Yesterday I finished up Simo´s and Samu´s school Halloween party costumes. I had to do some sewing, because they were both too big (Samu had Simo´s old costume and since Simo wanted to have a police man dress I had to buy an adult´s dress and make it smaller. Simo wanted to dress as a police man – he has always been into police things – and Samu as a medieval knight. Their school has each year a Halloween party organized by the English language classes. It´s actually weird that Halloween is celebrated in Finnish schools in this way, because it is so American thing. …actually I don´t like the idea that kids dress up as monsters and evil spirits, even devils, witches, and so on. It feels so unchristian. Glad Simo and Samu were satisfied with their policeman and medieval knight dresses! But even teachers were wearing some devil´s/ sceleton/monster´s clothes! I´ll include pictures of the kids in their costumes. Today I left work earlier to take Samu to his party, parents were allowed to be there too. This party was for grades 1 – 3. Then I drove Samu home and took Simo to his party which was for grades 4-6, so tonight I´ve been doing some driving around. When I fetched Simo he told me that all the monsters had been running after him screaming “Arrest meeeeee, please please please arrest me!!!” 
Some teachers had also commented on his costume saying it was good that there was a policeman with them to make sure there is order. Simo himself was not so happy about all the attention he had got because of his costume…
It´s raining again really heavily. It was difficult to drive because of the rain. It did not rain when we left from home so Simo did not have an umbrella with him. We were all wet just from running across the street to the car. It can be like this until Christmas. After that I hope the rain will come down as snow. If we are lucky we will get a white snowy Christmas time, but lately the winter has really come only in February and lasted for about 6 weeks. But winter can wait – now it´s the rain period. We have had now heavy rains. Usually end of October and November are very rainy. But I think your rain is heavier than ours. But last weekend for example it was a real storm. It was raining cats and dogs and the wind has been blowing so hard that some trees had fallen on streets and in many places the electricity was off for a while because some trees had fallen on the electricity wires. And guess who had to go out with the doggies in that weather! Brrrr…. Even the dogs seemed to refuse going out in the beginning. For the first 100 meters or so they tried to turn around and go home. When they realized they had no choice they came with me, but on the other half they were pulling so much that I had difficulties. They were in such a hurry to get quickly back home. How spoiled pets 
… So the deep autumn has come now. Some of the trees have already lost their leaves today during the storm. I love the early autumn (because of the colours) until the leaves fall. After that it looks so naked everywhere. Then it´s just waiting for the spring again. Some people love winter, but I must say that i never was a winter-person. Winter is always hard work because even to get the kids ready for school takes a lot of time, because I must put on tehm so many layers of clothes. It´s much better in summer. Spring and autumn are ok as well, but if I could decide I would cancel winter Of course we hope for snow for Christmas, because it´s beautiful, but I don´t like the extra work that winter means and it´s too cold.
