A word about Halloween.... Halloween is Lily's favorite holiday. Since she was born, every Halloween we/she'd go trick-or-treating along 18th Street on Potrero Hill. We've always had a pre-trick-or-treating dinner (my thought is let's eat something good before something bad) and a post-trick-or-treating glass of wine and wind down. Almost every year since Kindergarten, Lily has gone trick-or-treating with her friends Mala and Tanima, and we've walked behind them with Mala's mom, Rebecca, and Tanima's parents Milan and Nanden and her little brother Aniket. For the last 4 or 5 years Lily has made her costumes with Cork and the neighbors always look forward to what they've come up with.
This year there was none of that and I had underestimated how much it meant to Lily. She was brave about it, using eye liner to make scars and wearing the witch hat/wig that grandma got her in order to hand candy out to mom's neighbors, but after the first group of kids left she burst into tears and I witnessed the anguish that can only come from missing someone /some thing you really love.
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| Lily as an end table |
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| Mala, Lily (as a chandelier that has fallen from the ceiling) Tanima and Aniket |
