Halloween and Waiting (Jack)

We had a pretty quiet Halloween. We live on a pretty quiet road in a small town and we only had a handful of groups of trick-or-treaters stop by. I can't help but think that Halloween will be more fun again when Kit is old enough to get dressed up and go out.

Jill and I were talking to our next door neighbor in the afternoon before the kids started coming by. He has two little boys at home, and I asked if the older one would be going trick-or-treating. He told us that yes he was, though he had several different costumes and wasn't sure what he'd be going as yet. Then as he was heading off, he said "You'll find out about that soon enough. You're kid may be foreign, but he'll learn the American customs pretty quick." Jill and I didn't say anything. We didn't really know what to say. Our neighbor's a nice guy and has been really well, neighborly to us so I think we wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was an awkward attempt at saying something like "All kids love Halloween". I think we need to make up a game plan for dealing with these sort of comments in the future.

The blog has been kinda slow lately. Jill has been good about doing updates, but I haven't had much to write about. We're in the middle of the long wait between the mad paper rush and bringing Kit home, so mostly we're trying to kill time right now.

The good news is that in about three weeks, we'll be visiting Kit for Thanksgiving! This trip has seemed off in the distance for so long, but now it's almost upon us. We're both anxiously awaiting it! And I imagine that when we get back, we'll have plenty to write about.