Second chances. Everyone wants them but rarely gets them. Everyone knows that hindsight is 20/20 and there is little one can do to in the light of a new day to manufacture a different result. What better time to preform a little magic and create my own second chance than on Halloween?
Today is Tuesday, October 30, and tomorrow, KB and I actually get an opportunity to play Superman. Not because we're both dressing up for Halloween in matching blue body suits, red tights, and red capes - although it's quite a picture! Rather, it's more like we get to fly super-fast around and around the earth so it rotates in reverse thus turning back time to a point where we can actually make a difference in Poppy's Halloween this year.
Last year, our beloved Sweet Pea was born prematurely on October 12. She was actually due on November 20th. After spending some time at LPCH's NICU, she came home before Halloween - my beautiful little pumpkin. Needless to say, the difficult pregnancy and delivery left me out of the loop for Halloween, 2006. Luckily, daddy came to the rescue but there were obstacles we had not anticipated!
Here was the situation: we were in a new house, a new neighborhood, without any young kids immediately around us for Poppy and daddy to go out trick-or-treating with, and there were only about 3 houses lit on our block anyway. So, I had the brilliant idea of sending Poppy and daddy over to the Stanford Shopping Center's trick-or-treating event.
What happened? Well, let's just say that thank goodness I didn't go since I was so hormonal I would have been magically transformed into a weeping mommy blob on the walkway somewhere between Kids' Pottery Barn and L'Occitane in true "Harry Potteresque" fashion.
The situation was so bad that KB actually called me from the mall to report that they arrived so late that most of the stores were already out of candy or whatever "treats" they were handing out. And while he is telling me this I hear "Kids, KIDS, wait up - WAIT FOR ME!" Couldn't you just die?!
My little Poppy is sooo social (even last year at 2 and 1/2) that she was desparately trying to catch up with any group of kids she came across so she could glom onto them and "trick-or-treat with "friends" as she put it. OUCH - that hurts! Just thinking back now still makes my eyes a little teary - Poppy in her beautiful Sleeping Beauty dress, crown dangling down, and wand waving viciously in the air to attract anyone's attention. Well, daddy and mommy certainly let the ball drop there. We were not prepared for our little social butterfly to actually want to be a part of a group so badly at age 2 and 1/2.
Bring on Halloween 2007! This year - TA DA!! Go-Go Mommy and KB are well prepared! Poppy and Sweet Pea will be trick-or-treating with one of Poppy's oldest and dearest friends. And better still - we will be trick-or-treating by our friends' house where kids reign supreme and a nearby street is even closed for the Halloween festivities. KB and I are almost as excited about Poppy for Halloween this year and I think the "Superparents" are going to pull this off and get a definite "re-do" for Halloween 2007 - thank you red cape!
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