(Grace and Hattie on our road with their Thomas trick-or-treat buckets)
Grace had school that day. I dropped her off and ran to do some quick visiting teaching treat drop-offs and came back for her school Halloween party at 10:30. They did a "play." Mrs. Reardon read a scary story and the kids acted it out. They worked on it for a long time before-hand and it turned out really cute. Then, they had Halloween games and TONS of treats.
Oh, wait, excuse me. In Massachusetts where everyone is politically correct to a fault, we can't call it a Halloween party. The school called it a "Harvest Party." We were told to NOT wear halloween costumes, but that the kids were making harvest masks to wear. Unfortunately, you get punished if you follow the rules. I told Grace she couldn't wear her costume to school, but half of the other mothers let their kids come in costume, so the kids whose parents did as they were asked were tortured to watch their friends parade around in costume. I was really mad about that. Anyway, they did parade through the high school with their masks. (Grace's pre-school is a high school program where high school kids help certified teachers to run a real pre-school.)In the end, a good time was had by all. We raced home from school to eat a quick lunch and get Hattie down for a nap. I promised Grace that we could carve pumpkins, so we did that together and then she wanted to make Halloween drawings on the driveway which required picking up leaves first, so that took quite a while. Then we raced inside to clean up our house a bit for some friends to come over and shortly after that, Hattie woke up and it was 4:00 and time to trick-or-treat the neighborhood!
We only have about 4 or 5 houses to go to in our neighborhood. They are mostly retired couples who delight at seeing the kids which makes it really fun. We have lived here for 3 Halloweens and have only had a sum total of 3 trick-or-treaters at our house. None this year.
Our first stop was to Roger and Jeanne's. They are our dear people and wonderful neighbors and fantastic friends. They are the elderly couple across the road from us - I'm sure we've mentioned them before. They are like grandparents to Grace and Hattie.
After this quick trick-or-treat run, we headed to the other side of our town to our friends the Smith's house. They invited us to go around their cul-de-sac and stay for pizza. So, more trick-or-treating. Grace was in a full run around the neighborhood and we could not keep up with her. Hattie was just mellow and was so polite and took one treat for her bucket and just went with the flow.
We got home after 8pm stuffed with pizza and candy and way too tired to light our jack-0-lanterns. In fact, we just lit Grace's today! We had to light the one that she picked on her pre-school pumkin patch trip.
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