My parents and my sister came over, I made dinner... and anxiously awaited all the little goblins that were to come a knockin'. 6....6:30.....7.... NOTHING. I had about $30 worth of Costco sized bags of candy and I maybe had five kids the whole night! What a let down. At about 8, the doorbell rang and I thought, maybe just maybe I'd open the door and there would be this onslaught on middle school kids....no.... just the in-laws.
My mother-in-law proceeded to tell me how they were over run with kids and they left the house because they didn't want their doorbell ringing all night with nothing to hand out. Just RUBBING it in my face.... not really... but I was so disappointed at the low turn out in our neighborhood. When we moved in and saw the wide range of ages of all the kids living around us, we were excited for the next few years when we get to take Hailey around. But now we see, we're going to have to DRIVE to Town Square or some other fake Halloween experience, just for her to get to babble "twick or tweet" to the GAP manager for one lousy Snicker's bar. What a gyp.
The hilight of the night came just before the family came over and Lee realized Lucy did not have a costume (neither of us dressed up). He gets up and says he's going to run to PetCo to see if they have little bat wings. I told him to make sure he gets the medium size not the small, because her chest is too big for the smalls (I have a strange feeling I will be saying the same thing about our daughter). 20 minutes later, Lee comes home- not with bat wings... or a hot dog costume... or even a witch's hat. He came home with this:
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