Halloween

I look forward every year to our city's "trick or treat" time. We live in an older neighborhood with lots of mature trees. It is fun to walk the block, watch the other families walking around, but most of all stopping for a quick visit with our neighbors. I also enjoy hearing the sound of crunching leaves under everone's feet. I purposely do not rake up our leaves until after Halloween. The crunching of leaves underfoot as trick or treaters arrive at our door has become a treasured sound that I only associate with Halloween night.

Our oldest daughter enjoys passing out the candy. Tonight she put her garden hat on that she decorated with a bunch of fake flowers someone had given us along with her apron. This year she has been three different things-a "hippie" (her friend and her went as peace (hippie) and quiet (mime) for their youth group dance), telepath (her friend and her dressed alike and wore homemade antennas on their head to home school coop on Thursday) and tonight a florist. All inexpensive costumes made from things here at home. She has enjoyed sitting on our front porch the past couple of years, dressed up in a costume and pass out goodies to the neighborhood kids. 

In the meantime, Chuck and I took our youngest daughter, dressed up as a princess from an assortment of play dress-up clothes she keeps in her room, around the neighborhood to trick or treat.

I have always encouraged our children once they are old enough to come up with their own costumes. We have acquired various accessories over the years. Some we keep in Makenzie's dress up drawer. Others we pack away in our Halloween holiday boxes downstairs.

It was an enjoyable family night followed with our annual viewing of It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Happy Halloween!