oh-ho the summer weather here in NY!

 

We had chilly weather, turned on the little fake fireplace...then it warmed up...eighty degrees today!

Tennyson was a police officer, Emily a hiker...I kiddingly told her she must not have gotten the memo to dress up.  :)

Maeve and big sister Ruth, so cute!

The chocolate peanut butter cupcakes...I didn't have one, but they were said to be pretty good.  

Emily

Yours truly, aka Ms. Claus, got to meet Kamala Harris, aka Margaret.

I had to have Ms. Claus hair...

It was great fun, and the kids loved running around, playing musical chairs and freeze dance.  They had a Nerf gun station, and a potion making station with pop-rocks.  The did crafts and colored and had pizza, and prize bags.  It was really a nice evening.

This fine day, I got up and went to the pool.  The warm weather blew in, and it's like summer here today.  I puttered around and organized things today, threw out two bags of broken toys and old coloring books, dried out markers, and random stuff in baskets.  I filled a bag of toys for the thrift store too.  We simply have too much stuff, they don't play with everything when there's so much, it just gets dumped out.  I have a motive too, a new bookcase to be put together, then sanded and stained.  So things will get rearranged, and of course sorted.  

Tomorrow, I am planning to take Camille driving.  We haven't been doing that, she needs to get her driver's license.  We are going to go to Margaret's house up in the city on Lake Ontario, she has the best trick-or-treating location.  Kathryn and Darius with Achilles, Rhys, and Jamie will go, Sam and Grace with Grant, Ruth, and Rhys, Evelyn, Camille, me...Jonathan and Rosie...Ev, Cam and I will give out candy while parents and kids go trick or treating.  We're bringing lots of lawn chairs to relax and enjoy the weather.  It's always so much fun to give the kids lots of candy too.  

There will be Domino's pizza, and I'll bring a cooler with some cold drinks.  No hot cocoa this year, ha.  

Officer Tennyson, and Mario aka Achilles

And, an oldie:  Molly Rose with Jonathan...:)

Ah well, it's dark and cozy in here, and warm, the window next to much chair open, love it.  Have a good evening!