James-A-Day: Wrapup
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I just realized that the James event is over. I thought I had one more day to go! But no, it is 10:30 PM on Halloween, and October is pretty much over now. So I missed doing "The Fenstanton Witch" after all. I was so busy today that I didn't even get past the first two pages. Here's what I did instead of reading one more MRJ story: made the kids do 3 hours of school in the morning ( "But Mom! It's a holiday AND your birthday! You deserve the day off!" Nice try, kiddo. Now tidy the schoolroom.) Took the kids to the ever-marvelous Annual Pumpkin Drop at the college, in which we test various theories of gravity by dropping pumpkins off the 6th-floor balcony. Igor was kind of off this year, BUT they also threw 250 super-bouncy-balls all at once, which was very cool and resulted in utter chaos. Went out to lunch with two good friends, yum. Carved jack-o-lanterns (I'm always late), fetched pizza for dinner, spent at least half an hour doing