Cake Walk

October 8, 2010
This week has been horrible. I've been on the verge of a nervous breakdown, panic attack, or major depression, I can't decide. I'd lost all patience with everything and everyone. And I wasn't looking forward to another evening of fighting.

Jeff must have felt the same way and decided that instead of staying cooped up in the house where a meltdown was bound to happen tonight, he'd take us over to the carnival at the elementary school. I wasn't sure I wanted to go but I'm glad I did. It was nice to get out, even if we had to bundle up Cole to keep warm. I could have done without the 3,000 families crammed onto the school's playground area but hey, maybe everyone else was needing a break too. Pearl had a great time getting her face painted and spending her tickets on the games and balloon animals. She played ring toss, shot a Nerf gun at owls, did Plinko, and downed a bag of popcorn. I was very impressed by the PTA because all the prizes were non-food items. Seriously, wow.

But the best part was the cake walk. It brought back memories of going to the Hillcrest Elementary Halloween Carnival that my grandma helped run. They had the most awesome cake walk and after years of going, I never won a single cake! Seriously they must have had at least 10 dozen homemade cakes at the it but year after year I could never win. So I was hoping we'd have better luck this year. With only a few tickets left, Jeff decided to we would all play to win. And win we did! Pearl and I both won! It was SWEET! Pearl picked out some pink cookies and I let Jeff pick out a pie for my winnings.

The carnival was really fun. We didn't fight the entire time, Pearl and Cole were on their best behavior, and we all laughed as we "raced" home. Today wasn't so bad after all.