Why no, I don’t think 8 a.m. is too early for a 100 Grand bar.
Just don’t tell my kid I’m raiding her Halloween loot.
Now, if someone could just invent a fun-size Whatchamacallit bar.
Peanut-flavored crisp candy topped with a layer of caramel and dipped in milk chocolate. Forever and ever. Amen.
It’s been 24 hours since a sugar storm, named trick-or-treat, rained down on our neighborhood, and the kids have yet to recover.
Interestingly, this evening while my child, who is up to her eyeballs in chocolate-covered anything and everything, was rifling through her sugar stash (in search of two, and only two, treats to be consumed after dinner) she caught a TV news story about the clean-up that continues in parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine following the freak weekend snow storm.
During the on-air report my 7-year-old learned that millions of people living along the East Coast were without electricity, and in some cases, running water and heat. In addition, some families featured in the piece had snow-covered downed power lines and uprooted trees in their yards, which meant going outside was a dangerous proposition, which meant kids were being told to stay indoors, which meant no trick-or-treating.
“Wait! Mommy! No trick-or-treating on Halloween!”
Cancelling door-to-door candy collecting?
It was almost too much for my second grader to comprehend.
Who cancels Halloween?
I explained the dangers of having kids navigate sidewalks and yards covered with wet downed power lines in the dark of night on their way to get free candy, but it didn’t seem to ease my kid’s sympathy for her costume-less peers who were seemingly robbed of one of the most child-centric holidays of the year.
And in a moment that would make any mother’s heart melt, my kid suggested she mail some of her Halloween candy to the children who missed out on the sugar storm and instead got walloped by the real white stuff.
Too sweet.
We later found out that some East Coast communities will allow kids to get into their costumes and beg for candy on Friday, November 4th. Meanwhile, in harder hit areas like Charlton, Massachusetts, Halloween has been rescheduled to November 8th. Unfortunately, though, there are a few places where trick-or-treating has been cancelled all together.
In those cases, it wasn’t The Grinch who stole the holiday, it was Mother Nature.
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