Ignoring Halloween
It's Halloween today and I've done nothing about it. I usually like the idea of getting the kids dressed up, buying loads of candy and really enjoying the holiday. But this year, I let it go for 3 good reasons:
- we're all getting over colds (Jake is still under the weather)
- every adult in the house was at work tonight other than me and I couldn't handle it all by myself
- we live in the last house on a cul-de-sac, so I wasn't very confident about getting many visitors anyway
So, I'm slightly embarrassed to report that around 6pm, when the trick-or-treat-ing normally starts, I turned off the lights in the kitchen (at the front of the house) and closed the blinds.
I am pleased to report that I didn't have to ignore any knocks on the door because no one came. In fact, when Stephen arrive home from around 6:30pm, he reported that there were loads of kids out on the next block but that our whole block was dark and quiet.
What can I say? We're grumps among grumps.
