Brrrring...Brrrring...
Alan: Hello?
Voice on phone: Hello?
Alan: Well, good morning, Helen! You're up early! (The Meems usually sleeps until 11AM.)
Meems: I won a prize!
Alan: You won a prize!? Well, let me put you on speakerphone so that Carolyn can hear this!
Alan padded into our room where I was still cozy under the covers trying to enter the World of Awake. Not too successfully, I might add.
Alan: It's your mom. I'm going to put her on speaker.
Me (yawning): Good morning, Mom.
Meems: They gave the Best Costume prize to a couple who were dressed up like a doctor and a nurse. (She always jumps right into the business at hand.) Then, they gave a prize for Funniest Costume to a guy in a blown up suit. I think he was some sort of wrestler.
Me (trying not to remind her that Alan and I had seen the doctor, the nurse, and the sumo wrestler the night before when we went to Raider Ranch for the "photo suit"): He was a sumo wrestler.
Meems: That's right. And, I won a prize for being the Most Halloween-y!!! (She giggled gleefully as only the Meems can.)
Me: Most Halloween-y?! Congratulations, Mom!!
Meems (more giggling): A couple of people told me in the hall that I looked really cute!
Me: Well, you DID look cute!
Meems: I have to go! I'm going to Tai Chi!
Click.
And now....
I present to you...
Raider Ranch's Miss Most Halloween-y!
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| My costume? I was sporting an orange and black pashmina. |
Let me tell you...that Raider Ranch knows how to put on a Halloween par-tay!
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| The Witch's Brew punch was located conveniently next to the fire alarm. |
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| The Worms and Dirt pudding was especially wormy and dirty. |
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| The obligatory bloody cake was insightfully topped with a plastic arachnid. |
But, the best part of all?
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
The bewitching photo wall!
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| Mom and Leonard, her best friend Sorry they're not smiling. It took us forever to get their faces lined up with the holes. "I need to bend down?" "Where do I put my face?" "Now what do I do?" |
On the way to church this morning, Mom asked Leonard if they gave away a Best Witch prize at the party.
Leonard: Yes, they did, indeed.
Meems: Oh. I guess that means I came in 4th Place.
Poor Meems. At least she'll always have "looked cute in the hall."
Poor Meems. At least she'll always have "looked cute in the hall."
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