The Auldridges

Even though our neighborhood is odd and refuses to do Trick-Or-Treating on the actual date of Halloween, and thus we completed that activity 2 days ago, we carved our Jack O’Lantern tonight. I should have had that done a few days back, I suppose, but these things sneak up on me. Regardless, it is still in time for the actual Halloween day, and looks good. There’s pictures if you care–and I know that you do.

After the carving, Shari roasted the seeds of the pumpkin for the kids to eat. They gobbled them up, and then Shari broke the bad news to them–they can’t drink water for several days because the seeds will sprout and grow pumpkins in their bellies! They weren’t sure they believed that until Shari called Papa (her dad) and let him explain that it was, indeed, the case.

Tonight is also the night that clocks will turn back. While this is the better half of this bi-annual occurence because we gain an hour, it is also somewhat difficult because it means the kids will probably be up even earlier tomorow since their little internal clocks haven’t reset. This being the case, we are keeping them up an hour later than usual tonight. To help Shari and I with the mental issues this can bring about, we’ve opted to go ahead and change the clocks in our house. That way we aren’t looking at the clock and thinking, “golly it’s getting late, we really need to get them to bed!”

Speaking of which, we’re nearing that time now so I suppose I’ll get off here for now and help out with that routine. I’ll post more later and tell about the small visitor we had overnight last night–how’s that for a cliff hanger!?

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