What happened to Halloween?

It is Halloween night and I am sitting here in our living room. It is 7:15 p.m. and so far we didn't have a single trick-or-treater come and visit us, yet. Yes, we have our light on and we have candy ready. But no kids. It has been a steady decline since the time we moved into this house two years ago.

The first year, we had a lot of kids come by and we had tons of candy. Last year we already noticed a slight decline. And this year? None, so far. Strange. What happened to Halloween? Where did all the children go? Do they know about our infertility struggles and have all decided not to bother us?

I just went outside a couple of minutes ago to see whether there are any children on the street, but no one out there... Weird. Most of our neighbors don't have kids. Our neighborhood has a lot of recently married couples and some older couples or singles. But we have a family with tons of kids around the corner. Where are they?

We never did Halloween growing up in my home country. But my parents told me today that this habit has been introduced recently over there as well and they had some kids come by.

My awaking temperature has skyrocketed to 98,4 this morning, more than I had the last couple of days. And I have to go to the bathroom all the time. I hate it how I get my hopes up because they will be crushed down when AF arrives.

It is 7:30 p.m. now and we just had our first four trick-or-treaters. I believe they were part of the huge family around the corner. We asked them what costumes they were and answered us, but one teenager girl said "Beautiful". Nice attitude, I have to say!!! Or did she mean that she is normally ugly and is only beautiful today??? We'll see what the evening brings.

Happy Halloween, everyone!!!