Halloween Hauntings

Halloween brings back memories of wearing the same plastic bib with a castle and Cinderella on it, a bow on my head (like a literal gift wrap bow), and red circles on my cheeks. I was a princess! And yep, I was a princess for 10 years straight, right until I was 15. Then I threw that costume away!

But I digress. That was (nope, not going to count how many years ago) awhile back.

It’s 2024 and now committed to getting the kids a costume they want each year. With one stipulation. They need to tell me 3 weeks in advance so I can order it and gets here on time. Miss the deadline, and you’re on your own.

Scarlet meets the deadline and her Mandalorian outfit shows up.

Bryson? Well, Alex swoops in to help the poor kid out.

So I pick up Scarlet from school, and we head out to Madison Ave with her BFF Bruna and they are literally running from store to store getting candy. This is NYC and that’s how the kids do it here.

We also head to a fancy building and they don’t give out little Hershey’s kisses. These people give out full size bars of every kind of bar you can imagine. It’s like a candy store but free!

The kids go bananas. I go bananas! The kids get in a line a second time. I think it’s a good idea!

There’s even a hotel with a boutique candy cart with 2 uniformed candy helpers who put her fancy little candies in a bag.

The kids go bananas and so do I! Again!

After a couple hours of that, we then head to our neighborhood Village for more Halloween madness. I like Halloween because it’s a chance to sneak peaks into people’s apartments. Creepy but fun!

The kids go on collecting more and more candy. Until…

Poor Bryson gets home from his soccer match (yes, they scheduled a soccer match on Halloween). He looks for his costume that Alex had bought him and oops! It’s not yet arrived. Jeff Bezos – you stink!

Poor Bryson then crawl into a ball and we coax him to put on Scarlet’s mermaid outfit.

Now, where do you think I’m going to go with this? Take the high road or stick it to ‘em?

I’ll just leave this as a cliffhanger (very Netflix, aren’t I?)