Monday, November 1, 2010

Tricks and Treats

Treats:

  • To the kids, for coming up with several great costumes, and rotating them through several Halloween events over the past few days;
  • To the people who build a "fire house" every year, transforming their charming two-storey into a house full of fire and a mandatory stop on our trick or treat route;
  • To all the folks who sit on their front stoops, in costume, and make our kids' Halloween night fun;
  • To the students who run Safe Trick or Treat on campus every year, and give our kids props for their costumes;
  • To the places you go to paint and carve pumpkins, ride haycarts, and drink hot cider;
  • To the weather gods, who allowed October 31, 2010 to be a balmy mid-70s in the not-usually-so-balmy midwest.

Tricks:

  • To the folks who stole our friends' yard decorations, even those made by their kiddoes;
  • To the folks who make pumpkin smashing an annual sport;
  • To grandma's candy-ometer, for deciding that a pinata for two kids is "not that much candy";
  • To the students who think that 5-7 pm means packing up your booth at 6.20, because you all have some other place to be;
  • To the folks who decided that two separate field trips by bus on one day, followed by a party and a parade was both a good school day and an appropriate amount of turmoil for first graders;
  • To the parents who let them do it (yes, we take our share of blame in this too).

Okay. We'll do it all again next year.

7 comments:

  1. The flaming house sounds amazing. I wish I could see it!

    We had a pretty good time ourselves. We got together with friends, and a bunch of kids went out for candy together. I sat at the house with two other people and our tired, cranky baby and watched the Giants game. Awesome! Seriously.

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  2. Fie: Sounds great! That's the thing, though. It's all great: just too much of a good thing, some times!

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  3. Two field trips, a party, and a parade? Dude.

    And ditto on the people dressed up in their driveways!

    Glad you had fun!

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  4. GEW: yeah we had fun, and it'll be a blast next time too. But we have an anxious first grader who has sobbed both school days this week: "but I don't know what I'm supposed to do!" Argh. A routine! A routine! My kingdom for a... well, you get the idea.

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  5. Has the regular routine been disrupted? Or is the crying a post-Halloween extravaganza withdrawal?

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  6. Both, I think! But it has sent her off the rails, so we've changed up a few things. Hopefully we'll get back to normal soon!

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  7. Yay for the treats!
    Boo for the tricks.

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