I must admit my mom did most of the work and I kept all the grades.

Sign of a good mom in my book. With all the kids that have parents that just don't care and help with nothing, I'm sure the teacher was happy to look the other way when she saw your project. I just recently started relinquishing any sort of control on projects. The kids are getting old enough to put something together that isn't total crap I guess. Ha. Maybe it is somewhat a pride thing for moms too - we can't send out kid among their peers with a poster board that looks like someone spilled orange juice on it...

Ah, years past, when people gave something out other than candy, even if you were scared to eat it. Now days its just gmo filled sugar and stickers not appropriate for children. Ha. That's cool you liked the apple stickers. Kids are funny like that - they will find joy in a gift. Kind of reminds me of the adult version of that, which in my case would be seeing a book has arrived in the mail, and I know what it is, but I get to open the package. The package is sort of exciting like that apple sticker.

How was Halloween without children? Fun or blah? My sister (whose kids take off on their own) gave away over a hundred hot dogs and a bunch of fireball shots as a kid-free Halloween in her front yard. And apparently it was great. That is another big change from when we were kids - nowadays a bunch of houses give adults alcohol. Maybe that's just an American thing, idk. Americans are finding ways to make it an adult holiday I guess. I had my first taste of Fireball (not at my sister's house - apparently Fireball is popular on Halloween night) and it was gross. Tasted like Robitussin. It was Robitussin flavored Jello in a little plastic cup which apparently you are supposed to drop into your mouth in one disgusting gob of congealed cough syrup, or otherwise hopelessly stab at it with your tongue, which feels almost as inappropriate to be doing in front of children as that sticker I found in my son's trick-or-treat candy. Frankly, Fireball Jello shots are a horrible invention. Anyway...

Nice to chat with you as well. That paragraph up there is massive and I'm compelled to condense it like any decent person would, but I'm not going to, because inappropriate stickers and cough syrup alcohol exists in this world, so clearly things are imperfect.