Saturday – Terri and I took the kids to the “Fall Festival” thing at the church. It was all about pumpkins and costumes and candy so I have no idea why no one will call it a Halloween Carnival around here anymore. They all call it “Fall Festival” and “Harvest Festival”, etc. But you wear costumes and get candy and do Halloween stuff. Anyway, the kids had a really good time. Everything was free, food and everything. They had the jumping castle and the slide and horseback rides and so on. Dusty and Cody spent the night at my house that evening also. I think they all had fun.
Sunday – the time had changed so getting up early didn’t feel so bad. I made pigs-in-a-blanket for Tyler’s Sunday school group. Then I cooked Cajun Cabbage (for the first time), chicken strips, and other stuff for Donnie and Terri and Mickey who came over to eat and visit. Keith and Jenifer were there also for football day. I made banana bread and cinnamon bread and a chocolate cake. I just cooked all day Sunday while they watched football, and enjoyed the heck out of it. I made a comment to Rusty on Sunday about how nice it was going to be this week not having anywhere to go at night, but I was totally not thinking……….
Monday – We were supposed to have band practice but Rusty was too far behind on cigarette work and we both had lots to do at home so he cancelled it and put it off til this coming Saturday. I took Tanner to mom’s to visit with Papaw before he went back to Alabama. Tanner and Papaw carved a pumpkin together and had a good time. 
Tuesday – the big night arrived! We went trick-or-treating in Chris’s neighborhood with Donnie, Terri, Dustin, Cody, Mom, Dale, Naomi, Mickey, Kyle, and Blake. We had a good time as always. The younger kids got tons of candy, the older kids went off on their own but didn’t get candy. Tanner just totally thought I should have a costume on, so I braided my hair and stuck a couple of feathers in. All of us older folks outlasted the kids – the kids were tired and ready to quit way before we were. Since it was the end of the month, it was also our “restaurant night”, so we took Mom with us and went to eat at Rowdy’s. We enjoyed the food and the visit. 
Wednesday – I usually never can remember what we do on Wednesdays. Wednesdays are just usually uneventful I guess, but not this week. Wednesday morning when I first got to work I opened my classroom door and right as I was stepping in I noticed something fall from the top of the door. There are 2 versions to the rest of the story. There is the version you might get if you had asked a 3rd grader at about 3:00 that afternoon, and then there is the version that is the truth:
3rd grade student version: The music teacher had a 6 foot python/anaconda/rattlesnake/cottonmouth (different breed in every story) fall off the ceiling right on her head this morning! It bit her right on the neck and she nearly died! But then the principal came along with a big axe and tried to kill it but it was striking at him! He cut its head clean off, though, before it could bite him too. They buried it’s head by the cafeteria and it’s body down under the hill. This is a combination of various things I heard throughout the day about what had happened to me hehehe.
The REAL version: I looked down and it was indeed a SNAKE that had fallen off the door and onto my foot. A baby one, maybe 18 inches long. But still a SNAKE. On my SHOE (not my head, thank God). I tossed it off my foot and got down the steps as fast as I could. (It did NOT bite me). The snake just stayed there slithering around on my steps and I sent a kid to get the principal. He came and killed it with some kind of tool that resembled a hoe. I have no idea what kind of snake it was. A little country boy that happened to walk by seemed to think it was a rattlesnake but I have no clue. It was multi-colored, but I didn’t take notice of any patterns or size of its head or any other thing that the men at home asked me about. But I guess it had climbed the side of my trailor and was crawling somewhere along the top of my door when I opened it. CREEPY. The rest of my work day just kind of went right along with that too, kids were wild and I had no time to stop and think.
On Wednesday evening we had been invited to the church of some friends and family of ours. A friend of ours 17 year old son was going to deliver the message that evening, as well as play in the worship band. So we were looking forward to seeing it. The 4 of us went. We watched the youth band play 2 or 3 songs and enjoyed it. But the very moment that Zach got up there to begin preaching, Tanner looks at me and says, “Mom, I don’t feel so goooo…………” and then he grabbed his mouth with his hand and I knew exactly what was up. We managed to get out of the sanctuary and at least TO the bathroom before he exploded. But, bless his heart, he was SICK. Bad sick. And made a HUGE mess all over the bathroom floor. If you ever want proof that our cousin Ken is a saint, I’ll just tell you about how he came in there and helped me clean that bathroom up. I could never even consider asking someone to do that, but he insisted on helping me. That was very nice of him. He got a mop and between the 2 of us we had it cleaned up in about 20 minutes. Unfortunately we missed all of Zach’s presentation. But Tanner was much better after that, and impressed at how much he had thrown up. It’s a little boy thing I guess.
Thursday – I had a very busy morning and did not get to breathe until about 11:00. I checked my phone then and saw a message from Tyler from 8:00 that morning telling me he was very sick and needed me to pick him up. So I rushed out and picked him up from school, even if it was a few hours late. By the time we all got home that afternoon he was much better also. Guess it’s a stomach virus or something. The rest of Thursday ended up being mainly a day of rest. I began sorting through all my pictures on my computer, gonna try to organize them all real soon. We got football pictures and school pictures in:
Friday – We had our 6th grade musical program today and they did very well. We had fun working on it, but I always have that “glad it’s finished” feeling after a program is done. And that’s where I am today. It’s been nice and cold outside the last few days, hope it stays. We have band this weekend, but nothing else scheduled for I don't know how long. So perhaps we might have a boring week or 2 for once hehehe.
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