh god. You’re so hilarious.

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:49:42 +0000

Ahhhh, got it ! Thanks, and you’re right.

By: jonny

jonny — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:28:54 +0000

You wrote “it could have been good enough” and that the teacher wanted to go over a few things. It came across to me like you got your foot back in the French translating door, but still had some work to do to get things up to speed.

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:57:48 +0000

jonny, I’m afraid I don’t quite get what you want to say with ‘have your work cut out for you’. Could you please help me ?

By: jonny

jonny — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:03 +0000

Thanks for the up-date, delighted! It does seem like wonderful news!! Sounds like you may still have your work cut out for you. I trust the meeting will be fruitful, though!! = )

And happy Finnish Father’s day to all the dads out there!!

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:25:25 +0000

Wow, I just received the email from my French teacher: it’s a 3,5 and it could have been good enough. I have to wait till thursday when we meet next time. Some details have to be discussed.

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:17:13 +0000

Sorry I didn’t tell earlier – I had an advanced training (new software for translators) the last two days.
Well, I don’t have ANY impression if it was good or not but I asked my teacher if she could email at least the result as soon as she has marked the tests. Btw, on my way to school the train stopped in the middle of nowhere and there it stood for some time…then they said in an announcement that there had been a ‘signal failure’ ahead. But way to often this is a paraphrase for an suicide attempt. Anyway, when finally the train arrived in the next station I realized it would not go on. So I had to change the train for just one more station and this one also stopped every now and then – however, I was more than half an hour late for school ( I had given notice to our principal as soon as I knew I would be late). Nevertheless I was quite relaxed with regard to the circumstances. I’m sure it was due to all your prayers, it really was a relief to know that you would back me up ! I’m so grateful, thanks !

By: MostlySunny

MostlySunny — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:24:46 +0000

Hey everyone – been out of touch electronically. Looks like it was a fun weekend! Love the costumes; and the weather looks perfect. Very creative pumpkin. I love fall!

trishARKANSAS – we’re with you!

delighted – How’s the French?

By: MeaganW

MeaganW — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:50:44 +0000

That is a whole lot on your shoulders, trishARKANSAS. We will most definitely be praying for you and your family.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:59 +0000

To answer your question, Tori—–we had about a hundred trick or treaters! The trunk or treat festivites at our church has reduced the “treat or treat” traffic in our neighborhood! Parents prefer to take their little ones there where it’s safe rather than walk up and down busy country roads around here.

Our church’s “Trunk or Treat” ’09 was a success—-over two thousand kids went through, even though it was a cold damp evening!

By: LindaB

LindaB — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:08:59 +0000

Trish, bless your heart, you have your hands full! I will also add my prayers to the others here!

I thought I had commented here, and I guess I didn’t! I think my mind is slipping! Anyway, let’s renew our efforts to make every blog entry a triple digit comments one!

Tori, I too admire your ability to wear red red lipstick!!! Cool! Char, that costume is so classic, you did well to use it again! And Madi…………….well,………I’m wondering if you got any date offers that night?

By: bettyrwoodward

bettyrwoodward — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:50:49 +0000

Praying for you all Trish.

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:14:01 +0000

Sorry, I probably should have put that through an on-line French translater first! = /

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:02 +0000

Yep, throwing lots of prayers out, up there!! Thanks for sharing, giving us the heads’ u;, allowing, blessing us with such opportunities to do this for you all!!

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:10:19 +0000

trishARKANSAS, I know a little what that means from the supporter’s point of view. Of course I’ll pray too.

By: trishARKANSAS

trishARKANSAS — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:05:20 +0000

Thank you sooo much! God bless.

By: rachelbaker

rachelbaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Trish – praying for you all x

By: tori

tori — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:21 +0000

trishARKANSAS– We will absolutely be praying for your mom and your aunt, and you, too. That is a lot for you to deal with, sweet one.

By: trishARKANSAS

trishARKANSAS — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:53:20 +0000

I’m so sorry that I haven’t left a Say it! for a while. You all were the highlight of my day for several months. Now I have to go to the local library to use the computer.
I’m here today because I know that you will pray. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer about a year ago. Yesterday my mother was diagnosed with the same thing. They both live with me and my husband. Please pray. She goes for some scans on Friday pray that she’ll get a good report back.

By: rachelbaker

rachelbaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:34:34 +0000

Concentrate on your French Delighted – we’ll be praying!

By: trishARKANSAS

trishARKANSAS — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:31:18 +0000

The costumes were totally kooool! Especially the shark one. FUNNY!

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:10 +0000

By the way: the pictures are marvelous !
Well then, Tori, you’re the poor victim of my cant. I’m about to becoming a nervous wreck due to this Frech test tomorrow afternoon :/
And I will not give any comment tommorrow unless the test is finished because I want to avoid getting confused with English vocabulary.

By: rachelbaker

rachelbaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:23:53 +0000

Who’d have thought halloween would have turned the place into a ghost town??

By: tori

tori — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:56:59 +0000

Yeah– where is everybody??
HELLOOOOOOOO *sound of echo bouncing off walls*
ANYBODY HOME????? *crickets*

By: delightedabroad

delightedabroad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:57:03 +0000

Are you all totally exhausted from this trick-or-treating thing ???
There’s such a ‘sound of silence’…

By: MeaganW

MeaganW — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:56:54 +0000

LOVE the costumes! Madi’s was hilarious! Charlotte was cute and Tori…you were rocking the red lipstick! Way to go Mummy Blogger!

I was in Nashville Friday night doing fun 20-something Halloween festivities with friends. Saturday was great. I love handing out candy and seeing all of the kids’ costumes. I was never a big fan of trick-or-treating growing up. I always wanted to hand out the candy instead. We had a little over 500 kids. Living on one of the two main streets in town helps.

Pardon me a soap box moment for a bit…

Two things about Halloween trick-or-treaters that annoy me.

1. Kids (and use the word ‘kids’ loosely) coming to my house that look older than me and are much taller than me. I am 25 and 5’4″. Drives me nuts!

2. Kids showing up to my house in NO costume at all still expecting me to give them free candy and a friendly “Happy Halloween!” Now, I end up giving them candy every time because I never feel like starting an argument with any neighborhood kids, but come on now. If I am expected to give you free candy, you could at least make a tiny bit of effort and throw on a wig or a scary Halloween mask or SOMETHING!!!

Ok…I’m getting down now. Haha!

By: auburn60

auburn60 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:44:46 +0000

We got through trick-or-treating for the food bank early (Yay for the baseball team–what great guys!)and got home about dark-just in time for me to light all the jack-o-lanterns (3) and turn on all the electrical decor. I propped up my favorite yearly decoration; my ‘Uncle Charlie’. I stuff a flannel shirt and jeans with newspaper and put a scary rubber mask with a black hat in the neck opening of the shirt–he looks real–and deadly! I set him on a wicker chair on the porch.

And I had–wait for it–NO trick-or-treaters! We sat inside, watching football on TV and waiting for the doorbell to ring. At least I got an extra hour of sleep out of my boring Halloween.

By: rachelbaker

rachelbaker — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:28:05 +0000

Tori – you are a great Mum – there are parents over here who let their teenage daughters go out like that when it isn’t even halloweeen – scary! Looks like you all had a great time.

We went to the light party at the local church – craft activities, bouncy castles and lots of fun games, plus all the kids got sent home with a bag of sweets (candy to you), so they didn’t feel they missed out on anything. Also the party was during prime trick-or-treating hours, which meant the bag of goodies I bought was untouched and is now being devoured by me!

I am not as bad a mother as I thought because Hannah’s thumb condition is congenital and not caused by an accident I didn’t take seriously enough.However, she does need an operation She says that it will be boring. Sometimes I wonder if she is secretly 15 and not 5!

By: bettyrwoodward

bettyrwoodward — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:36:50 +0000

Love the photos. It certainly looks as though you had fun. We had 35 children at our ‘Angels and Superheroes’ party which went well. I spent most of the evening making candles with them! The nearest I got to dressing up though was a halo (I know not really me!) The children (ages 5 -11) are asking if we can do it again next year so they must have enjoyed themselves.

By: rockin robyn

rockin robyn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:27:44 +0000

Fortunately I don’t live too far from my parents house (and the neighborhood where I grew up). My sister and I head to mom and dad’s to help out with the “trick-or-treats”. It’s fun seeing the neighbors grand-children come around.

It was a damp but not too cold evening so my sister and I actually sat out-side on the porch to treat… years back I would dress up and the neighbors are always curious if Robyn’s going to dress up again. The one year I had a big ugly rubber face on and a jail “stripes” outfit and a little munchkin went running down the drive way crying… (I felt so bad – I don’t think I’ve dressed up since)

It’s just fun complimenting the children on their outfits. This year I actually put myself in-the-place of the wee lil ones in the strollers… Man they don’t have a clue what’s going on. “Why did mom put me in these strange clothes and take me for a walk in the dark with a bunch of weirdos wondering the streets and they get all this candy that it’s supposed to look like I got?”