After surviving COVID, we were glad to be fever-free so we got to spend Halloween with our son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren. We had absolutely beautiful fall weather so we could be outdoors for Halloween activities like cleaning out the insides of pumpkins.
In years' past, we have carved elaborate jack-o-lanterns. But our priorities have changed now that we have a two-year-old helping with the pumpkin.
Eli had a less-eventful Halloween. At ten days old, he spent most of this holiday sleeping, and his grandparents were only too happy to hold him as he snoozed.
He gave us a couple crooked smiles, and he has already stolen our hearts.
As the sun began to set, we talked Carter into putting on her Halloween costume. It's a remake of a uniform from the women's baseball league--"A League of Their Own." She wasn't thrilled with wearing a cap, so Carter was glad that Granddad would wear it instead.
We were just glad that we could convince her to wear her costume during our home-made pizza dinner this evening. But once she heard that there was candy involved with something called trick-or-treating, she didn't seem to mind that costume, even if it now had pizza sauce down the front. She even agreed to wear the belt AND cap.
She was a woman on a mission once she understood that there was candy to be had in her neighborhood.
The house we sold six years ago was on a new street with wide sidewalks. We always had to turn out our porch light when we ran out of candy, and we bought enough for over 300 trick-or-treaters. This is our 5th Halloween living in a motor home, and we think that having the ability to move our house to spend this time with our grandchildren is great. We love jack-o-lanterns that might be less than perfect, a little goblin that we can snuggle as he sleeps most of the day, and a trick-or-treater with pizza sauce on her costume. It was a very Happy Halloween!
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