When asked what they would like to do for Halloween this year, our kids requested that we lay low.  That we keep our trick or treats in the family this year.  I suppose there is wisdom in that- the years are briskly whipping by.  So fast that even the babies are remarking that it seems like we just started school yesterday.   Instead, Halloween came and went, and with it the potential of Gigi’s last trick or treat.  She knew it, we knew it.  So we did it big this year.

  
Jude was Link, from Legend of Zelda, while Gigi wore the costume for Reese, the recycle maiden from her favorite game, animal crossing.  I was a last minute scarecrow for the costume carnival, but on Halloween night we were Pooh B ear and Tigger, just like we used to be when we first became a family.

But this year we promised them that we would go for as long as it took to wear them out.  We didn’t need to head back to our house or think of anyone else this year.  This year it was all about them.  We started at 5:30 with our direct neighbors, and by 6:30 we had completed our entire street and we’re ready to head into the fun neighborhood where everyone from school trick or treats!  Arriving there was like a Speilburgian fantasy, straight from the 1980’s with kids running like mad through the streets.  It’s terribly fun.  We managed to run into Jude’s “secret crush” and several friends from both kid’s classes.

  
After that, both kids said they were tuckered.  But we promised an epic night of begging trick or treating, and by golly they were going to get one!  We headed to the third, and final, neighborhood.  Those people were over trick or treaters, it was 8:00, after all, so they dumped their candy into our kid’s bags and turned off their lights.  We headed home at last to survey the damage, and it’s pretty safe to say that we did epically well.  This was a year for the record books! 

 
Update: one week later and most of the candy is still left.  Neither Bradley nor I have eaten any of it and the kids are treating it like a rare, natural resource that is hard to come by.  I suppose that’s true of our house, these days.  ðŸ˜‰

  


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