Spooky weekend

After putting up with having the Halloween decorations up for 2 weeks, it's all done, cleaned up, and packed away. I'd definitely say it was worth it, just going by the reactions:

- The smallest children were carried up to the door, and had a mildly fearful look on their faces

- Children that were old enough to walk usually approached slowly and carefully, or tried to run away.

- Slightly older children made it to the door, and jumped when we set the smoke machine off. They usually also told us how scary our house was. 

- The oldest of the kids told us our house was "awesome", "sick", or something like that.

- The adults accompanying the kids told us how much they appreciated the work we put in.

One child even asked if the "guy with the chainsaw" was going to pop out and scare him again. This made me laugh for a few reasons:

1) If we were going to scare you, we wouldn't tell you first.

2) We can't do the same thing two years in a row, or you would expect it.

3) It was a circular saw, not a chainsaw. Dumb kid.