happy holidays

did a thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws, held a thanksgiving supper for my parents, went to a family dinner at my parents, then the Brown Family Christmas at Trenton.
I start shopping early, which was very good this year since I totalled out a car & wouldn't have had $ to even start now. Have a gift or 2 left for Katie & will be done.(?) I kind of wanted to get a family Wii & new tv for the 'family' room this year, but will have to put that off.
the big & small trees are up, the reindeer on the front porch, the stockings on the wall, the nativity on the entertainment center, the snowflakes in the window. still decorating the tree. we've even had the first real freakin' snow.
planning the girl scout xmas party, took off work to volunteer in the craft room at the school xmas party. kevin & I selected xmas cards at Wal-Mart. Have already rec'd my xmas card wallets from Snapfish.com.
I plan on ordering the new Clue game for us to play this holiday season.
kate needs snow boots that she will consent to wear. no luck at Wal-Mart...
do I have all my bases covered?

Re: Halloween

it is a tradition in Mercer for pumpkins to be stolen & broken all over the square on Halloween, they'll burn an outhouse if they can find one. Koren was dancing on broken pumpkins on the square when she was in 6th grade, I think, & fell & broke her arm.
One of the girls we were trick or treating with pointed out several huge dead rats on the sidewalk while we were walking...they were on different streets. Her theory was someone killed them because it was Halloween. I was thinking they were coming up out of the sewer because it was Halloween....
today was the traditional pick up trash day...the entire school spends an hour at the end of the day picking up the after affects of the holiday...