HALLOWEEN

This past weekend my sister took my daughter and my nieces to Boo at the Zoo. The girls were so cute. They got all dressed in their costumes and posed for me before they left.

Halloween is coming soon and I am so ready! I remember being young and all excited about Halloween and trying to decide what costume I was going to wear. This will date me, but we used to get those cheap store bought costumes that had the plastic masks and my mom would modify them. I always wished that my mom sewed because I wanted a nice homemade costume like my friends. What is funny now is that my daughter would rather have a cheap looking costume from that store than a good homemade costume! I dont' get it.

This will be our first Halloween in our new neighborhood so I hope I have enough candy. I always worry about that. One year I made the mistake of handing out whole candy bars. Apparently the word got out around the neighborhood because the previous year I had maybe thirty trick-or-treaters but that year we ran out of candy. My mom started raiding my pantry and was handing out packages of popcorn. When I asked her why she didn't just turn off the lights and not answer the door, she said that she did but the kids just kept coming! So, I made a promise to myself that I would never hand out whole size candy bars again!

My sister-in-law's birthday is on Halloween, so every year we head over to their house with the apple crisp I have made to celebrate. Before we have hot apple crisp and cinnamon ice cream we take the kids trick-or-treating in their neighborhood.

By the time we return home I am so ready for bed and I am always glad that Halloween is over!