Early October

 

I promise this will be the last homecoming update. As you can see there was a sparce crowd at the game in the middle of pouring rain. Good think we upgraded and paid for reserved seats.  My hat worked out well keeping the raindrops off my glasses! My son in law is dressed for the "walk". They had the parents line up in the rain the whole second quarter, waited until the opposing team's band played (and they were fantastic!) and then gave such long biographies of the candidates our own band did not have time to perform.  Then they posed them for photos during the third quarter. As official purse holder of all things, we ended up staying until the end of the game which means we got home after midnight. 

The next day was the dance. Two tall grandsons on the left, granddaughter on the right. 

It turns out my editing limits number of stickers per photo so I had to compensate and put several ladies under one big sticker on the right. 

After waiting too long for vaccines last year; our youngest grandson came down with RSV the day before our shots; I was on the ball for October 1st this year.  We got our Influenza vaccine and Covid booster. 

I think my MM band aids spell Miss Merry! We told the pharmacist we would be back for the updated shingles vaccine and we were right. We did get the shingles vaccine following my bout in 2016. Unfortunately for us, the new one came out the next year. We were in our 50's and our insurance didn't cover the $300 shots so we were waiting. And waited overtime. After we got home from the pharmacy our neighbor announced she has shingles. I got online and scheduled our shots for this coming Monday.  

I am working on my Halloween costume! 

My grandson's preschool has a "trunk or treat" event every year.  You may remember last year grampa and mimi were dressed as the Grinch and Santa.  I had an idea for next year as soon as it finished.  Children have so many opportunities to go trick or treating these days and get so much candy. Why not hand out something more worthwhile?

The Scholastic Book orders have a special book each month for $1-$2. I also found books through the year at inexpensive prices on Amazon.  I have a crate of books to pass out! 

And what is my costume? Well,  I am going to be a book fairy!  I made my skirt from pages of two paperback books, one which was so silly I wanted to help no one else to read it, the other was a tea mystery (boo hoo) that I poured an entire cup of tea over by accident.  I bought an elastic waist skirt at Goodwill and sewed the pages on.  I am sure some will fall off so I will be taking more pages and a stapler with me for emergencies. 

I ordered a shirt that says "Book Fairy" from Walmart in July and it is sitting in a warehouse in this country waiting to be picked up. I think it has been there since late August. My daughter has a Cricut and is going to make me a replacement. And I have $1.25 fairy wings from the dollar store.  

I will be sharing photos from our "trunk" after the event. 

Our state has early voting starting on Tuesday so we will get that out of the way.  

We had our annual poll worker training last week and this year's focus was on "confrontational voters" and how to handle conflict. Fun times, fun times.  Meanwhile I think I am bringing shredded chicken and maybe a crock of soup, too. We need to keep our energy up! 

And I am also planning for that huge paycheck we get for our efforts. I am putting it towards another wonderful Hallmark Christmas Weekend at the resort we went to last year.  I got an email that I can get 40% off if I make reservations by October 8.  I am trying to wrangle the group for numbers so I can take advantage of the savings.  I am so excited already!