Cruises, Cookies and Costumes

For our anniversary in September, Jody booked us on a cruise for the Bahamas that we went on over the weekend. It was great to have some time to ourselves. We've been on a cruise before and I got seasick SO I was prepared with "the patch" to help with the motion sickness. Apparently I am in the 25% that the patch does not help. I felt OK when we left port and we went and ate lunch, but as dinner neared, I felt worse and worse. Jody even went to the lobby and got a motion sickness tablet for me to take. Surely the two of them together would help. Unfortunately they did not. As we entered the dining room, I KNEW I would not make it though the meal. I did make it back to the room though before getting sick. Another motion sickness tablet didn't help either. I spent the rest of the night in the bed. The next day in port was MUCH better! We found out later it was so bad they cancelled the show that night because they were afraid of the dancer's safety.

We'd been to the Bahamas twice before and it was good that we were not intent on sightseeing because it was raining. YUCK!! It did give us a chance to get back and take a nap. The water was so gorgeous and blue. I always forget how absolutely breathtaking it is.

The rest of the trip was wonderful. Our steward was an adorable fella named Nelson. He reminded us SO much of our local Dr. They could have been brothers. On the last morning of the cruise, we found out that the children's pediatrician and his office were on the cruise with us. What a small world!!


We came home to Homecoming week, Red Ribbon week and Halloween festivities at school. The children dressed up yesterday in Halloween Costumes for school. Linds is a Pirate, Micajah is obviously Superman and Heyward is Gabriella from High School Musical. Lindsey Kate won best costume for her class. Last night we got with our church group and ate dinner and went on a hayride while Trick or Treating. It was cold but SO much fun.

Every day this week they have dressed up in a different thing for Red Ribbon Week. It supports saying NO to drugs. Today was wear your pajamas day. I forget how that relates to saying no to drugs. Anyway, Heyward was SO funny. She wanted to wear mis-matched clothes and wore her hair half in rollers and the other half sprayed all over like a TERRIBLE case of bed hair. Hope she wins!!!

We laughed at Breakfast yesterday when Jody said he wanted to dress up like Barak OBama for Halloween. We told him we had seen a Barak mask at Rite Aid. He got the last one. He had the most fun of ALL last night dressed as Barak and harassing the children.

I don't usually make things for the children's teachers for Halloween, but found some adorable containers at the Dollar Tree on a recent visit. I baked cookies on skewers, iced them and arranged them in the containers. They turned out SO cute and smelled SO good. We have 9 teachers this year, so this was quite a feat in itself. Sorry the picture isn't better. It was the best I could do as I hurriedly tried to get the children out to school yesterday. We even forgot Lindsey Kate's assigned contribution to the Halloween Party. I had gotten them, we just forgot to take it yesterday morning.