Once again, we joined Vinny and Kenny along with Michele for some trick-or-treating after school. From about 3:30pm to 6:00pm, we walked their neighborhood and watched as the two burglars and the karate kid filled their pillow cases with treats (250 was Logan’s final count later that evening.)
Some of you readers may not know about the newer way to leave out candy when you’re out and about with your own little goblins. Well, what happens is that the kind parent leaves a bowl of candies or treats on the front steps. Some of us leave a note attached asking to only take one or two pieces. Others just leave the candy with the hope that the children will not dump the entire contents of bowl in their goody bag. Every year, I come home to a few straggler pieces at the bottom of my bowl. (pssst! Logan doesn’t agree with me but I always am surprised to find them when we come home; so I know I’m right!) This year we had a few firsts.
Let me begin with the Karate Kid. Logan decided to hand out “free class” coupons for his karate center a.k.a. his dojo. For every child that winds up signing up for a month of classes, gives Logan a $50 credit at the dojo to use for classes or products. So we put Logan’s name on all coupons and taped them to the candy that we left in our bowls as well as left one behind at all the people’s houses that left candy for the kids. In those cases, the coupon had a “thank you for the treat” message written on them. Hoping that with the 50 given out, Logan may see at least one possible credit. So that was a first for us – truly capitalizing on a holiday.
The second first was that when we got back to Michele’s house. Not only was the bowl empty…it was missing. Looks like some little prankster thought a good trick would be to take the bowl. After all that’s what “trick-or-treat” means. You can choose to give a treat or pay the consequences with a trick. Sorry Michele! That wasn’t very nice of them.
After Trick-or-Treating, Logan and I met up with Tina’s crew at her house and enjoyed some pizza (Logan not me) and then went off to a very scary Haunted House in the neighborhood. School mates/parents of Tina’s set up a haunted backyard filled with scary monsters and horror scenes. They ask for donations that go to help different causes. This year’s cause was for a very sick young lady. We were happy to donate a few dollars as Logan, myself, little Christopher, and two of Courtney’s girl friends, walked through the backyard in a huddled mass. Things popped out at you, spider webs were blown on you, legs were grabbed from below, and screams were every where…the monsters and OURS! What a blast!
Postscript:
There was one upsetting moment earlier though. Dennis and Barbara’s daughter Haley ran into Logan while playing tag and needed 5 stitches inside her mouth. I must say though for the very first time in Logan’s life NOBODY blamed him. It was a pure accident. Logan says he was standing still and turned to her when she ran into him. Courtney thought he was moving but no matter what it was nice to know that Tina’s crew recognized this for what it was. Logan got a bit of a bruiser over and around his eye, but no lasting bruises. I guess no holiday can go totally stress-free. But if it could…this was almost there.
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