Choices!

Sometimes there are just too many good choices and you have to pick which you want most to do. Tomorrow is Halloween and the older children have really been looking forward to going out trick or treating door-to-door. The past two Halloweens they have been in Mexico with Grandpa Tim & Grandma Karen, so they missed out on fully celebrating Halloween. The trade off of a vacation in sunny Mexico was worth the sacrifice of Halloween, but this year they are home (they return from their Las Vegas trip this evening!) and they are ready to hit the streets to knock on doors.

So what's the problem with their plan? I need to figure out the timing. Matt and Kara are in Paris so we are short two adults in the household. Opa has an event he really, really, REALLY wants to attend--it's ukulele night and there is a rumor that The United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra who are in town to play some concerts (Mark and the boys have tickets to go tomorrow) might stop by Guidos to play with their ukulele group. Mark wants to be there. The boys want to be there, too, but not as much as they want to go trick or treating.

Another problem is that our church ward is doing Trunk-or-Treat at 6PM and Viva is at gymnastics until 7:15PM. If we pull Viva from gymnastics early to make it to the church by 6PM (trunk or treat lasts less than a half hour--it doesn't take long to walk around a parking lot), then Viva will miss more than half of her gymnastics session and she's already missed twice while in Vegas. And, of course, we have to rush out of Trunk-or-Treat to get to Guidos in time to get a good ukulele seat. 

So what are we going to do? What do we throw out? We are going to confer with the kidlets and see if they desperately want to go to Trunk-or-Treat. Maybe we can skip it and just go out trick or treating? Or Viva can skip and the boys will share their treats? I'm going to talk to Grandma Vicki and see if she can help us to juggle all the balls. I don't think the youngest two need to go door-to-door, but if they don't I'll have to stash them somewhere. Opa would not do be able to talk ukulele with the hoped for guests, if he has two toddlers racing around him.