We’re going to try out this blog for keeping folks up-to-date on Nora. I’m wishing we started it back when we had lots of adventures to share; instead, unfortunately, most of the posts will not bring happy news, and some will be brief. I will try and post some of those memories, but for now I’ll start with a recap on yesterday, Halloween.
Sorry if we offend folks, but Dylan and I have never been a fan of Halloween, and this year was exceptionally hard. While everyone tried to make the most of the day for Nora, it was an extremely difficult example for her that she can’t just be a normal kid (e.g., go trick-or-treating)…
The morning included visits from teachers dressed up in their costumes (Ms. Turco, Mr. Harris, Mrs. H, Tiffany & Biljana). Ms. Turco also brought a beautiful photo album full of photos of Nora at school.
The pictures started from when she was in her kindergarten class, like this one. Beautiful, but very emotional…
In the afternoon, the entire school did their Halloween dances across the street from our house, so Nora could watch from our front yard, dressed up in her costume, too.
She was hesitant during the day to the activities, but by night she was really unhappy. We offered her several options for trick-or-treating but she refused, and didn’t want to put her complete costume back on. Some friends stopped by to say hello while they were trick-or-treating, but sadly she wasn’t interested.