Halloween!

It was an interesting Halloween. The kids split up this year. Aaron, dressed as "Harry" went with his friend Grace, who was "Hermione". Joe went with another red-eyed phantom friend. The girls went out with their next door neighbor. And I stayed home for the first time this year and answered the door. It was the first year there was no crying, problems, tantrums, or even complaints! And it was the first year with kids I didn't feel stressed out on Halloween. Busy, but not stressed. It was nice to see happy faces return home.

The night was cold and the snow from the weekend's pre-winter storm was mostly melted. Neighborhood kids had built jack-o-lantern headed snow men and snow-witches on their front lawns. Most of the trees that had been damaged by the storm had been cleared. And the leaves remained on the trees because of the late summer we had. Though our town was spared, many of the surrounding towns had to cancel trick-or-treating because so many of the homes were still without power. Those poor kids!

Blue fairy princess...or something like that

Harry

Dorothy

Scary phantom