Annie helped me with a sign for the library.

It turned out great!

One of my students felt bad that Annie was sick on Halloween and brought in a bag of her own candy for her.

We didn’t have any less leaves this year.

The cats still look the same.

My school’s football team had a heck of a season and we got to watch them play at the Bills Stadium. It was an incredible experience (made even better because they won).

The girls’ school did a special breakfast for Veterans Day and so Dave got to spend the morning with them.

That kind of fast-forwarded us through the first half of November, but there you go!

Here’s more from our October. Maggie’s teacher challenged them to decorate a pumpkin like a book character. Maggie picked Charlotte, the spider from “Charlotte’s Web.” Then, after learning that a classmate had picked the same arachnid, changed to Wilbur.

Adam and I went to a football game at my school.

Halloween didn’t go exactly as expected. Annie had a great day at school.

As a special surprise, Mabel went in and did a craft with Annie and her classmates.

But poor Annie got sick on the bus ride home and wasn’t able to go trick-or-treating.

Thankfully Aunt Amanda stepped in to take the older three out until Dave was able to get out of work.

If the costumes look familiar, you’re right. They were supposed to be last year’s costumes, until we were quarantined due to covid.

Annie is hoping the mailman costume fits next year so that she can try again. The poor girl was really looking forward to trick-or-treating (she doesn’t ever remember going). Thankfully the bug was just a 24-hour thing.

And that wraps up October!

Annie learned about fire safety at school.

The girls and I went for a nature walk and saw a snake (not pictured).

And we saw a wedding about to start (also not pictured).

One of my high school volunteers made these for the library.

And we put the cats in Halloween costumes (they did not approve).

Well, actually, soccer has been over for Adam for almost two weeks now, but I still wanted to share these pictures.

His team did really well overall. It was great seeing them work (and have fun) together.

They got to play a couple of games under the lights – which would have been a lot more fun for everyone if the weather had cooperated. Both times the temperature was under 40 degrees and it was raining/sleeting/snowing.

I’m not sure when in the season he decided that mismatched socks would be his thing, but it made him happy.

#1 was definitely my #1 this season. 🙂