Trick or Treating Debriefing

Ok - no one told us that our street was a veritable Halloween destination for the tri-state area.  Okay, well maybe Josh tells me the guy down the street said something when we first moved here but I don't remember this conversation. In every single neighborhood/house we have ever lived in I have ALWAYS overbought on Halloween candy and by the end of the night would be giving handfuls of candy to the lucky few kids who actually came to our door.

Not tonight. Tonight was different.  Tonight was like nothing I have ever experienced before. Josh described it like a plague of locusts. When I took Abram down the street and back some of our neighbors saw the panicked look on my face. The look of a woman who just knew her husband was handing out 2-3 pieces of candy at a time all willy-nilly and we'd be the dreaded first house to have to turn off our light. They just shook their heads at our naivety and told me we were lucky the weather was cold and rainy because tonight was actually a 'slow' night.

If tonight was a slow night then I think I'm going to have to start a savings account for Halloween candy. They said they usually get about 800 kids on an average night. We actually had to ask Abram if we could hand out his 'I've been dry all day and get a treat' special lollipops. He was a good sport and gave them up willingly. I'm sure you're all sitting on pins and needles wondering whether or not we made it. We had exactly 3 pieces left in our bowl. Josh stood in the kitchen doing a countdown to 7:00 when trick-or-treating officially ended.

Here are a few shots of our trick-or-treaters. I would have taken more pictures but Josh or I literally had to be handing out candy constantly so we didn't get to take many.