Halloween

This is what our Halloween looked like:

 Yes, snow. The temperature was somewhere around 22°and we probably got about an inch and a half of snow.  Our town didn’t postpone trick-or-treating, so we didn’t go. Nor did I see anyone else in the neighborhood out braving the elements. And since we didn’t tell Emry and Ethan anything about it…well, they never knew the difference.

Really I wasn’t too excited about going trick-or-treating anyhow. We already have enough candy in the house to last until next Halloween. For the weekend before, we met up with my sister Abby and her son Beto to go “trunk-or-treating” at my sister Jenny’s church. Which would have probably been ten times better had it not been pouring down rain and so we had to wind our way through a dark gym with thousands of other kids. Ed declared next year we were notdoing this again, but the kids didn’t know the difference and the three Spider-Mans were as happy as could be.

 Afterwards we went up to my parents’ for pizza and the kids got to beat open piñatas (a Sturm Halloween tradition) so we went home with plenty of candy and very happy kids.

The following Tuesday, Emry was allowed to wear her white Spider-Man costume to dance class. An occasion she kept telling me was “so exciting!”. Needless to say, she was the only superhero among a bunch of princesses…which she didn’t mind at all.