"Dressing Up" for Realty & Halloween

As is often the case with a sick child, wake-up time for the day was indeterminate: does the 2 am wakeup count for the beginning of the day? or the 3:30? or the 5? After the medi center said no strepp throat (!?), and after ibuprofin had successfully suppressed the symptoms, and after we finished redding up the house for an afternoon open house, and after the family went to see Hairspray, we ended up the day with our traditional trick-or-treating at Little Saints Night at Malone and sitting in the lounge with Waalkeses, Leons, Abrams & Marcia letting lazy conversation drift while candy-wired children giggled, ran & played -- all, oddly, without a mention of illness from Jaelyn.