Currently: clear and 71
Tonight’s low: 50
Sunset: 5:41

The goblins are restless.

evil eye clown

Originally uploaded by cathymccaughan.

Your Halloween trick is the picture that got Doug in trouble at the costume shop.

Trick or Treat?

I don’t think our species has evolved enough to research a link between infant/toddler nursing behaviors and future sexual behaviors, but I will go ahead and apologize to Evan’s future spouse.

Dear Evan’s spouse,
I’m sorry my son insists on pinching, biting and ’searching for a radio station’. I have tried to discourage this behavior. I am doubly sorry for his habit of putting his face on your chest and making a raspberry noise while turning his head back and forth between your breasts. I did not do enough to discourage this particular activity and may have even encouraged it with my laughter. I’m sorry. At least he snores softly when he falls asleep in your arms.
Evan’s Mom

Why didn’t anyone tell me how funny Shaun of the Dead is?

Don’t forget NaBloPoMo starts Wednesday, November 1st. For the month of November, make a new post on your blog every day and leave a comment on someone else’s blog every day. I plan to use the time to finally finish posting the links to all the blogs I read in my feed reader. Join in and give me more to read. I miss you guys when you don’t blog for several days.

A long time ago, a comment troll said that Evan is Doug’s only son. Doug considers all of the children to be his and they all love him more than the person who has virtually abandoned them. My ex comes around for about 36 hours once a year and their time is spent playing video games in the hotel while he sleeps and touring all the local pawn shops in search of good deals on guitars. He hasn’t spoken to Sarah or Noah in more than 3 months but he did call Tommy to complain that he is too busy to call the children. The children don’t know my ex’s parents at all. In fact, as much as I dislike my ex, I have nothing but pity for the way his parents treat him. It’s silly of me to expect everyone to see Doug and I as one family the way that we see ourselves. When Doug’s grandmother cold shouldered Noah while drooling over Amy three years ago, we hoped Noah was too young to notice. When someone only wants to visit Amy and Evan now, it is impossible for the older children not to notice, especially when they are planning on taking only the youngest two out for a new outfit each. I was caught off guard by this and I’m disappointed that I wasn’t more intuitive about others’ feelings. When my children are dissed, even if it is unsurprising, my mother bear claws come out. Mother bears are not rational or reasonable, just instinctually protective.

“Noah, you have a really hairy back.”

Poor Noah.

Sarah wants to go trick or treating unsupervised with her friends this year. I think back on when I went out unsupervised. An older brother driving (I just googled him and found out he died. That’s sad.), a realtor’s child getting us into an empty house, alcohol and lots of flirting with older boys. Then I think about Sarah. Straight A’s, student council and just a truly great person. The problem is that no matter how much I trust her, I know that the betrayal of that trust is right around the corner and when she does make that first step towards asserting her independence, I don’t want it to be something dangerous.