Dear Halloween Fairy

*a disclaimer: My husband rightly pointed out in the comments that the Halloween Fairy idea was not ours.  We heard it from a friend at church and loved it. Thanks Paul!  🙂  And now…read on.

Dear Halloween Fairy,

It was a beautiful Halloween night.  Seriously.  As lovely as Halloween nights come ’round these parts.

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Some of us even played a little football in our underwear before the festivities began.  Naturally.

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Of course once dinner was over, we made sure each costume was put on lovingly, with great care and precision.

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Anakin, Cheerleader Tia and Woody were all ready to go.  See the attention to detail in the costumes? 

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With great impatience they endured picture time as we waited for the sun to go down so we could stroll the neighborhood demanding candy from all of our neighbors.

We were all thankful to have Boss and Byshka in town for a few days.

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 But then someone else showed up and nobody knew what to think of him.

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Landon in particular was a little leary of the man in the mask.  Once we figured out that it was only Boss, though, we all enjoyed trying it on.

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Even Monkey got in on the action.

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We got a decent family picture for once.  It was like a Halloween Miracle!

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And we lit our pumpkins, which mommy lovingly carved (read: she mumbled and groaned the entire two hours) and we decorated with a Sharpie when she wasn’t looking.

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After meeting up with neighbors and friends, we hit the pavement.  It was exciting and fun and filled with laughter.  Of course, Landon only made it a quarter of the way before getting tired and needing a ride in his cadillac.

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Here’s the thing, though, Halloween Fairy.  We ended up with just a little bit more candy than we could ever possibly know what to do with.  It’s enough to make sure all three kids need massive dental work for the next eighteen years.  Here is an example.  This is just one kid’s bag.

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So here’s what we’re going to do.  We’re going to take a little bit of this candy out, and lay the rest on the front porch tonight.  We would like you, Halloween Fairy, to come pick up the candy and do with it what you wish.  You can dispose of it, you can donate it…just don’t eat it.  You don’t need to do that to yourself.  And in it’s place would you please leave a special toy for each child?

That would be great.  Thanksomuch.