And the day after Halloween...

Imagine instead one happy energetic child, two tired-as-can-be children, and two extra sad in tears children...

Some time in the last few years, I realized it's not worth it to get kids to school on time the day after Halloween. I let them know they could sleep in as long as they wanted and move slowly in the morning. Everyone was up by 7:00 still - Landon almost finished with all his morning jobs, the other kids half-asleep and ready to rest all morning, feeling like wouldn't make it to school by lunch! We had a much slower pace and some tired tears from a few, but everyone made it through the after Halloween crash :)

Also, I so want to remember this sweetness. Owen and Ellie and Porter spent hours on Sunday making "Happy Halloween" letters for Owen to deliver. And it was just so fun. He'd hand them the envelope and they'd thank him with a confused look, "It's for me?" And then recognize "Oh! You're the postman and you're delivering the mail!" And so many people were just so delighted with it - it was so sweet to watch. And Owen was so quietly happy about sharing this little bit of happiness - it was all just the highlight of the night for me.

Oh! And I had a costume this year for the first time since Landon was a toddler. I  I just wore black pants & shirt with a bunch of silver star stickers and a round white sticker for the moon - the night sky :) (It wasn't much, but Ellie was thrilled to see me show up to her class in costume!)