Food Allergies and Halloween...Boo hoo :(

What I thought was a grand idea to rescue our family from another sad holiday, ended up being just a good save for this year.  I thought that instead of going from house to house and hearing our Cooper say, "Can't have this one Mom," about every piece of candy he received, we'd create a new family tradition.  Sounds like a great idea, right?  I thought so. We decided to go to the movies as a family (picture perfect in my mind) - in real life we went to the movies together, but split in to two theaters to see movies Coop and Dad preferred and another Bailey and I preferred. We then went home and talked about our movies and dined on nachos...it seemed like such a success!  Until a couple days later when Cooper broke it to me gently by saying that he thinks we should still go see a movie next year or maybe we can go every other year for our tradition, but that he really wants to go trick or treating next year too. In the end, my grand idea was trumped, not just by candy cravings, but the craving to simply enjoy Halloween like everyone else. If only it were that simple....here's to next year's tradition?