Has anyone ever heard of the Halloween Fairy? I hadn't until two girls from our neighborhood came to our house trick-or-treating last night. Ethan was home with his loot and was answering the door. He gave them pencils (yes, we gave out pencils for trick-or-treats and all but 2 kids LOVED them) and then they asked him if he knew about the Halloween Fairy. He told them that he didn't so they told him that if he put his candy by the fireplace on Halloween night that the fairy would come and take the candy and leave a toy in its place. Ethan explained to them that we don't have a fireplace, but they assured him that he could put his candy just in the living room and it would work too.
Ethan thought this was a pretty good idea, but I told him that the fairy may not know to come to our house so "don't be disappointed in the morning." Bryan and I didn't notice Ethan's Halloween bag of candy in the middle of the floor when we went to bed.
This morning when Ethan woke up he went straight for the living room and was a bit disappointed to see his bag of candy still sitting there. But he hasn't given up hope on the Halloween Fairy. He is going to try again tonight to see what happens and he's even gotten Courtney to try it too.
Some of our neighbors pay their kids $10 for their candy. And I wanted to try something like that to get them off the sugar, but this may work better...and it's cheaper!
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Great idea! My friend's daughter was just diagnosed with diabetes this week and was looking for a way to make Halloween not a huge bummer for her...I'll have to share this with her!
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