halloween!!! friday ashton had his costume parade at school. wednesday night i realized that i couldn't overnight his costume for halloween because obviously he needed it friday morning. WHOOPS. i had the hardest time trying to pull it together this week! i don't know what happened. bizarre. so thursday on my lunch i went to target and purchased one of the two remaining thomas costumes and a duck costume. he sleeps with a duck every night, daisy, so i thought it would go over well. thank the lord. and which one did he pick? yep - the duck. he wasn't too keen on the whole hood thing, but he wore it for pictures; that was good enough for me.
saturday during the day we headed to mom's so she could adjust my wilma costume. i like going the authentic route and making my own instead of buying one. i wore it a few years ago - doubled up two pillowcases and make a necklace out of styrofoam balls. i also had a leopard print bag, looped around an enormous 14-inch dog bone. it rocked, if i do say so myself. i was supposed to go to a friend of a friend's party, but there were no lights on, it was raining, and i couldn't see the house numbers. GAH! i hate it when things like that happen and go awry. i tried for 10 minutes, and called the friend (no answer) before giving up and heading downtown to hear big boots. which is where i got roofied.
i had a new sitter from MBC, and i needed to be home around midnight - perfect. i had two drinks. and apparently something in the second one. i do not know how i managed to accomplish the things i did last night, but i woke up this morning with my red wilma flintstone hair, fake eyelashes still attached, and my costume and accessories on the floor in the kitchen. i managed to write the sitter a check and deadbolt my door.
i am so thankful nothing happened to me. i am absolutely livid and appalled that someone can do that to someone else. i can't even wrap my head around the "okay" someone has with themselves when they decide to do that to another person. i am grossed out. freaked out. paranoid. traumatized. relieved that i made it home okay. talk about some angels.
after my costume adjustment, we did nap, and then went up the street to a friend's house who had lots of kids over. poor ashton; every time we've been there he has had an attitude. i hope it's because both times he's been on the tired/sick side. it's embarrassing. i know i'm not supposed to take it on, but seriously him talking to people like that and being nasty like that, i feel is just uncalled for and is a reflection on me. i think he needs to get out more, socialize more, and hopefully that will help with the adjustment.
we left there, headed to our old neighbor's house - they always do the nicest things for him and make sure everything in his treat bag is ashton-safe. so, so sweet. from there we went to dude and grandma's house, and walked over to sherwood for the festivities. i was proud of him for walking up to three houses - and if you've never seen sherwood, it's over the top ridiculous fun. the police close off the street, and most of the people participate and decorate wonderfully. but ashton has a fear of toys that move by themselves; doubly so if they are loud and move by themselves. one of the neighbors had taken a huge RC truck and put a spider on top of it. he drove that thing right up to ashton's feet and i thought the kid was going to have a heart attack. he's the only scream i heard all night! and it was a true, blood curdling scream. poor kid. he got teary eyed just talking about it this morning.
he finished his prednisone today, thank the lord. i wonder if he actually has the H1N1 like his aunt laura did. not quite sick enough, but sick for weeks. i just feel like that might be what it is. hmm.
today is daddy day, and i have some things to do, people to see, work to get done. i don't feel like it, but i'm on it.
gratitude:
- angels
- laughter
- being single
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