Halloween went well here. I took my daughter and my two nieces trick-or-treating. I carried the baby as we walked up and down the blocks. He did really well for an hour and a half. His Grandma watched him for the final thirty minutes I had the girls.

An interesting thing happened. At one of the first houses we went to the lady gave my daughter twice as much candy as my nieces and told her, 'because you're pretty.' I brushed it off. Well, this happened repeatedly last night at eight or more houses. Yes, my daughter is pretty but so are my nieces. How unfair that one should get more candy than another. I don't want my daughter to think that "pretty" is dependable and that "less pretty" is less deserving. "Pretty" is only an opinion. My younger niece asked me if her makeup was ugly. I reassured her that she looked beautiful, which she did. I talked to the girls and told them that sometimes adults make comments without thinking and we focused on the fun again.

All in all, everyone had fun and looked great! It was a happy Halloween.