brilliant!

Have you ever had people who read about this party on your blog actually show up? Just curious…

Um, never really thought about it. I would say that at least 60% of the people at most our parties are strangers.

Come as you are. Just be cool. Don’t fight, don’t steal and don’t drink + drive.

That’s a lot! Sounds fun. However, I would earn bad parent of the year award if I drove to Portland to party and shirked my parental trick or treat duties.

me too anne, me too. damn kids and their insashable hunger for candy! i actually just looked it up in the ye old parenting handbook, and it does say that taking candy from strangers trumps taking alcohol from strangers….

aw man, i just realized that i actually live about 4 miles (or 10mins) away! noooooooooooooooo! maybe i can do both…

Yes! Jessica you should come!!!

Dude, Jecka. If you figure out how to fit in parental duties, chocolate and alcohol into one evening, you are dangerously close to achieving the mom’s trifecta. If you could just figure out how I could do the kid thing in Seattle and the party thing in Portland in the same night, you’d have it made.

And yeah, there is something weird about encouraging my kids to take candy from strangers when I spend the other 364 days of the year telling them not to.

well, i guess i could have guilt-tripping-sex with my boyfriend and make him watch my kid after all the trick-or-treating hoopla….but that means i would actually have to touch penis…..hmmmmmm. tough choices.

Yeah, I don’t know girl. That’s a tough call.

wow. this has gone from a comment string to a full on forum! i love it!

bring the kids. i’ll team them how to do the worm and take jello shots.

oh i dont know about that, my son is already predisposed to being an alcoholic, i’m trying to hold off on the jello shots until he at least turns 8. ya know, like my mom did! lol

Dressing up, dancing and jello? My kids would be totally sold.

The last time I took my kids to a party (that was maybe more for grown ups than I realized) my three year old blurts out LOUDLY, “I’ve got a Woody…and a little Buzz”. I kid you not everything stopped and everyone was looking at me. He had just gotten some Toy Story toys for a gift- ya know, Woody and Buzz Lightyear? I will never forget that!

LOL! Anne that just made my day hhahaa! It reminded me of when my little sister was about 4 and blurted out in pre-school “My Dad says get naked and have fun!”. We still to this day have no idea where that came from. My poor dad has never lived down the embarassment. Kids are so damn funny! haha

Lauren: is your sister currently a stripper?

She’s 15 Ben. Do you know what that makes you? A Darsh-Perv. Congratulations

well, my son called his teacher a whore. all family guy episodes were immediately banned from the house. lol.

Jecka: NICE! That’s a grand slam insult. How old is your son?

Lauren: I don’t know where kids get that stuff! My friend’s 2 year old told me the other day that her mom and dad like to wrestle in their bed… I’m thinking there is some truth there.

Anne: my son just turned 5 back on august 1st. oh, this morning he was watching the news (which he loves to do cuz he’s a weirdo) and they were talking about how Obama wants to cut taxes, and he turns to me almost horrified, and says : mommy, Barack Obama wants to cut TEXAS! hahahahhahaha

Jecka: That one had me laughing out loud for real. Awesome!