On the Halloween games, one that is always popular is to divide the kids into two teams. Have the teams pick one person to 'wrap'. Give the teams cheap rolls of toilet paper (the cheaper, the better)and the first team to wrap their mummy from head to toe are the winners. Always good to remind them to leave eyes and noses free of the TP.
Go to the internet to get ideas for other games or activities for the party.
Snodderly is spot on with the financial advice. Try not to let what you can't do anything about at this time send you spinning. It will work out.
I truly get what you are saying about having it all fall on your shoulders. I felt the same way for a while. My perspective started to change when I realized that the decisions I was making on my own actually most of the time were sound and worked out. I felt less and less put upon. I always had a plan B, just in case. I even started to appreciate the fact that I didn't have to take anyone else's opinion into consideration.
