1. Attend numerous Halloween trunk-or-treat parties at the local high schools. Ensure kids’ costumes look extra cute to guarantee more freebies. Status: in progress.
2. Go to the pumpkin patch with Haddie’s playgroup. Come home stuffed to the brim with free candy. Status: mission accomplished.
3. Attend trunk-or-treat at the church. Status: in progress.
4. Grandma. Status: Operation Suck-Up always in progress.
5. Pretend we have not been BOOed. Status: in progress.
Translation: our neighborhood is currently doing a little secret Halloween treat exchange where you stuff a bag full of candy with a little poem, ring and run. Everyone is supposed to then distribute it to two additional people and then hang the sign in the window to let people know they’ve already been “BOOed.”
The other night, I took the kids to [where else?] Super Target to get some BOOed treats to distribute. When we walked in the door, Hunky Hubby was jumping for joy. The reason? I had yet to put our sign in the window and someone unknowingly BOOed us for the second time in two days.
Just a couple more days with no sign in the window and we should be stocked to the brim for Halloween….
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