The Beal/Cannon Family: A Lot of Happenings

I got a message from my mom last Monday, "No blog from you??? NOOOO!!!" Ha. My biggest blogging fan. Let's see what we missed. We went trick or treating. That was very fun. Ryan was adorable. He would run as fast as his little legs could take him to every house, amazingly HE DID NOT FALL. Miracle. Piper was hilarious. She was very concerned we were lost (we were across the street from our house) and she was ready to go home after about 10 minutes, maybe 5. She barely made it. We do not trick or treat for very long, we go down our tiny cul-da-sac and then across the street to a little loop. Apparently too long for Pipes. We love this route, we've done it since Corbin was a baby. It's short and sweet and they still get a lot of candy and GOOD candy. I'm always impressed by the candy our neighborhood gives out. I think because there are few trick or treaters people buy the good stuff. It's great, we love it.

My birthday was on Sunday. We went to Sherry's for breakfast. Later that day Scott took the kids away so I could be home by myself for a bit. I love when I can be home alone sometimes. If I need a break I can always leave the house by myself but sometimes it's nice to be alone at home. That evening I invited one of my friends over with her family to eat dinner with us. It was fun.

Other than that I'm busy with my kids. I'm also trying to make a lot of new friends. I want to still keep my Mormon friends but things are weird and I doubt they will ever be the same. I'm on a couple of local post Mormon facebook groups and I've met some awesome people on there and I've already formed some friendships. I've also had a bunch of playdates with some of my friends from my Christian book club and we are starting a post Mormon book club this week. We will see how that goes. I kind of feel like a misfit toy and like I don't fit in anywhere but I relate the most to post Mormons for sure. We understand each other completely. It's nice to meet with people who totally understand your perspective and don't think you're crazy or that you've been deceived by Satan. Anyway it's kind of awkward to talk about this stuff, but at the same time this is my life and this is what I'm dealing with and I don't want to have this weird secret life. It is what it is. I'm trying to adjust to post Mormonism and it's weird and lonely at times. I feel like my life has been flipped upside down and inside out. It's very disorientating, but I'm also a very proactive person and being happy is important to me. I've had to become a sort of semi-stalker these last couple of months. I've reached out to total strangers and formed a lot of friendships. Scott has been feeling quite a bit better lately. He's trying to find a temporary job until his Amazon business hopefully starts making enough money so he won't have to work a regular job. That's his goal anyway.

Yesterday my friends from my ward took me to breakfast yesterday for my birthday. We went to Kneaders, so good. It was fun but kind of weird. Ha.

The kids were out of school again Thursday and Friday. Luckily the weather has been dreamy this November and we spent some good time outside. Being outside is so good for my mental health I think. Good stuff.

Ryan has been so funny lately, when you ask him to do stuff he's always like "fine, fine, okay." "Ryan will you..." "Okay mom, fine, fine." It's hilarious.

On Friday night we were telling the kids to start getting ready for bed. Corbin said, "Who sends their kids to bed at 7:39 on a Friday night?" Ha. Don't worry we didn't send them to bed that early on a Friday night, (I wish, ha).