I Prayed for "Halloweeners" to Come!

I think the title of this post aught to cause my readership to skyrocket, don't you think? To be honest, I prefer to have a small readership because I like to think that only family and close friends read my posts. After all, I'm full of opinions that haven't always been thought through. So better to have a small readership than large, wouldn't you agree? Anyway, with my five posts a year, I think I'm in no danger of having a large audience. Phew! Well, after my longwinded introduction, now to my post. Halloween occurred on a monday night this year, due to Hurricane Sandy. I confess, I completely forgot about it! Jules and I were sitting in the house reading stories I think, when there was a knock at the door. Suddenly I realized I had no candy. All of the lights were blazing in the house and I knew the old "shut the curtains, turn out the lights" idea wasn't going to work so I froze and eventually the knocking stopped. Not wanting to get caught again, I dug around and found some candy meant for my Sunday School class and put it in a wooden salad bowl and placed it near the door. When Jules realized I actually meant to hand out candy, she was VERY upset! I guess I have been indoctrinating her successfully on why we don't celebrate halloween! Well, after about five minutes of explanation on why it would be ok for us to hand out candy, Juliet conceded that perhaps it would be okay to pass out candy to the kids dressed in cute costumes (as opposed to vampires and the like). After this change of heart, Juliet, in an excited tizzy, ran off to the bathtub, found her pumpkin pail that I use to rinse her hair with, and dumped the candy into said pail. Then she sat down in the front hall and waited. And waited. It broke my heart to see my little girl waiting so expectantly to hand out candy that I actually prayed for someone to come knocking on our front door. After an hour, Juliet was rewarded, my prayer answered, and we were happy! Today we were at the clinic and of course the nurse asked Juliet what she was for halloween and I stated that we didn't do anything for halloween. Another young boy was in the room and told the nurse what he was for halloween (a vampire). I could see the wheels turning in Juliet's mind and she was starting to launch into her lecture on why we shouldn't dress up in "weird" costumes,and how halloween was "bad", etc, when I promptly changed the subject. So that was our halloween....