This post is not ordered
chronologically or any other way.
Julia saw a bag of candy on
the kitchen chair (Halloween night maybe?). She hugged it and said, "Ah,
my best friend."
Halloween night. Damon as King Arthur, Julia as a
lady bug or dancer or something, Claire as the Wicked Witch of the West, Anne
as Ginny Weasley (You know, Harry Potter's wife. We tried to dye her hair red
three times with semi-permanent dye. It didn't take.)
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Halloween has broadened Julia's
horizons. Ever since she's been saying things like, "When I grow up, I
want to be a pumpkin" or "When I grow up, I want to play with the
kids" or "When I grow up, I want to be a princess."
She created this a few days ago and
called it a Halloween decoration:
Julia practiced trick-or-treating in
the house, but at the ward trunk-or-treat she was traumatized by the Halloween CD
I played. It has songs like MJ's Thriller. So she wouldn't go trick-or-treating for real. Jake tried, but she
refused, sobbing. "No! I scared!" Mike Royko would have
understood.
Side note: I may have
traumatized the bishop that night. I'm in the primary presidency, and the
primary is in charge of the trunk or treat, as well as the primary program
which was 3 days prior. I've been feeling frazzled for most of 2016, so after
the chili dinner/trunk-or-treat when we were cleaning the church kitchen, I
seconded someone's suggestion that we just have a trunk-or-treat next year with
no chili dinner: no decorating + almost no cleanup = awesome event for everyone
involved. A dear lady said, "Oh, but the chili dinner is a
tradition." I replied, "Well, the Lamanites gave up their wicked
traditions when they converted to the gospel. So can we." She said, "I
wouldn't call the chili dinner a wicked..." At that point I walked out of
the kitchen and screamed in the hallway. I really did. Just as the bishop
walked by. He looked too frightened to comment. Don't worry, though. People
were vacuuming, so probably nobody else heard me. Oh, and I had vampire makeup
on with fake blood dripping out of my mouth.
