Flashback Friday - October!

As we barrel headlong into the busy, busy Halloween season, here is a look back at some of our other, more mundane October activities:

This may look like an early Halloween decoration, but unfortunately it is the homemade headstone of Squeaky's grave, Harriet's beloved pet rat who passed away earlier this month.

We buried her under the bottlebush tree in the front yard next to Storm, Jack's pet rat who passed away a month or two ago. We had our pet rats for about 2 1/2 years, and they died of old age after a good life. We miss them.





Our district had a school holiday for Yom Kippur, so Jack went to work with Pete (whose school wasn't having a holiday). He spent the day meeting the kids and people Pete works with and helping his dad out with tasks around the school. Martin Elementary's VIP visitor:

with his dad at his school in Santa Ana

if you are one of our kids, these are your hair color choices


photo by Harriet (our mailbox)

Pete recently spent three days in San Diego for a conference - the highlight for him was eating menudo and mole in Old Town San Diego, where he picked up these suckers for the kids

The week of October 18 - 26 has been Red Ribbon Week, where the kids learn about the ill health effects of tobacco, drugs, alcohol etc. and make pledges to live drug free

They receive red wristbands to wear which can be presented to local merchants for discounts

our campus decorated with red ribbons


Friday is wear red day for Red Ribbon Week



And lastly, Harriet would like to announce that she is now publishing her own blog, I will link to it from our sidebar, or you can find it here

and in all fairness I should announce that Jack has started his own blog as well, although I don't think he's been as diligent on posting, you can find him here