Chewymom

It was bedtime, and the house was crazy. Not only that, we had just gotten home from our Wednesday night church activities, which meant even more scrambling and later bedtimes than usual. The doorbell rang, and it was a friend from church bringing DD4’s doll by that she had left at the church. It was very thoughtful of them, especially considering that it was only a Happy Meal doll.

A few more minutes of scrambling around, finding pajamas, putting away backpacks, and “DING-DONG!” the doorbell rang a second time. Let me interject here that first of all, nobody ever uses our front door, so the doorbell ringing in general is a little weird. But for it to ring twice, after dark, within 10 minutes is just very odd. DH looked up from the den as it rang, just in time to see a figure running away from the door. A prank. Still, someone ran and opened the door. A basket of candy and Halloween stuff was sitting on the porch, along with a paper ghost that had BOO written on it. We got BOO’d!!!! We had wanted to be Boo’d.

The past few years, the tradition was to leave a mask and some candy at people’s door. The family would put the mask on their mailbox, letting others know they had already received the treat, and then they were to do the same to two other people. This year it is a ghost. We now need to find two other families who have not yet been BOO’d and do it to them.

Within 10 more minutes, the doorbell rang a third time! Before we could even get our ghost up on our door, we were BOO’d a second time! I think that’s against the rules, but DH posted a ghost on both the front and side doors, and today we are off to BOO four families, instead of two.

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