Our House e-newsletter October & November 2013 | Page 15

by Georgia Mjartan, Executive Director
On Halloween, staff and volunteers of Our House piled about
45 kids into personal cars and drove them across town to my
neighborhood, Cammack Village, where we parked in front of
my house and then went trick-or-treating.
It was 5:45 PM and I was standing outside my SUV giving
five kids in costume a little lecture about not eating their candy
inside my newly-cleaned vehicle. As they nodded attentively,
saying “okay, Miss Georgia. Can we go now?” I noticed a
family walking past the guard shack headed toward The
Shelter. It was a woman and three children. One was a newborn, one a toddler, and the third was six. The six-year-old
craned her head around and tugged at her mom‟s hand. I
figured out what she was saying when the mom called over
to me.
“Excuse me. Are you taking those kids trick-or-treating?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“Can my daughter go with you?” the mom asked.
Given that I had never met this family, I was a little reluctant
to say yes. All of t