Our kids enjoyed the holiday when they were young, in fact our daughter and friends even had some amazing parties durng highschool. She and her friends were involved in theater and the arts…..so some of the costumes were way above amazing. They'd all gather at our house for awhile and then go around the area trick or treating for Unicef. Fun memories.
I created home made costumes for the kids every year and even some for grandkids who arrived years later….wish I could find pictures of them all. The holiday itself has become much "bigger" than when I was growing up. We had carved pumpkins on our porches, and my friend, Sally, and I had several parties in grade school - the kind where you blindfolded your friends and they had to dip their hands into bowls of wet spaghetti (guts!) or olives (eyeballs).
Now the decorations are amazing and homeowners compete with lights and lights flashing in time to music, and there are haunted houses all over the country up and ready to scare the you-know-what out of visitors. Television shows (news and talk shows) feature commentators dressed in very inventive gear. Their costumes get better and better every year.
So Halloween is fun…in spite of a drizzly day here in Wisconsin the ghosts and goblins are out and about. Parents are wondering whether to ration the candy or let their youngsters just have a huge sugar high for a day or two and get it over with. And Dave and I are looking at a few photos, enjoying a glass of wine and living in a condo where no one comes to the door.
Not sure that's a good thing.
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