This was easily the worst Halloween for the kids this year.
It started with David having a rough night last night (asthma, coughing, headaches, not sleeping), and hence we didn't get as much sleep as we would like. He skipped football practice today, which tells you how he really wasn't feeling himself. Then Sarah's team lost 4-1 in soccer, and by the end of the game most of the girls weren't in the game so much as they were making plans for tonight.
Then when trick-or-treating started, the rains that had held off all day started intermittently. Nothing horrible, just enough to make the process soggy and drain it of some fun. There were almost NO kids out tonight; we guess we had maybe 50 total, all night. And more of them seemed to be 14- to 16-year-olds than before. The streets were a lot emptier than ever, which surprised me given it's a Saturday night...I would have thought without having to rush rush rush home, everyone would have been around and out and...well, it just wasn't that way.
Then David started feeling tired and not really himself again, and you can tell something's wrong when David willingly gives up trick-or-treating to go home and go to bed. So by 8 he's home, by 8:30 he's out of the shower, and by 9 he's asleep. He's convinced he'll make his football game tomorrow, but I can see him doing that and then being just absolutely exhausted the rest of the day.
Halloween will fade; this could well be the last year David wants to go out, and Sarah will soon shift into it being a social activity with her girlfriends moreso than anything else. But if it is, wow, what a lousy way for it to go out.
For our Halloween photo album, see the link or click here.
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