Ohhh, as always, Emmett is adorable! Happy Halloween, Darlin! Here is a photo of my darling daughter when she was about Emmett’s age. She was born 2 months prematurely at a whopping 2 lbs 14 oz. The NICU nurses all called her their “fairy baby”. And so, I dressed her as a fairy baby this particular Halloween. DH keeps this photo framed on his desk. Anyhoo, she grew and thrived and is now in her second year of grad school. For me, Halloween has many very happy memories.

We moved into our home during a year when Halloween fell on a Friday, and we had many kids. We like to give out king sized bars so I always buy too much as our numbers fall tremendously during the week. I'll be curious to see if Halloween 2020 will have big crowds again! We are doing a home remodel so I set up in our driveway. We only had about 25 kids so I let them take 2. Usually I only let them have 1. Honestly I'll probably go back to that policy because a few sly ones took 3 or 4 thinking I wouldn't notice! I don't want to encourage greed. I have quite a bit leftover. I might donate it but I've never done that before. A local dentist is buying it back for $1 a pound and sending to troops.

Happy Halloween! I bought a pumpkin today because they still don't have pie pumpkins out. I found one that seems ripe and a big drier than the average Jack o'Lantern. It may become soup, or lasagna, or both. I was also feeling low on sugar, so I bought some big, crisp blueberries, and they're lovely, and just enough tart, but I don't know if it's enough sugar. Maybe a one bite Twix is the thing after all... (I always buy a bag of candy, but the neighborhood kids are grown so it's rare that we get a trick-or-treater.)

We normally average about 100 kids. I did up 50 baggies of candy this year (I was going to do 100, but decided to do 50 and give the kids who did show 2x as much as I was planning). We handed out 44 bags. We put a fence up about 2 feet from our step making it an easy 8 feet from my front door. The kids would yell "Happy Halloween" and we would get up, santize our hands (my front door is all glass so they can see us do this), then put on a mask, go outside and hand them their candy. Not one parent complained about us not using tongs (if you have covid and don't clean your hands you put the virus on the tongs which puts it on the bags so it defeats the purpose IMO) and putting them in their childs buckets and bags. They were all just grateful that we handed out anything as more than half the houses on my block were closed for the evening. :( My son took his son out in their area and he pretty much hit the jackpot. While I gave him a box full of Nestle full size bars (his favourites are all in one box), a lot of the people in their area also handed out full size bars and one house gave him a family size bag of Cadbury Buttons chocolate. His mom was the most excited about the full size Fun Dips. hahahaha We have a little candy left over, which I'll give to my grandson as well.