After my shower Cal, Grace, and I went to the bank and opened a business checking account for Free the Mind Productions.  Exciting!  Another step in the “business direction”.  While at the bank Blessing, my oldest daughter, met up with us.  She was all aglow from spending her first night in her first apartment.  I am so proud of her.  She passed through the tears and made it over the hump… out of the nest and into the world of independence.  As we browsed the door pulls at Hobby Lobby, a feature she intends to add to her kitchen door cabinets very soon, I asked her how her first night sleep went.  Was she bothered by all the new sounds and the foreignness of it all?  She said, “Not at all.  I felt perfectly at home.” 

At Walmart we both made keys for each other to exchange.  She needed another of mine since I gave Grace the one she had.  While the keys were being cut Caleb said to me, “I should have a key to your apartment for the times I come over really early and you’re still in bed.  That way you won’t have to get up and let me in.”  How can you say no to that?    Also bought another Monopoly Game for my kids so they have one for when they’re here.  The idea came from their frustration of having to pick it up and take it home every time.  I suggested that they start a game and continue to play no matter who is or isn’t here.  That’s a lot like real life… someone slacks off in their business and another, sharper, more on the ball business person grabs up their slack or a business simply tapers off because they don’t do the work to keep it alive.  However, they will pay rent to the ones that own certain property whether or not they are here, because in real life they would get those earnings.  They have to begin the game with everyone who wants to play for at least 1 1/2-2 hours so everyone has a shot at the start.  The kids loved the idea and now I have a way that I can play with them.  Monopoly requires quite a time commit.  So I typically bow out since I’m usually working while they’re here.  Now I can bounce in and out for short periods.    While at Walmart I also bought a large Rubbermaid pitcher.  One of those items that I never seem to get purchased.  The plus was that the sucker was on sale, $2.50, can you beat that??  So while Blessing chose her Kool-Aid packets, Caleb used my pitcher purchase as a reason to sway me into “finally” purchasing Kool-Aid for them.

Left my kids at 12 o’clock, still in Walmart with Blessing to go to a meeting for John Solomon and myself for the purpose of beginning to give shape to the idea that resulted from the meeting earlier this morning.   We also worked to get the new, super great mic that John Solomon has loaded onto his computer.  However with all our efforts and Apple’s support, we still don’t have lift off on this installment.  However we do have a work ticket in with the mic company…next week.

Four hours later I was one the road toward the home of the twins that I care/work for so their parents could go out.  At 7 the calls from my sons began with their requesting, then complaining that I wasn’t going to get home early enough to bring them to my house to sleep over.   Lot’s of ideas were shared.  None were going to fly.  Like, “I’m almost 11 (in 6 months) I can stay there by myself.”  Nor did it work for any older sibling stay here with them till I got back.  On the other hand Grace is here.  She was at a party that was done at 10:30.  15 minutes after I was done working.  Sarah went and got her and I met them in their driveway right about the time they got back.  She fell asleep long ago on my couch watching “The Robots” movie.  Which I left running and is just getting done.  Perfect timing.  Because I’m done…

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane

-I quit working on my business and arrived at their home arrived at 2 and began to bake Halloween cookies for all my kiddos. I made the Nestle Toll House Pumpkin cookies and the Pillsbury Shape cookies with the ghosts. Pillsbury won hands down.
-Put the face tattoo on Zachary as he wanted to be a tiger. I was a little nervous about this full face tattoo working out well. But it pretty much turned out fine. We had some parts that broke apart, but luckily between his glasses and the long bangs he sports it covered the discrepancy.
-Around 3:30 I did Graces make-up, she had a party to attend before Trick or Treating. Then I did Caleb’s.
-Sat down at one of their computers and researched some more about E-books and sunk deeper into a new forum I joined for bloggers, it’s called Problogger. So far it seems quite helpful. I’ll keep you posted.
-Then it was time to do Dan’s make-up, which he wanted me to hurry because he was going Trick or Treating with, you guessed it, Brent. He had waited a bit long to come and get ready. I had sent his sister to get him earlier but he decided it was too early, it could wait. Sooooo, he ended up being the one having to deal with the time it took me to do it and for the pictures that I insisted we were going to take. He made it out the door with a bit of time to spare, but you know how kids are. They want to get going…..
-Then Grace returned. John2 arrived and changed. Caleb dressed. Leah, John2′s sort of girl friend arrived. We left.
-We went house to house for about a half hour and Sarah and her friend arrived to join us. More fun!!! I was so glad to have Sarah with us her schedule with her school I don’t see much of her at all anymore. Sort of catch glimpses of her.
-Took lots of pictures. Took a little video, but doubt it will be any good, too dark.
-Finally 2 1/2 plus hours later we returned to their house to size up the booty and compare what treasures lay within their bags. I have to say Grace is awfully possessive of her Peanut Butter cups! Man. John2 split his with me. Zach let me have a couple pieces from his bag then said, “Don’t eat it all!” As if!
My kids are loaded with more candy than I think they’ve ever pulled in. Those hefty sacks are going need monitoring and piece mealing! Scott, their father, will be complaining in the morning when he sees all they got.
-I got a hankering for a movie, but none of us, me included, wanted to do a late show at the theater. So we scanned Hulu. Free movie streaming from the internet, furniture realigned, Leah, John2, Daniel, Me, Zach, Ben, Grace blankets drawn up around the chin, Caleb snuggled up under my arm and off we went into “A Dog’s Breakfast”. OMG I laughed till it hurt. We all laughed till it hurt. It is a dark comedy, perfect for Halloween. It edges up to Halloweeny material. I’m not saying more than that. I don’t want to ruin it for you. Just watch this movie!! I intend to own it one day. I will add that thankfully Dan and Cal zonked out. Kept me from having to tell them they needed to go to bed because the content would creep them out too much. But that was only because of their age.

Love ya,
Theresa Jane
-who will post more pictures tomorrow, now it’s 1:47 AM and I need to hit the hay!