Happy Halloween

Elijah from school, and Sylvan

It's so strange. This is the first time that I haven't had the kids on Halloween. Even when I was married, I usually took the kids out by myself, because their dad was either working or doing something else. This year, it fell on the day that they come home in the evening, so we're doing a weird divorced family thing. He's taking them out until 7 and then I'm taking them out. I don't think I like it.

The upside is that I get to pass out candy for the first time in years and years. So I'm sitting on the couch, jack-o-lanterns lit on the porch, big bowl of candy by the door, bird mask at the ready. So far only one little kid though, in a store bought "Stitch" costume.