Amy Schmitt and her son love to dress up for Halloween. The house is always festooned with decorations, and locals know it’s a must-visit stop along any trick-or-treating route.
However, after her son was hospitalized two days before, Schmitt had no time to join in the festivities, and left a simple note on her door apologizing that her son Jacob was in the hospital and there’d be no candy this year.
You can picture Schmitt’s disappointment, but as the night began to fade, her phone began to buzz.
It was the Ring doorbell camera app, alerting her to movement—a group of children who were dumping some of their own candy into a bucket on Schmitt’s porch for her and for Jacob.
“It’s overwhelming, all the love we’ve got… and I don’t know half these people,” Schmitt told ABC 7 News Detroit, adding that the parents deserve major credit for raising such considerate young neighbors. “It’s just amazing… what these parents have raised these kids to be.”
Several groups of children made the ad-hoc donations, including 6-year-old Mia, who WXYZ Detroit notes had finished trick-or-treating, only to ask her father to go out again to collect candy specifically to leave at Schmitt’s door for Jacob.
“She felt bad and didn’t want anybody not to have candy on Halloween,” said Mia’s father James Sayen.
