This is the first year that all three girls have really understood Halloween and are really into Trick or Treat. Grandma made their Halloween costumes and they've been wearing them all week since they were delivered on Tuesday.
And today we woke up to:
What you can't see are the constant drops of rain. What you can't feel is the biting wind cut through you. And what the girls can't do is trick or treat today. I hate to be disappointed and I hate to feel like my kids are disappointed. And it's made worse by things that are out of our control. So in anticipation of what might not happen today, I tried to compensate by having a "rainy day picnic" for lunch.
I held out as long as I could, hoping to see some clearing in the bands of rain that would allow us to get at least a half-hour in of pan-handling to the neighbors. But not seeing much hope on the radar we laid them down for a much needed nap. And actually they seemed to look right past the fact that the HUGE bowl of candy was out on the island and other neighborhood kids were starting to arrive at our door. It actually seemed they weren't disappointed at all.
I know there will be many times again when I can't fight off disappointment with a carpet picnic in the middle of the living room floor. But hopefully they will be wise enough to realize that in life a little rain will fall. And winds will blow. And sometimes it's just not that big of a disappointment after all.
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