Yesterday morning Matt left the house to find a surprise on our front door step! We had a Halloween goody bag with lots of fun stuff inside. It came with a little poem about 'passing it on to two other people'. So I set it all up yesterday and I'm just waiting for the photo copies of the papers to pass it on tomorrow to two other neighbors. Maddy enjoyed going through the goody bag and it was really cute to set up two new plastic pumpkin candy pots with various assortments of halloween stuff inside.
Speaking of Halloween. Maddy and I may have a fun Halloween party to go to tomorrow with one of my mom's groups. We're supposed to bring a Halloween snack but I was lazy and if we go I will bring store bought Halloween cookies instead. I did buy a Halloween themed cake mix and frosting container, but I will bake that for my playgroup I'm hosting on Monday instead. On Friday we have a Halloween birthday party in the afternoon for Maddy's friend Annabelle who will turn two. That will be fun although I'll need to get Maddy down for a really early nap and then we'll still be late since her nap starts at 1 normally and the party starts at 1 as well. She's not totally missing her nap!
I was able to bring home three more pots last night that I made on the wheel...except... I forgot them! So I waited until 10:30 this morning to go get them. Traffic was still horrible, but I guess there was a huge accident before 9 am and the lanes were closed down for almost 45 minutes so the traffic I hit wasn't as bad as it could have been. I still tried to wait for as long as I could for rush hour to be over. They look nice though and they were still in the room.
Yesterday, Maddy had her watch me grow class as well. She's really great at singing the songs and loves to run around and play. It surprises me how quickly those 45 minutes go. We also stopped at Target before hand for some necessary items. Of course, I forgot some more of the stuff, so I wound up going to Walmart after my class last night and then out to the grocery store today! I think I finally have it all together now.
It's grey and rainy here today. I probably should be doing more during her nap than just sitting here. But well, I'm tired. I'd take a nap too, but I can never guarantee how long she'll be down to sleep. And sometimes some sleep is worse than not enough sleep. So I've stayed up instead, had a nice cup of tea, caught up on email and the like.
Tea of the day: I had coffee two days in a row first thing in the morning, but now I'm having Bigelow Gingersnappish herbal tea.