Treat or Treat Part II

Halloween night in our neighborhood was…interesting. The seven of us started off down our street. First stop, a nice house, the only problem is the two-hundred stairs leading to the front door. That's okay, my determined children will not be deterred. They start the hike, reach the top, pound on the door and no answer. Oh well. They start back down the stairs and someone opens the door,“Oh, we’ve never had trick or treaters before!” (The stairs must have been a bigger turn off than we thought.) “Let’s see if we can rummage something up.” Moments pass. Our five children wait with what seems to be a dog pant. Awkward. Finally, the nice man comes back to the door with the most eclectic range of “toys” I have ever seen: glittery horse figurines, a plastic flower pot that bends if you push on a button, etc. They were kind of like upscale McDonald’s toys. Jim and I look at each other a bit confused. Meanwhile, the kids are bounding happily down the stairs and hey, we’re off to the next lucky house on our street.