Busy Night

Last night (Halloween) was a really busy night where we were all on the go, going in opposite directions.  Andy nailed it by describing tonight as exactly what he doesn’t want his life to become.  All we did was run kids.  I left work early to get home to take Jude to karate.  I brought Asher with and we arrived just in the nick of time.  Asher sat still on my lap, totally fixated on watching Jude do karate, and wanting nothing to do with me, although he hadn’t seen me all day.  He’ll be a karate kid someday.  Jude had a blast at karate.  I was thinking of heading straight from karate to Jude’s bible memory club, but decided to swing by the house.  When we pulled into the driveway, I realized Jude had almost 15 minutes before we had to drive to bible memory club.  I asked him if he wanted to go trick-or-treating and if he wanted to be a doctor (as he had planned) or a karate kid (since he was already wearing his karate uniform).  He opted to go as a karate kid, which was the easiest option.  Andy took him to 5 houses and he scored a quart of candy.  I then dropped Jude off at bible memory club and then went out trick-or-treating with Levi and Asher (it was their first time out, as it was Jude’s).  It was just a total last minute decision to even go.  Thankfully the neighbors had given us some free costumes for boys that fit perfectly — Levi was a stuffed Tiger and Asher a stuffed dragon.  Levi had a blast and didn’t want to quit.  We did most of our block and then headed home, since I thought I had to pick up Jude from bible memory club.  Andy decided to pick Jude up and we were all reunited at about 9 p.m.  Then when Jude realized how much candy his brothers had gotten (more than 2x the amount he got), he thought it would be a great idea to pile it all together and sort it out.  He ended up with over half of it, as I expected he would.  The night was fun, but a little too busy.