the halloween that wasn’t

With everything that happened with Sandy, Halloween was really a huge bust this year. Since school was cancelled  so was the annual Halloween parade. And since life was pretty much cancelled too, trick or treating wasn’t technically allowed. Being that we really never lost power other than 2.5 hours during the storm, we had a house full of guests (some staying over, some staying long enough to eat or charge up their stuff) including Joe & Gail and their boys. Timmy was dying to get out to trick or treat a little, so we took James along (sans costume but with his firetruck sweatshirt and real fireman’s hat from Uncle John, it worked out just fine) for a once around the block trick or treating to maintain some semblance of Halloween. It was a little scary out there with lots of wires down all over, trees toppled over into the streets so we were really super careful and made sure to go out before it got dark.

Timmy decided on his own that he wanted to be a Canadian Mountie this year. Do you have any idea how impossible it is to find a kids Canadian Mountie costume?? They don’t make them. So we found the hat, and I found a kids Queens Guard uniform, and then found a site for the leather baldric (didn’t even know what that was called before I started looking for that) in kids sizes. So a lot of work (research, not sewing. Do you know me at all?!) went into this costume for a year without a real Halloween. At least I got some pictures.