My Halloween

Where to start my post?

Do I talk about the fact that my husband lost his job that he's had for the past 5 years?
Do I blog about Halloween and how we ran out of candy?
Or how about my costume that I made (yes that's right I made) that took 5 days to make and I only wore it for one party. So for Halloween I wore it to hand out the little bit of candy we had.

I guess I'll blog about it all. And yes it will probably be depressing because I just need to get vent.

First off my husband did lose his job. He's got another one lined up, but due to the fact that we are going to Austrailia they won't start him until December. We are not those type of people that have money in savings just in case. We live week by week and up until now we've been just fine. We have been able to buy all the stuff that we've wanted and not be house poor. Now we are wondering how we are going to make our house payment next month. I am stressed! I've tried to find a second job to make ends meet, but again we are leaving for Austrailia over Thanksgiving so all the places that are hiring seasonal work don't need me because I'm missing the biggest shopping day of the year. It makes me sad because our Austrailia trip was suppose to be relaxing, but how will we relax knowing that every dime we spend we don't really have. My husband is trying to do odd jobs to help us get by, but I'm really worried. In the end it all works out but getting to that point is the hardest part.

NEXT

We ran out of candy by 8 pm. Due to the fact that my husband is without a job we didn't feel we needed go into debt to give the kids in the neighborhood candy. I felt horrible! I love halloween, I love to see all the kids costumes, I have a blast on halloween. This year it just made me sad. After we ran out of candy, we shut the lights off outside. I thought it was common knowledge that if there were no light on outside the house then they were closed for buisness. Nope not in our neighborhood, they continued to ring the doorbell. I tried to ignore it, but they kept ringing!!! So I had to make a sign that said SORRY WE OUR OUT OF CANDY. Do you think that stopped them... nope. So we finally turned off all our light inside the house. And watched a movie.

AND FINALY
Each year my family has a Halloween Party at my sisters house. We all dress up and have a blast. This year I decided to make my own costume (as opposed to my mom making it or buying one). My mom has always made our costumes since we were little. And not just the type where she sews a patch on a pocket and calls us a scarecrow or puts us in a trashbag and calls us a dancing raisin. She makes our costume with a pattern, fabric everything. So this year I wanted to be an Egyptian. (I think it ended up being more Cleopatra but she was egyptian right?) I bought the fabric, I picked out the pattern and I spent 5 days at my mom's house sewing my costume. And it looked great! But I was sad that I spent 5 days making it and only 4 hours wearing it. So yesterday I got dressed up in my costume and handed out candy. At least I got to wear it for another 3 hours.

So that was my weekend, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Well maybe not the ugly part but it seemed to fit.

This is the costume that I made. I say I made even though my mom had to hold my hand through the entire process. I'm very proud of my costume. I may be the same thing next year.



This is my husband is costume #1. Anyone that knows him, knows that trying to get him to dress up is like pulling nails. But he was a good sport and played along. He even wore two costumes though the second one wasn't much of a fight for him.




This is costume #2 for my husband. He loves Mullets. So it was easy to get him to wear this... not so binding... lol
(the other two guys are my cousin and my brother, Bob is on the right)