Thank you for the knowing nods. It really helped.

Cricket3 - I am with you about Halloween. I have only managed to avoid your situation because before my procrastinations are all used up my mother usually comes to the rescue by sending the girls a costume that she has made for them, based on conversations she has had with them in the previous weeks. (She is a tricky grammy - the girls have never figured out how she knows "just what they want to be" heeheehee.)