This year for Halloween, we went to one of Walmart's Corporate offices for trick or treating, and then the next night we went to our church's trunk or treat.
The boys wanted to be star wars yet again. I told them we could dress up Alice as Princess Leia or Yoda. When I made a princess Leia hat and showed it to Jimmy he replied "Aw Mom! I wanted her to be Yoda!" But I thought she made a perfect princess Leia (with the hat wig of course). I made that hat wig from a brown dishtowel (I'm kind of proud of that bit of innovativeness if you can't tell).
This year, Jimmy can't eat hard things yet of course (still softs for another 4 weeks), and so I told the boys I'd pay them a nickel for each piece of candy they gave me. Jimmy turned in all of his candy except for a powder pixie stick and earned over $10 from all the candy he got this year! Johnny wanted to keep a couple pieces, and made about $9- It about made me go broke! I think I'm just giving a penny per candy next year :)
By Sunday, the boys weren't asking to do the "real" trick or treating, so we just stayed home. Surprisingly we didn't get a single trick or treater to our door this year. I even had put the candy that I had bought from the boy's by the door to re-hand out. James thinks it is because we forgot to leave our porch light on. I kind of liked the quiet evening- especially since it fell on a Sunday.
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