Here’s my week:
- first quarter grades and comments for all my students were due this morning at 8:00 AM
- pumpkin carving contest with my advisory this morning– each grade had a different theme, ours was historical figures, the girls made a post-guillotine pumpkinhead-Marie-Antoinette
- just getting over strep throat
- birthday dinner for my sister Thursday evening
- distributing the 130some boxes of Girl Scout cookies people ordered from my kids
- husband starting to pre-emptively freak out about law school exams
- waiting anxiously for all pieces of the girls’ Hermione costumes to arrive in separate boxes from Amazon (cloaks/wands arrived today, Crookshanks and books still to come)
- baking two pans of Thin Mints brownies for both the girls’ Halloween parties on Friday afternoon– I’m missing the Halloween parade for the first time, but hoping to make the parties
- arriving at the girls’ school at 7:30 Friday morning to help decorate classrooms
- working all week with frantic seniors panicking over essays November 1st deadlines
- transporting kids to Spooky Music party thrown by kids’ piano teacher Friday night– I’m planning to get grading done during the 90 minutes they’re in there
- helping throw a Halloween party Saturday afternoon for about 15 second-graders and four-year-olds at my friend Karen’s– I’m baking spider cupcakes for sure, also planning an art project the kids can do as they come in
- actual trick-or-treating Saturday evening
So you know what I’ve done twice now? Ordered groceries online through Peapod. I never thought I’d be that kind of person (whatever that means), but a friend had good experiences with online grocery ordering, and they are running a special deal where you pay full delivery price for the first order ($8.00 for us) and then get free delivery for 60 days if you spend over $100 each time. We’d done it twice, and have had wonderful results each time, and I have to say, it’s made a week like this one just that much easier.
See you in November!
so not preemptive! ;p
I’m the blogger, I get final say
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Did the costumes come together? (I’ve only EVER had problems with Amazon delivery twice, and both times, it was when I had a rare deadline.) Elba was Hermione last year (but I didn’t get Crookshanks: well done!), while Gemma was Ron and Wilder was Harry. This year, Wilder was a clone trooper while Elba was herself, but as a Hufflepuff keeper (we spent a ridiculous amount of time figuring out that, in the movies anyway, Keepers get #1) while Gemma was Fred Weasley in his Beater’s robes (and she decided that he would be #2, and George would be #3, due to alphabetization, although that’s got to be movies-only, because if the book robes had numbers, Lee Jordan would be able to tell them apart).
I finished the robes, but not the faux-leather gauntlets and shin guards. Sewing and faux leather: SUCK.
I’ve only ever heard of girl scout cookies in February/March — has that changed recently? Regional variations? Do tell.
The costumes came together perfectly! The Crookshanks are actually pretty cute, but it opened the door to a whole word of HP plush the girls are now lusting after, including Hedwig and the Monster Book of Monsters! We saw many other HP characters, including their best buddy Sam who went as Harry, complete with black wig and Quidditch robes, and a little Ron Weasley who dyed his blond hair red!
This is our very first involvement with Scouting since my own lone year as a Brownie way back in the late 1980s, so I have no idea. I have to say that I’d prefer February March to the insanity of trying to coordinate the cookie sale through Sept/Oct and all the ensuing back-to-school craziness.
Miss Thing, don’t you feel bad about ordering groceries online! When I lived in NYC, I ordered from Fresh Direct all the time, and it was quite addictive and fun in a dorky way! I think it can help you stay on mission and just get what you planned to get rather than tossing impulse buys into the cart. Plus, when it arrives it’s like getting presents, only the presents are food. Anyway it kind of sounds like you have enough to do … I’m just sayin’
You know what’s funny? Once I posted about it on Facebook, I realized how many people I knew had been ordering their groceries online, and then I felt like a chump for waiting so long!
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