How are the parents of the youngs around here planning on dealing with Halloween this year? I'm not sure what to do about that.
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How are the parents of the youngs around here planning on dealing with Halloween this year?
As the parent of two Youngs, I feel obligated to reply. Our little neighborhood corner has been having weekly Friday night pizza parties for the kiddos since July. Each of the families has been quarantining, so we all trust each other enough to allow the kids (about ten in total) to get together and play. I'm guessing we'll do a very mini-version of Trick or Treating just at each family's house.
Ours will probably be very similar so the kids at least get to see friends dressed up and get some candy.
We will likely opt out of Halloween this year. They never were into the costume part, only the candy, so we can skip to the final step and dump the bag of candy into the bowls.
Ha!
Being in a rural, small town, full in-person school, etc., we'll probably just do Halloween as normal, plus masks and disinfectant.
The little ghost wants to be the state of Illinois as his costume.
I ... don't know what else to say about our Halloween plans.
My older boy wants to be the Sufjan Stevens album Illinois for Halloween.
I mean, he doesn't know that yet, but I'll inform him shortly.
I immediately assumed you meant a CD of the album. Then I felt like time had passed me by.
A predatory wasp? A prairie fire? A night zombie? Or a clown (John Wayne Gacy, Jr.)?
It's between a conjunction of drones and a seer's tower.
We will be home-bound for Halloween. We are going to try to do something fun here at home instead. A treasure hunt with a series of clues has been brought up as a possibility, or perhaps plastic Easter eggs filled with candy and hidden around the house. The kids' school is also doing a drive-through trick-or-treat/costume parade thing where they give them a bag of candy at the end of the path, so maybe we'll do that, but not sure yet.
I dont have kids but I was going to suggest Easter Eggs hidden in the back yard as a good Trick or Treat alternative. Some eggs (paints them orange like pumpkins!) can have candy for treats, and Laffy Taffy style jokes written on a piece of paper in others for the tricks.
7.5 out of ten. I think some pickled banana peppers would have sent this over the top.
We have baseball today!
there's still baseball?
It's a lie. There hasn't been baseball since 2019.
Having already been through the COVID wringer, I'm not planning any doing anything different for Halloween. Our kids will still go out and trick-or-treat. I'll just tell them to be respectful, and wear a mask, and follow any instructions of the houses they go to (in case they don't want people too close, etc). We'll still hand out candy like regular. Probably wear masks at the door.
We're just setting out the candy bowl. Not too full, and added to regularly (because high schoolers)
I don't know that we've decided for sure what we are doing for handing out candy. I'm guessing we won't do any at all, considering we usually don't get that many visitors even when there isn't a pandemic.
If we were on a more popular trick-or-treating route, I'd strongly consider a candy catapult. That sounds fun.
I love the idea of constructing some sort of candy delivery mechanism--maybe a miniature slide from the front door?
First year in the new house. We will be dark. ☹️
Astros-Yankees would be the crummy ALCS that this year deserves.
Agreed. I came here to say this.
We have costumes, but no concrete idea beyond that. Recent COVID scare for the four of us has me thinking twice about anything not at home.
I did not care for that swabbing ... at all.
I got tested a week ago and they're using the quick nostril swab. Do you guys not have that one up there?
It was 10 seconds per nostril (allegedly) and felt like back-of-my-eye-sockets deep ... is that quick? Wife and Niblet didn’t think theirs were horrible, Kernel and I had a different take.
I've had both. The deep one is not something I'd care to do again, although I obviously would if it was necessary. The other one is not nearly as bad.
I've been tested 5 times now. 3 have been of the quick variety where the swab goes into your nose a bit and swishes around. The other two times I'm sure I scraped some of my brains out. Just thinking about those two tests makes me want to hurl a bit.
The one they are doing down here goes about half an inch inside the nostril and is a quick swirl around it. Its not uncomfortable at all, which is good because my kids would not have appreciated having them swab the inside of their lungs.
Newbish caught a cold at school and we decided to play it safe and get him tested.
He strongly agrees with you about the nose swabbing.
2 of ours (colds, negative, etc.) had tests a week ago too, but they did a throat swab they said, and they thought it wasn't too bad?
As the parent of two Youngs, I feel obligated to reply. Our little neighborhood corner has been having weekly Friday night pizza parties for the kiddos since July. Each of the families has been quarantining, so we all trust each other enough to allow the kids (about ten in total) to get together and play. I'm guessing we'll do a very mini-version of Trick or Treating just at each family's house.
Ours will probably be very similar so the kids at least get to see friends dressed up and get some candy.
We will likely opt out of Halloween this year. They never were into the costume part, only the candy, so we can skip to the final step and dump the bag of candy into the bowls.
Ha!
Being in a rural, small town, full in-person school, etc., we'll probably just do Halloween as normal, plus masks and disinfectant.
The little ghost wants to be the state of Illinois as his costume.
I ... don't know what else to say about our Halloween plans.
My older boy wants to be the Sufjan Stevens album Illinois for Halloween.
I mean, he doesn't know that yet, but I'll inform him shortly.
I immediately assumed you meant a CD of the album. Then I felt like time had passed me by.
A predatory wasp? A prairie fire? A night zombie? Or a clown (John Wayne Gacy, Jr.)?
It's between a conjunction of drones and a seer's tower.
We will be home-bound for Halloween. We are going to try to do something fun here at home instead. A treasure hunt with a series of clues has been brought up as a possibility, or perhaps plastic Easter eggs filled with candy and hidden around the house. The kids' school is also doing a drive-through trick-or-treat/costume parade thing where they give them a bag of candy at the end of the path, so maybe we'll do that, but not sure yet.
I dont have kids but I was going to suggest Easter Eggs hidden in the back yard as a good Trick or Treat alternative. Some eggs (paints them orange like pumpkins!) can have candy for treats, and Laffy Taffy style jokes written on a piece of paper in others for the tricks.
7.5 out of ten. I think some pickled banana peppers would have sent this over the top.
We have baseball today!
there's still baseball?
It's a lie. There hasn't been baseball since 2019.
Having already been through the COVID wringer, I'm not planning any doing anything different for Halloween. Our kids will still go out and trick-or-treat. I'll just tell them to be respectful, and wear a mask, and follow any instructions of the houses they go to (in case they don't want people too close, etc). We'll still hand out candy like regular. Probably wear masks at the door.
We're just setting out the candy bowl. Not too full, and added to regularly (because high schoolers)
I don't know that we've decided for sure what we are doing for handing out candy. I'm guessing we won't do any at all, considering we usually don't get that many visitors even when there isn't a pandemic.
If we were on a more popular trick-or-treating route, I'd strongly consider a candy catapult. That sounds fun.
I love the idea of constructing some sort of candy delivery mechanism--maybe a miniature slide from the front door?
First year in the new house. We will be dark. ☹️
Astros-Yankees would be the crummy ALCS that this year deserves.
Agreed. I came here to say this.
We have costumes, but no concrete idea beyond that. Recent COVID scare for the four of us has me thinking twice about anything not at home.
I did not care for that swabbing ... at all.
I got tested a week ago and they're using the quick nostril swab. Do you guys not have that one up there?
It was 10 seconds per nostril (allegedly) and felt like back-of-my-eye-sockets deep ... is that quick? Wife and Niblet didn’t think theirs were horrible, Kernel and I had a different take.
I've had both. The deep one is not something I'd care to do again, although I obviously would if it was necessary. The other one is not nearly as bad.
I've been tested 5 times now. 3 have been of the quick variety where the swab goes into your nose a bit and swishes around. The other two times I'm sure I scraped some of my brains out. Just thinking about those two tests makes me want to hurl a bit.
The one they are doing down here goes about half an inch inside the nostril and is a quick swirl around it. Its not uncomfortable at all, which is good because my kids would not have appreciated having them swab the inside of their lungs.
Newbish caught a cold at school and we decided to play it safe and get him tested.
He strongly agrees with you about the nose swabbing.
2 of ours (colds, negative, etc.) had tests a week ago too, but they did a throat swab they said, and they thought it wasn't too bad?