here comes halloween.

My kids have figured out what they want to be for Halloween. Elise wants to be a bag of sour patch kids. Jake wants to be Mr. Krabs from Spongebob. Claire is going to use Elise's witch costume from 2 years ago. So that's 2 costumes I need to make. Hopefully they'll turn out ok. I love making costumes. I am not much of a seamstress, but I do ok with a glue gun.

This past Friday was my birthday. It was also the REAL Columbus day. Ben and I went out to Carrabbas for dinner. I was craving some of their calamari. We were going to go see a movie, but nothing looked very interesting, so we went and rented some movies.. We watched Miss Potter and Blades of Glory. Both were pretty good.

Ben has been busy on the weekends doing his photography stuff. It'll be nice when he starts bringing in some extra money. It does sort of suck that he isn't home on Saturdays. That's usually when I recover from the previous week and do a lot of my errands.

I just finished reading Team of Rivals. It's about Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet members. It was really good. Abraham Lincoln was pretty awesome. When it came near the end of the book, and I knew he was going to die, I kept putting off finishing it. I really didn't want him to die. Stupid sad endings.