We Survived (Halloween)

 We don't usually get many trick-or-treaters and this year wasn't any different. My husband sat out on a porch wearing a "scary" overalls/baseball combo, with his ax and a chainsaw propped by the door. I am sure that wasn't the reason why only a couple of groups of kids stopped by...

I took our youngest and her friend around our neighborhood. C was the Ranger from the "Ranger's Apprentice". Our oldest went to a friend's house (they all dressed up as Minions) to eat sugar and watch "The Exorcist". He was pretty grumpy when we came to pick him up because they were only 30 minutes into the movie - but hey, school night, a test the next day, so... a grumpy teen. The middle child also went to a friend's house to party - they dressed up as super-heroes. The initial plan was to take friend's little sister trick-or-treating around the friend's neighborhood, but at some point that plan got changed. So it was just a bunch of teenage girls and H, who is 14, took full advantage of her looks (she looks like a 10-year old). Like I wrote before, I am not a huge fan of teenage trick-or-treaters (leave the candy for the little kids!!!), but oh well. 

There are multiple stashes of candy throughout the house. 

I am kind of over trying to enforce any sort of limitations on candy-eating... 

We didn't watch any scary movies as a family, but we did watch "The Boy and the Heron". It was... weird. Don't get me wrong, I love weird and I liked the movie, but this was just a whole different level of weirdness. I feel like I missed a lot and will have to watch it a couple of times to catch all the details. But seriously, man-eating parakeets? I don't know what kind of mushrooms Miyazaki and his team have been eating. The world they have created was wonderous and had a dream-logic to it, where you just kind of accept things as is while watching it but when thinking back to it - the pieces just fall apart and don't quite fit together. 

How was your Halloween? Did you dress up?