Favorite Halloween memories:-wagon wheels- dad always bought these to give away 'cause he liked them.
-giving dad all our peanuts and one token chocolate candy for being our quality inspector.
-I remember bobbing for apples at a church party and thought that was so fun.
-Our youth group scavenger hunt Halloween party that a bunch of my school friends and I did together, driving around like the nuts we were (do you remember that Kim? Netts? Lin? anyone else out there? We got nearly everything at Adam's who was a horror aficionado, but then he got terrified at a cemetery when he thought someone had grabbed his leg).
-the year we discovered that pillow cases made the best loot bags.-the year it was too cold to go outside and we hit a cul-de-sac filled of apartments- trick-or-treating in heated hallways!
Worst memories:-only one- when some lady said I was too old to be trick-or-treating. She said nothing of Kim who is 1/2 year older than me! Just because I always looked older than I was. So I never say anything to the obvious teenagers who come knocking now.
However this lead to another best memory:-my first year to skip out, (when I was so mercilessly humiliated) and we'd moved out of town anyways was the first year Jenn couldn't have any candy either out of a bigger injustice- juvenile diabetes. But she taught me sister love. She went out trick-or-treating and gave me all the candy. The candy came with the bitter-sweet taste of personal sacrifice (albeit involuntary).
We'll be taking out our little wonders- as a pink poodle and as Thomas the train. Someone asked what I will dress up as. I'm going as a crazed mother with two disguised toddlers, roaming through dark streets on some mad hunt for candy along with other mobs of children and parents, trying to keep them from harm/ getting scared and sugar overdose before bed.
We've been invited to a couple of fall festivals, but they are all during prime visits time and another highlight for us is to see so many friends come by in their costumes.
What's your favorite halloween memory?
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BTW- the kids painted the pumpkins by themselves and put the faces on them (Dominique put the nose upside down on hers). We'll carve them tomorrow, so that they will still be fresh enough to cook. Yes- I use the pumpkin- all of it- seeds and flesh to eat, string and skin for the garden.
See, there are advantages to being small. In fact, if I hadn't reached beyond 5 feet tall, I'd throw a sheet over my head and go trick or treating still!
My favorite Halloween memory was getting to every house in the whole town of Ceylon and getting my pillow case plumb FULL of candy and chocolate bars. Then over the next two weeks I was allowed to eat whatever I wanted of it . . . even though I broke out in hives from too much sugar. Then I had to wait another 50 weeks before I could do it again.
Oh I love the memory of us trick or treating in high school and that scavenger hunt. Wasn't that the time we went and did a chinese fire drill in your car and all of us ended up in the back seat. I hope your dad isn't reading this! I remember going trick or treating and being told we were too old! I also remember as a kid getting really cold and borrowing mitts from a lady in the neighbourhood. But this year will be a great memory! Also the year I moved up here I took Harley trick or treating in Colonsay and she could wear shorts but by time we drove 3 hours north to Landis (char's house) she had to have a winter jacket on! Oh what fun times!
This year mom bought a small bag of chocolates and a box of oranges. There was about 5 kids that came by, all in the same car! They took the oranges (mainly because we know them, and they know us.) and the chocolate. But there will be enough for myself and dad for the next few days.
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