The Chaos of Candy which is called Halloween officially began today. Because of the teachers’ convention which begins tomorrow, today was the last day of school in October and therefore costume & party day. I helped out for the party in Kiki’s classroom. Gleek and Patches came along too because in a room full of sugar-high fourthgraders the amount of chaos they added was negligible. This should tell you something about the experience.
All of the kids were in costume. Lots of cute. Some cute trying to be scary. Some grubby trying to be cute. But the most frightening costumes of all were the young girls dressed up as Paris Hilton. Creepy.
Tonight was also our church Halloween Carnival. The teens put on Carnival games for the younger kids. Prizes and candy are handed out like . . . well . . candy. My kids love this annual event. Even Patches loved it. He kept coming to me yelling “Canny!” with his fist around some treasure and then demanding “Op-en!”
We brought them home wired & tired with buckets full of candy. We then sorted through it. They each got to keep 10 pieces of candy and I bought the rest from them. This way I don’t have to make extra trips to the store. The kids get enough candy to be happy and money with which they can buy something else. And no one gets sick. (we hope) This ritual has become an accepted part of the holiday and will be repeated after trick-or-treating.
For tonight they’re all abed. Tomorrow I don’t have to make them get up early. I don’t have to make them get ready for school. I don’t have to make lunches. I think I like days off as much as the kids do. By Tuesday I’ll be ready to have them go back, but a few days break will be nice.
Paris Hilton? Eww…. they’re almost as bad as the girls who dress up as Britney Spears.
Though, in her defense, at least Paris shows some business skills – she’s making money off that first.. ahem.. video of hers. And opened a club in Vegas. She may look like an airhead, but she seems to know how to drum up the dollars, which is more than I can say for Miss ‘Oops, I Did It Again – and I’m Staying A Virgin Till I Get Married’.
Ah, but are those Paris’ business skills? I would be really surprised if she didn’t have a financial manager giving her advice.
Well then, perhaps she’s picked up an important business skill, that of listening to professional advice she’s paid a lot of money for?
What I find creepier than the 4th-graders dressed as Paris and Britney is the idea that the mommies of these 4th-graders agreed to the idea and helped out with it.
Speaking of costumes …
What did the kids choose to dress up as? What was your final compromise?
Even if she’s borrowing Daddy’s financial managers, she’s still showing more sense than Britney is right now. At least she isn’t stealing men from women who, for example, have had kids with another woman out of wedlock… for what that’s worth.
I dunno. Dumb I can take – but hypocrisy and repeated attention-getting stunts which would put Madonna to shame… well, let’s just say I’ve got a hate on for Britney which makes me wonder why anyone would want to LOOK like her, much less be like her.
Looking at Britney’s antics (the whole quickie wedding/divorce, among other things), I’m just getting the impression that she has a whole bunch of image consultants who she ignores on a regular basis, at least until she’s intimidated into complying with things (like the quickie divorce). At least Paris is making money off her misadventures. 😛
I never thought I’d prefer Paris Hilton to Britney, but… times change.
Shortly after Britney’s wedding-and-annulment I was standing in a store check-out line where all the magazines were plastered with big close-ups of Briney’s face. One of the magazines had the headline “Why did she do it?” . . . well, duh.
Re: Speaking of costumes …
Kiki created an arabian princess ensamble. She even did some of the sewing herself. Link was a spider. Gleek went for Kiki’s outgrown princess dress. Patches was a frog because it let him wear the hat with the cool google eyes.
I think it was the “I’m saving myself for marriage” statement being betrayed by “I’m like a drive-through” actions which really began to piss me off. Sanctity of marriage, my fat heiney.
And things only get worse from there. Honestly, I wouldn’t mourn the death of her career… I wouldn’t. Thank God the Britney look is starting to be considered passe by the youngin’s.
Re: Speaking of costumes …
That sounds soooo cute. Will we get to see pictures someday?