Trick or Treat!!

Halloween always brings back lots of fun childhood memories which for me mostly revolve around trick or treating! I think kids look forward to Halloween as much as they do Christmas and their birthdays! My siblings, friends and I would of course get all dressed up in a Halloween costume, grab a pillow case or a plastic pumpkin box to collect candy in and off we'd go! The air was so clean and crisp on those October evenings, and I never remember it being cold. We would walk from house to house and would giggle when we were given treats that we really liked. I remember coming home after trick or treating and smelling the sweet scent of my candy bag and dumping it out to sort it into piles: chocolate in one pile, suckers, hard candy, chewy candy and gum in another and then there was the pile of “other” stuff- raisins, or small coins that a few unusual neighbors gave out. My sister always wanted to be the last one in the house with candy so she would somehow manage to save hers, barely eating any of it.  I don't know how she did it, but she would have candy long after ours was gone and of course I envied that!  But even as I got older I enjoyed trick or treating--I remember taking my youngest brother when he was about 5 years old (I'm 14 years older than he is). Determined to get as much candy as possible, and despite his being too tired to go much farther, I wouldn't take him home until I was sure he had plenty of loot to share!  What a good sister I was!!

Once married I would hand out candy, buying only what I'd like so I could still enjoy it! When we had our first house, I would sit on the porch with our first Golden, Tod, and hand out candy. He would be dressed in a tie or something simple I'd found for him.  Since we live in the country, we have no trick-or-treaters, but lots of memories and some candy, just for old times sake!  I hope your Halloween is a fun and memorable one!

**In the picture is Charlie, the evil one, Hamlet in the pink t-shirt, and our boy Sam with Sheba's nose on the bottom right.