{"id":537,"date":"2012-11-03T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T05:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/?p=537"},"modified":"2012-11-03T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T05:16:20","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Halloween!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The girls finished their costumes over the weekend, so they were ready to go. Haley was a “Weeping Angel” from Dr. Who, and Katelyn was the March Hare. I dressed as a Silly Sorceress. Val didn’t dress up this year. Check out our costumes.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Halloween morning they were up by 6:30 to get ready. After makeup and nail angst I got Haley to school on time, and came back for Katelyn. She had to fill a whole gallon thermos with boiling water and package up some tea bags and cups (after a stop at the store), to take to school for a tea party, then off we went.<\/p>\n

I went to work, one of about 25 people on my floor to dress up. I’d been coordinating events at work, decorating a bit (my colleague Glenda did a lot of it) and organizing a potluck and costume contest. I was the emcee, and it was great fun. You can see pictures from the party here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I left work early and picked up both kids, then tried to get some work done. At 5 I took Haley over to her friend Ari’s house in Burlingame. Haley’s parents took the two of them plus Ari’s little sister out in their neighborhood, and they had a great time. Meanwhile, I dropped Katelyn off to meet her friends near downtown Millbrae, and they went off on their own, after which I went back to pick up Haley. An hour or so later I took Val to the airport for a business trip to Arizona, and then picked up Katelyn. Basically I just shuttled everyone around all evening, and we all had fun.<\/p>\n

Oh, and we’d carved pumpkins on Sunday, which you can see here<\/a>. My friend Sabine helped, and Katelyn wasn’t able to do a pumpkin because she was busy doing homework. Sad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls finished their costumes over the weekend, so they were ready to go. Haley was a “Weeping Angel” from Dr. Who, and Katelyn was the March Hare. I dressed as a Silly Sorceress. Val didn’t dress up this year. Check out our costumes. On Halloween morning they were up by 6:30 to get ready. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5,7,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general","category-haley","category-jason","category-marilyn","category-recreation","category-val"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marilynj.com\/familynews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}