Trick-or-treat truth

Since I forgot again this year to take pictures, I’ll have to describe the gilrs costumes.  Lauren wore a sleeping beauty costume complete with crown, Erica was a good witch (since we don’t allow ghosts, goblins or other spooky type things) her costume consisted of pink tights, pink slippers trimmed with fur, a lovely shear tutu type thing which we put a little blue skirt under so people couldn’t see her undies, a white top I pulled out of my box of dresses to make over and a little white fur shall we own -oh I can’t forget the fancy hair accessory (that is actually a candle decoration), Sam was not dressed up b/c she had stayed home from school with an ear ache and therefore was not allowed to go out.  both of the girls were allowed to wear make-up as part of their costumes and I also did thier hair up and curled it so they would look beautiful.  Now first let me tell you that a good witch looks an aweful lot like a fairy w/o the wings and I kept saying good fairy and was consistantlly being corrected.   We had gone into Jenison so the girls could go trick-or-treat at Oak Crest where Brandon’s Grandparents live (Sam came along for the ride).  After going there, we headed to Fazoli’s to get something to eat.  While Brandon was in line waiting to order, the girls and I went to go find a table.  We went around the corner and there were some people leaving and the lady stopped after seeing Lauren and says “oh my, are you a real princess” to which Lauren shyly nods her head yes.  The woman continued to make over her about how pretty she was and asked if she was supposed to curtsy, then she saw Erica and asked “oh are you a princess too”?  I was anticipating that Erica was going to correct this nice but clearly misguided person that she was a good witch not a princess but instead she leans foreward and says in a somewhat confidential tone, ”we’re really just trick-or-treaters”.  Oh she makes me laugh!

Then bless his heart Brandon was feeling bad for Sam and went with her bucket to each house enduring the funny looks he got when he said “we have a sick one in the car”.  So she did not have to miss out on Haloween after all.

I had joked with Brandon that if I had some black felt at home I would have cut out shapes to make a carved pumpkin on my belly out of the orange tank top I was wearing but alas there was none.