I had big plans for this year’s Halloween. BIG PLANS, people. They involved fire and trees made into spiders and cauldrons and dry ice. And Neal. He’s the genius who will make my creepy, spooky set up a reality.
See, we live on the edge of our neighborhood. Our driveway is a bit long and a little curvy and surrounded by trees. Our dogs bark at trespassers (ok, whatever. Walking on the street is not technically trespassing, but in Maddie’s world, it’s a dire offense). We don’t have kids.
There’s a lot working against our getting trick-or-treaters. I buy the candy and end up sending it to work with Neal every year. This year, I wanted it to be different. I wanted to have the creepy, spooky set up that no kid (or parent) in the neighborhood could resist.
Alas. Neal has changed his work schedule and is getting home an hour later. We simply weren’t able to pull off creepy, spooky set up. Next year, though, he’s promised to take the day off from work.
I’m still hoping to hear the door bell ring, though. I even put the candy in cute ghost bags this year. And there are gummy eyeballs in those bags.
Happy Halloween.
Aww. Bummer your plans didn’t work out. Happy Halloween!
I hope you get some trick or treaters regardless! Have a happy Halloween.
I know, we’re waiting for trick or treaters now – but we’ll be lucky if we have 3 kids stop by. They block an entire block off two streets over, so almost no one comes over to the darker, scarier side of the neighborhood 🙂
We live on a main artery and get no one. Yet, DH buys candy every. single. year. This year? $8 worth of tootsie roll products. I kid you not. Heck, we didn’t realize until about 7:30 that we didn’t have the stupid light on to alert trick or treaters to our willingness to fatten ’em up. So, $8 worth of Tootsie Roll products sits on the dining room table. waiting to be eaten by DH. I think it’s his master plan.
I know the feeling. We don’t get a single trick or treater. We live a little too far out in town and our closest neighbors are all older folks without kids.
Ah well. Hope you had a good Halloween.
Gummy eyeballs? Oh, wow! I don’t think you can get these in Albuquerque.