My dd (age2), Alethea (Lefa), is allergic to gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, peas, peanuts and eggplant and probably chocolate.
So we went to my mom and dad's for Halloween like we do every year. My sister, Auntie_Aya, age 20, was there also. I was already feeling a bit emotional because it is the first year we are trick-or-treating w/out my husband. And then, I forgot the baby's Yummy Earth suckers so was worried about how she was going to react when we got back to my parents house after trick-or-treating and her siblings started eating their loot.
We ate supper (parents made chicken, burgers and sweet potato fries for us and had watermelon and cantelope cut up as well and safe apple cider) then headed out the door. At the first house my sister said loudly, pointing to Lefa, "This little girl is allergic to chocolate, soy and corn, do you have anything that she can have?". I saw the neighbor had little flashlights for the kids, so assumed my sister knew that ahead of time so was just being funny. No. My sister had stayed up late making the corn free marshmellows, cut them up in little pieces, and put them in a baggie w/a label stapeled at the top that said "Ghost Poop" on one side, "Lefa Loot" on the other. She had made several of these. She had also been collecting small age appropriate toys for a few months and had "Lefa Loot" labels on them too. And she had bought a bag of Yummy Earth suckers and had put them in packs of two with a rubber band and a "Lefa Loot" label. During the day, before we came, she had gone door to door (about 30 houses) distributing these items so that Lefa got something she could have at just about every house she went to.
And then, to top it off, 3 different neighbors that we really don't even know, after getting the info from my sister, took it upon themselves to get a little something extra for Lefa. One woman had a ceramic black cat jack-o-lantern w/a handle, one woman had a small lavendar cardboard round box filled w/foam flower stickers. An older gentleman gave her a package of halloween stickers along with some colored paper.
I spent about 1/2 of the trick-or-treating time crying in the dark.
I hope you and all your little ones felt as much love tonight.
Happy Halloween,
Tracy
So we went to my mom and dad's for Halloween like we do every year. My sister, Auntie_Aya, age 20, was there also. I was already feeling a bit emotional because it is the first year we are trick-or-treating w/out my husband. And then, I forgot the baby's Yummy Earth suckers so was worried about how she was going to react when we got back to my parents house after trick-or-treating and her siblings started eating their loot.
We ate supper (parents made chicken, burgers and sweet potato fries for us and had watermelon and cantelope cut up as well and safe apple cider) then headed out the door. At the first house my sister said loudly, pointing to Lefa, "This little girl is allergic to chocolate, soy and corn, do you have anything that she can have?". I saw the neighbor had little flashlights for the kids, so assumed my sister knew that ahead of time so was just being funny. No. My sister had stayed up late making the corn free marshmellows, cut them up in little pieces, and put them in a baggie w/a label stapeled at the top that said "Ghost Poop" on one side, "Lefa Loot" on the other. She had made several of these. She had also been collecting small age appropriate toys for a few months and had "Lefa Loot" labels on them too. And she had bought a bag of Yummy Earth suckers and had put them in packs of two with a rubber band and a "Lefa Loot" label. During the day, before we came, she had gone door to door (about 30 houses) distributing these items so that Lefa got something she could have at just about every house she went to.
And then, to top it off, 3 different neighbors that we really don't even know, after getting the info from my sister, took it upon themselves to get a little something extra for Lefa. One woman had a ceramic black cat jack-o-lantern w/a handle, one woman had a small lavendar cardboard round box filled w/foam flower stickers. An older gentleman gave her a package of halloween stickers along with some colored paper.
I spent about 1/2 of the trick-or-treating time crying in the dark.
I hope you and all your little ones felt as much love tonight.
Happy Halloween,
Tracy
I'm crying just reading that. What a great sister/aunt!!
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