What to Do? I love Halloween. It's been a million years since my own kids trick-or-treated, but I still love carving pumpkins and handing out treats. But what about this year? Do I want kids crowding on the porch? Will parents even allow their kids to go door to door? Halloween 2020 We only get a handful of kids each year anyway, so I figured I could find a safe way. I put a mask on Jack and then decided nobody wants to see a pumpkin in a mask...especially a flaming mask. I use candles. Prep Don made chili, because we always do that on Halloween and I made my plan. I wanted to keep kids from crowding onto the porch... if we for some reason we had crowds. I put a table at the edge of the porch, with a bell and some hand sanitizer, just in case anyone cared. An odd set up. Candy? I didn't want tons of leftovers, so I bought only a little candy. Then I worried. What if I run out? I supplemented with some wrapped fig cookies that we happened to have on hand... odd and curious cookies from the international store. Then I wondered if kids would cringe and say, "What...?" Like I did, when I got a can of Campbell's Soup one year, when I was a trick-or-treating gypsy. My Sweet Butterfly! All the prep was worth it, just to have some fun with my little Butterfly Neighbor! When I heard the bell ring through the open window, I threw on my own mask and grabbed the basket. My sweet friend turned around and showed me her wings and I asked how old she was. "You're four? Then you need at least 4 treats!" I scooped up 4 offerings, with my tongs and plopped them in her blue pumpkin. I will never forget her little face, smiling behind her mask.
A few other kids came. All happy and polite and most with masks... 2020 style. One little "Lacrosse Player" used his lacrosse stick to reach for his candy. It was a perfect night for trick or treating. Balmy, with a full blue moon AND it was a Saturday! But I can't say it was a perfect Halloween.
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