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Halloween 2010

this halloween was a very different one in the im house.  whereas in years past, a big part of the fun of the holiday was to dress up kaya, and then take her house to house with mimi for trick or treating, laughing every step of the way as she trotted by us looking so funny in her costume and neighbors laughing (or just shaking their heads), but since she passed last year, halloween had lost a lot of the fun for us (or maybe it's just me?).  last halloween was unbearably sad for me without kaya, though i think mimi and ozzy were still excited about all the candy (and it rained that night, so that just added to the depression).  so as this halloween approached i felt we needed to do something different to make it fun again.  so this year we hosted a small party, decorated the house, invited some of mimi's friends (mostly daisy scouts) for some pizza and candied apples (the mini candied apples were a bit of a flop...but i figured out a few tricks and will try these again!), and then went trick or treating together in our neighborhood, making it a point to hit the halloween house that has gained some infamy in our neighborhood.  
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as soon as the girls came, i was glad we did it.  mimi and the girls had so much fun together.  i found myself smiling most of the night from the girls' exuberance and happy screams of excitement as they ran from house to house with little ozzy trotting after them. 

it was a lot of fun and definitely something we will try to do every year from now on!  :)  of course, i still miss our sweet kaya, but i think the kids had a great time and will have happy memories of halloween night even w/o her.  despite my best efforts to find ways to make halloween fun for us again, i think i will probably find myself missing kaya every halloween, anyway.  it's not a totally bad thing though...she left us with so many fond memories.
halloween past

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