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Halloween Parties 2018
By: Jack Date: October 26, 2018, 5:56 am
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I just thought I'd take a minute to discuss these, since the
first of them is tonight.
I have way too many kids at too many schools to make Halloween
parties an easy thing. At BCA, I have Liam, Van, Zeke, Kaden
and Colt and Billy and Emmet. At the public high school, I have
Parker and Leif (and Joel) and Chandler. Devon and Kenny both
attend the public middle school along with Jake and Ryan Tucker,
there are Connor and Curtis at the elementary, and then there
are grands.
The public high school kids turned out to be least problem.
Parker has an A/V club party, Joel has the band party, and
Chandler and Leif both have the Scout party, and I didn't have
to host any of those. For that matter, Devon has a football
party Saturday night, and he's happy to go to the game tonight,
so he's not a consideration either. Despite being in different
levels at different schools, Billy and Emmet and Colt and Kenny
and Ryan Tucker and Leif are all pretty good friends, so that
let me break things down into three groups for this weekend: the
8th and 9th grade kids, the older elementary and the younger
kids. There is an event at the Family Center (Van and the
Phantoms will be playing) and Liam is going to attend that.
That only leaves Kaden out in the cold, but he knows he's
welcome to go with Liam. On the other hand, he's very good
friends with Colt and Ryan Tucker, so he'll probably just hang
out with that group.
Tonight, I am hosting the party for the older elementary kids,
and Jake will probably be sneaking into that (Jake is a 7th
grader, but not especially mature, and he does spend a fair
amount of time with Kline and the older grands, though he might
also visit the middle/lower high school party tomorrow night).
That will be Glen, Kline, Adam, Andy, Eli Marchant, Brandon
Malone, Ennis Strouse, and a bunch of their friends from school
and from the neighborhood.
Tomorrow night is for the younger teens. After a few cold,
rainy days (and with the Halloween forecast looking questionable
at best), this weekend is supposed to be warm (upper 70s and low
80s) and clear. That's good. While I doubt this will be a pool
party, it is going to be a boy/girl party, and a lot of it will
take place on the patio and in the back yard.
As for Sunday, it's mostly going to be an afternoon party -
snacks and carnival games. A 'haunted tunnel', and a movie
(probably Monster Squad).
If you'd like to read a bit more about how we do Halloween here,
there's an article posted on my site. It's several years old,
but, while I've changed out some of the displays and
decorations, the basics are still accurate.
HTML https://bransomtx.com/halloweenathome.html
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: Lia Date: October 26, 2018, 6:04 am
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Sounds like a fun weekend. [emoji1]
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: Zyngaru Date: October 26, 2018, 9:34 am
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Seems you have figured everyone in. A very busy next few days.
;D
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: kalico Date: October 26, 2018, 11:32 am
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I hope everyone has a great time and it all sounds like fun.....
Good luck and enjoy
Hugs kal
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: David M. Katz Date: October 26, 2018, 12:27 pm
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You should add this to your Halloween decor:
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HTML http://funkyimg.com/view/2MtWg][IMG]http://funkyimg.com/i/2MtWg.jpg[/img][/URL]
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: Jack Date: October 27, 2018, 10:10 am
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We did have a great party last night. I naively assumed that,
because it was mostly 10 to12 year old boys, I'd be okay on
snacks. Having assumed that, I have to make a supply run today,
before I deal with the actual teenagers.
I fed my own boys beforehand, and I served stuffed jalapenos,
chicken nuggets, mini cordon bleu (okay - I might have eaten
most of those myself), mini corn dogs, mac and cheese bites,
pigs in blankets, pizza rolls, bagel bites, taquitos, mozzarella
bites, Irish nachos, sweet potato puffs, veggie bites, corn
nuggets, Hot Pocket snackers, sliders, chips and dips. I had to
special order a few of those ahead of time, so I'm not sure I'll
be able to reveal everything. Fortunately, most of it can be
found locally.
We did have a good crowd last night, including a number of my
students, but everyone was well behaved. The kids are at that
awkward age where they're too old to play many party games, but
too young to get into them ironically or out of nostalgia. WE
did have a 'pumpkin hunt' where we'd hidden small, plastic
pumpkins which were numbered around the block, and the kids drew
a number, then had to find their own. While it was also
marked for 'over 13' we gave an Escape Room (The Werewolf
Experiment) a try, and it worked pretty well. We had a couple
of goofy games - witch race and pumpkin toss - then they retired
to the theater to watch some 'scary' cartoons before I let them
have some free time to visit, before most went home, and it
turned into a slumber party for the rest.
Unfortunately, everyone was well behaved, but I did hear a
couple of other reports I'll be sharing elsewhere.
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: db105 Date: October 27, 2018, 10:23 am
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This must be a lot of work to organize, but very rewarding.
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: Zyngaru Date: October 27, 2018, 10:50 am
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Mini Cordon Bleu's. I would have had to fight you for those.
;D ;D ;D
10 to 12 year old boys are the perfect age. Yes not little boys
and not yet teens, but they are the age where they are so
helpful and want to be helpful. I loved that age at summer
camps. We always got the awards for best cabin, because they
wanted to please and do what needed to be done. Younger boys
wanted to but weren't old enough or big enough to be that
helpful and 13 and up, just didn't care, they just did what they
had to.
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: Jack Date: October 29, 2018, 6:17 am
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It has been a VERY busy weekend, but a very good one.
I mentioned in chat that my mom got a new refrigerator this
weekend, and I had to supervise the delivery (and help with the
installation), and there were some problems that ended up with
me having to make multiple trips to Loew's (a home repair
store), and replacing a number of other parts of the plumbing.
Except a sore shoulder and cramping hand from having to work in
a really awkward position, it wasn't actually too hard, and it
is kind of fulfilling to be able to do work yourself and repair
problems.
As far as I can tell, the kids had a great time.
Referring to today's BOTD scenario - my house is indeed large
enough that I can be having a party, and still have other kids
segregated from it and not locked in a room. That's because the
kids' bedrooms are in two groups, each of which is off a common
room. As long as I make it clear that there are penalties for
leaving their areas (and provide food), then it's rarely a
problem. On top of that, the two guests rooms are isolated from
everything else, but those would be more for punishment if
someone was confined to them. Of course, that's much easier in
nice weather (which we had this weekend), when most of the party
can take place in the backyard and on the patio. On the other
hand, I did farm out most of the boys who weren't at a specific
party, having them spend the night somewhere, or just giving
them a little extra money to attend a movie or haunted house.
Except for being a bit shocked at the appetite on the pre-teen
kids, there weren't any problems (I have been throwing kids'
parties for a while now). The worst part was having to make
multiple trips to the store.
I am still upset with George W. Bush over changing out daylights
savings time. It was 7pm before it was starting to be actually
dark, but that was the time the kids were leaving. I had a
bunch of glow sticks, and we had a couple of games we wanted to
try, but it never got dark enough to do it outside (not enough
room inside). In the past, DST ended the last weekend of Oct,
which was almost always before Halloween. Now it ends the first
weekend in November.
Anyway, I think it's fair to say a good time was had by all. I
know I certainly enjoyed myself, what with having all those cute
boys and handsome teens running around for the weekend. I
wasn't even upset that everyone behaved.
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Re: Halloween Parties 2018
By: db105 Date: October 29, 2018, 8:25 am
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=911.msg9637#msg9637
date=1540811830]
I wasn't even upset that everyone behaved.
[/quote]
I know you are joking there, but in any case someone misbehaving
so much that a spanking was needed would be the exception rather
than the rule for this kind of parties, right?
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