Halloween 2020

Considering we are in the middle of a pandemic, this was still a better holiday than last year. Last year, I was cooling my heels in a hospital room with R., waiting and waiting and waiting for the doctor to finally get around to seeing us and discharging R. It took about 12 hours of waiting from the time she was deemed stable enough to leave before we were walking out the door. For those at home, A. managed to get people into costumes so that they could trick-or-treat in the snow. Admittedly, the bar for this year was pretty low.

There wasn't a lot of costumes, but G. did dress up Apollo in a pineapple costume that B. gave her. The kitten was pretty cute.

J. supervised the pumpkin carving, though many people are now able to carve their own pumpkin. Here's something pretty impressive. J. had given R. a piece of paper with a circle drawn on it so she could show J. what she wanted her pumpkin's face to look like. Look at what she drew!

Eyes, nose, mouth, all in the correct spot and identifiable. This was possible the high point of the whole day for me. 

J. then came up with a treasure hunt for candy that happened later in the afternoon. There were six clues inside and six clues outside that everyone had to solve and find. There was candy at each clue and a huge bowl of candy at the end. If we are to do this again, significantly more difficult clues will need to be written.

A Halloween movie while dinner cooked rounded out the holiday. I think everyone had a good day even if they didn't go trick-or-treating.