Quarantined + Costumeless — Savannah by Season

There was much excitement at the beginning of the year about fun holidays falling on Saturdays and how great they’d be…well, welcome to 2020. Not that we would have been participating much anyway, but having positive COVID tests right before one of my favorite days of the year was quite the bummer. We knew catching the virus was inevitable for us, working in schools, but on Halloween? Boo.

I spent the afternoon picking up the decorations from the front of our house, replacing the orange porch light, turning it off and making sure there was no sign for possible trick-or-treaters to stop by. Looking around our street, I don’t think there were too many other lights on. This year is really something else.

Luckily, we had already purchased pumpkins, so we set up the backyard as our own little Halloween carving station. We had fast food delivered, lit the fire pit and played all our favorite songs from our fall Spotify playlist:

Coach carved a couple characters from Among Us, while I [attempted] to make a jack-o-lantern with a mask on. I completely failed on the placement of the mask strings, but I was too far in by the time I noticed; blame the virus.

Halloween night fell on the tail end of our two week quarantine. Almost all our major symptoms have subsided, but, again, no time to think about costumes, especially the DIY kind. Luckily, thanks to the lockdown and rise of the bleached sweatshirt Tiktoks, I had already given this sweatshirt project a’go and we had at least something to wear to make the night a little more festive.

Bonus: If it amuses anyone else the way it did me, there was an actual dumpster fire in the shopping center behind our house as the sun went down. The fire department came and quickly put it out, but oh, what a time. I couldn’t have described this year any better.