Homeschool Halloween

Canadians "do" Halloween! It is a huge deal here. The girls dressed up as Princesses and dressed Luca up as "Lucachu". Then they hung about the front door gnashing their teeth until dark. The three of them raided every house on our crescent and returned with pounds of candy! Happily they took as much delight in handing out stacks of the muck as well. I threw 3 sticky - sugar-hyper kids into the bath and then had to read to them for 2 hours to get any of them to sleep.

tomorrow should be interesting - sugar withdrawal symptoms and detox. And rules. We have a rule that says that they can help themselves to a piece of candy (small) after they have eaten a fruit or had a full glass of water. It has been a wonderful rule - so much more peaceful than always deciding if they can have the stuff or not. (Oh, and - not at bedtime or before breakfast! Eeew.)

I had the loveliest compliment - one of the neighborhood kids (12 year old) came over last night and asked me for help - she needed a costume and said since I was so creative and had everything here - please would I help her. So sweet! Well, when you ask like that you are certain to get help from me!

I dressed her up as an Elizabethan duchess and tonight she came over and I painted everyone faces. I took the opportunity to explain to them that they need to carry perfumed hankies as part of the costume...why...because the ladies back then seldom bathed and never brushed their teeth and they had just discovered sugar. They were rotten and stank.

Brushing teeth after moderate amounts of sugar is a good idea... water of a ducks back on Halloween! Still I had to say it.

She said - "Gee - you know everything! I wish I was home schooled!" as she dashed out the door to collect her own pile of candy.

oh well...

Now then - I was going to say all sorts of other things when this week happened to us.
I will post on single parents on Monday!
Then I shall get back to my original thought on peer groups!
Can you tell that we home school? Ask me a question and I drop everything else to answer that! Still I return!
Chat soon!
K