Well, first of all, hello extra hour. You are welcome here. In fact, you might be the only reason I was able to be productive at all on a Sunday following Halloween festivities that involved a sleepover.
The truth is our weekend ended up being more low-key than what we’d originally planned because of all the rain. It started on Thursday night, rained on and off all day Friday and into the early hours of Saturday morning. We didn’t have flooding issues here in San Antonio, but several surrounding cities got hit really hard with flood and wind damage and there were warnings all day long about not venturing out if possible. Which worked out because I ended up not feeling great and laid low until I had to go pick Caroline up later that evening from the local elementary school where she played the role of Zombie Girl in a Nightgown for the Haunted House. She might have a real future in scaring small children based on her enthusiasm for her role, but you have to figure playing a Zombie is fairly seasonal work unless you end up as a cast member for The Walking Dead.
(I have never actually watched The Walking Dead because I do not care to see Zombies doing anything. Michael Jackson’s Thriller video caused me to have nightmares throughout junior high so, sufficed to say, I have a low horror tolerance.)
Saturday morning we thought we had a soccer game but it ended up being a rain out. So we watched the Aggies beat South Carolina which felt like a good sign for the rest of the day. Then Caroline had friends over for a big night of trick-or-treating. There had been much discussion over costume options and they finally decided on a Three Musketeers Bar because OF COURSE.
Thankfully, one of the other moms made the silver boxes and so my contribution was to get the Three Musketeers logo blown up and laminated at Kinkos. This should have been a foolproof assignment, yet I managed to bring in the wrong measurements initially and ended up with a sign about a third of what was required. So I had to make the walk of Halloween shame back to Kinkos to get a much larger sign made and then managed to cut it in the right places and adhere it to the boxes.
I will say that while it looks cute in pictures, it proved to be a little cumbersome for trick-or-treating purposes. There may have been a few houses where they went to the door as the “TEERS THREEM USKE” which might have caused some people to think they were dressed as some sort of bizarre Polish folk band.
Other than that, the trick-or-treating went well until I felt what turned out to be a raindrop. And then I felt another one. Then P confirmed that we were actually feeling raindrops right about the time the sky opened up and it POURED down rain. You’ve never seen a Three Musketeers bar move so fast. In fact, our whole block looked like a scene from a horror movie because there were monsters and werewolves and witches everywhere running for cover. And also the occasional Anna and Elsa because even a year later some little girls can’t let it go.
We made it back to the house and were totally soaked. (Thanks, weathermen, for the astute forecast that made no mention of rain on Saturday evening) So we pulled out all manner of towels to dry off with and the girls began to happily sort their candy and had no desire to go back out trick-or-treating after the rain finally stopped.
Of course it helped that I bought way too much candy given that the festivities were cut short and I basically told them they could have all the leftovers to split three ways.
And so that was our Halloween. And, basically, our weekend.
Hope yours was good and that you have managed to steal some candy for yourself.