Aside from Christmas, the most popular holiday in the Carr house is Halloween. The girls start talking about what they are going to be around November and sometimes modify their ideas as the year rolls on. This year Jordyn never wavered from her original “dead fairy” costume and although we only came up with our costume ideas in the last week or so, Julia was the one who changed her mind a couple of times over the months leading up to this week. Now in the end, we kind of helped her change it back to “the devilish girl” that she first suggested, so long ago, because we had already lined up some stuff for the ensemble.

Nathalie and I, for the last 3 or 4 years, have been big fans of alone time. Without a doubt, we love our kids and enjoy our family time, but the trick keeping those times filled with love and fun, is to recharge with just us time. This weekend, for the first time it what seems like a couple of months, we called in a team of sitters, and left for Niagara Falls. Now, we are on a budget, so shopping online in advance was the key, and Nathalie found the deal of the century – $97 for two nights at a newly renovated, “two star” Days Inn close to the falls. So far, it is clean and aside from the 2 spiders, the tap that will not shut off and the light that you have to hit to turn on, all is good. We hope to stop off in the US for a quick trip to Target, and maybe lunch, but other then that, it is nice not to have plans.

When I was younger, other then the normal wanting a family and good health, I had three things I wanted to do in my life. I wanted to write a hit song, I wanted to write a book and I wanted to be in a movie. The funny thing about time and wishes is that they have an odd way of affecting each other and in some cases adapting and morphing into other dreams. Now, I still want to be in a movie one day, but my other wishes are a little more realistic. For a syndicated radio show project I was writing and producing a couple of years ago, I was I was able to write a song, and have it recorded and although the process was simple enough, the song and the project never got passed the demo stage. However, being easy to please I did check it off my original list