Coming of Halloween....

Seems each year, Halloween night is either snow or rain. More kids have had their costumes under rain coats or winter coats.

Those who come to the door, are so cute.. and even the teens who show up.. know they will be getting a handout from this house as well.. as long as they aren’t unruly. A lot of them are with their younger siblings or nieces or nephews.  Even have parents and we give some to them as well.

I know there are a lot of the churches that are having parties on Halloween night.. Which is good, in this day and age.. of some deranged adults…

In my day, we had the grange that would have Halloween parties.. dunking for apples in water, (does anyone do that anymore) games to play, and of course lots of candy… We would have sugar highs for weeks.

When mine went out, I always went with them.. I don’t care how old they were, I wanted them safe.. Safe from bullies who couldn’t or wouldn’t get their own candy. Safe from the traffic, as a kid with candy forgets to look both ways at the street.

And when they got home.. we would sit at the table.. with 5 sandwich bags each kid.. they divided up their candy into 5 piles.. and put them in the bag.. One they got … the rest went into the freezer with their names on them..  It lowered the sugar high.   And last until almost Easter.. and one year they were lost in the back, and found in July.

So be safe out there.. maybe the church thing is the way to go… I know ours has a lot of things going on..  face painting, games, hot dogs, and drinks.. and of course.. candy. I don’t know if they do the dunking for apples bit.

Some homes get up to 600 to 1000 kids.. we have a high of 8 and average about 4.