15 Halloweens.
I am so done with this holiday. I can’t decide which is worse. Handing out candy or accompanying the trick-or-treaters. Doling candy means getting to stay inside my nice warm house, but I’m a boring old curmudgeon and I could not care less who is wearing what costume. Every 30 or so seconds another batch of them ring the doorbell, so there’s no point in even sitting down. Too cold out to leave the door open, so it’s open, close, open, close for hours. The other option involves wearing every layer of outwear that I own, because I know from experience that hours of standing in subzero temperatures watching my overheated little monsters run breathlessly from house to house makes me cold even if I flap my arms up and down by my sides to keep the blood flowing to my fingertips.
I bought a heap of candy but not even one pumpkin.
No decorations.
I think I’m in the process of throwing in the towel.
Good thing for the younger two that they have older sibs. I think there’s a horror movie marathon in the works and the list of potential Halloween sleep-over guests is growing. The little ones will likely come home from their trick-or-treating to a houseful of costumed teens, a wasteland of candy wrappers, and a mother safely locked in her room.
i recommend you get very drunk ! Either it will aid you getting through the night with lots of laughs not otherwise had or else you may develop a local reputation and keep ‘em at bay next time! Either way you winz!
That’s a thought. I wonder if there are other beleaguered parents with hidden Halloween hostilities on my street…
ohh, bound to be. could guarantee it! we have refused forever to ‘do’ halloween, its not that ‘big’ here but the kids know it and want to do it but its more of a nuisance here as we have no real halloween culture so people at home find it a real pain. i have to say i was amazed when i have been in the US at halloween at all the ’stuff’. incredible!
I was lucky this year, C and R decided not to go out this year, so they handed out the candy while I read a book. Big C took out the little ones. They brought home 13 pounds of candy and are giving more than 3/4 to my orthodontist. He pays by the pound and gives it to Harvest. So I am happy about that.
Hope you can convince one of the older ones to stay home next year and do the dirty work for you.
Have a good one.
M
I ended up getting lucky. R had a bunch of friends over and they handed out the candy. T went with pals, J went with her friend and her friend’s older cousin, L went to a diff friend for a sleepover, so I sat in my room and did a crossword. It was fabulous!