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october 31, 2009
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In Massachusetts, we would have hundreds, because families in Springfield would drive to West Springfield, and ours was the first street they got to.
Here in New York, they all seem to be local. Indeed, in at least half the groups of kids we ran into, there'd be somebody who went to school with Sarah, and they'd either say hi to each other or I'd hear them tell each other "It's Sarah!"
We got off to an inauspicious start. Sarah was supposed to go out with Zach from across our back yard, trick-or-treating over on his street, but for some reason that fell through. Alternate plans were made with Jay and Julia. Then an hour before time, Julia's mom called and said that she (Julia) wasn't feeling well, so I called over and arranged for Sarah to go out with Max and Gaby. A half hour later, Gaby's mom called and said that Gaby was having a meltdown over the issue of wearing an insufficiently warm costume on a cold, wet, windy night and might not get to go out at all.
At a bit after six, Sarah and I started out. I had her put on a jacket over her werewolf suit. She found the mask to be hot. I felt a light sprinkle and grabbed an umbrella from the car. The first house we went to was right across the street, and Mark's grandkids were just starting out with their parents. We latched on.
The rain threatened one more time while we were out, but it never really hit. Sarah was warm enough in her costume that she not only had me carry the mask most of the time, she also had me hold her coat from about halfway in. We covered the two blocks bounded by Round Trail on our side of Stuyvesant, walking about a mile (just under) in total. We ran into Julia. When we got to Max & Gaby's house, they were out. Not terribly surprising, considering the stakes: FREE CANDY.
I was curious about what the Chinese family on Vantage would be doing. They had moved in recently, and they don't seem to speak English. They were giving out dried fruit. At my prompting, Sarah thanked them in Chinese, and I added my own thanks to that. Once our group was away from the house, most of them decided they didn't like the fruit. Sarah gave me a piece, and it was something between a prune and a dried apricot. Not bad, but different.
Sarah's plastic pumpkin filled up and she emptied it into the canvas bag I'd brought for the purpose. Cathy said there were fewer kids out this year, so we have a serious surplus of treat material.
All in all, a fairly successful year.
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In Massachusetts, we would have hundreds, because families in Springfield would drive to West Springfield, and ours was the first street they got to.
Here in New York, they all seem to be local. Indeed, in at least half the groups of kids we ran into, there'd be somebody who went to school with Sarah, and they'd either say hi to each other or I'd hear them tell each other "It's Sarah!"
We got off to an inauspicious start. Sarah was supposed to go out with Zach from across our back yard, trick-or-treating over on his street, but for some reason that fell through. Alternate plans were made with Jay and Julia. Then an hour before time, Julia's mom called and said that she (Julia) wasn't feeling well, so I called over and arranged for Sarah to go out with Max and Gaby. A half hour later, Gaby's mom called and said that Gaby was having a meltdown over the issue of wearing an insufficiently warm costume on a cold, wet, windy night and might not get to go out at all.
At a bit after six, Sarah and I started out. I had her put on a jacket over her werewolf suit. She found the mask to be hot. I felt a light sprinkle and grabbed an umbrella from the car. The first house we went to was right across the street, and Mark's grandkids were just starting out with their parents. We latched on.
The rain threatened one more time while we were out, but it never really hit. Sarah was warm enough in her costume that she not only had me carry the mask most of the time, she also had me hold her coat from about halfway in. We covered the two blocks bounded by Round Trail on our side of Stuyvesant, walking about a mile (just under) in total. We ran into Julia. When we got to Max & Gaby's house, they were out. Not terribly surprising, considering the stakes: FREE CANDY.
I was curious about what the Chinese family on Vantage would be doing. They had moved in recently, and they don't seem to speak English. They were giving out dried fruit. At my prompting, Sarah thanked them in Chinese, and I added my own thanks to that. Once our group was away from the house, most of them decided they didn't like the fruit. Sarah gave me a piece, and it was something between a prune and a dried apricot. Not bad, but different.
Sarah's plastic pumpkin filled up and she emptied it into the canvas bag I'd brought for the purpose. Cathy said there were fewer kids out this year, so we have a serious surplus of treat material.
All in all, a fairly successful year.
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Kip, did you get my email?
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Sarah, by the way, is down with a fever today. We've been monitoring her and enforcing rest and proper food.
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I hope Sarah gets better soon! The Halloween story sounded like other kids in the neighborhood were getting sick, too.
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Wish I could see the werewolf costume.
Hope it's nothing too serious with Sarah and that she's feeling better in no time.