Halloween!

[emmagrant01]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween always brings so many good memories for me. It was one of the biggest holidays of the year for me as a kid, the first of the Holy Candy Trilogy -- followed by Christmas and Easter. (Yeah, I was raised Baptist, but it didn't stick.) It's been fun watching the kids come to the door tonight, so excited and proud of their costumes, and having a blast. And MDH and I have been sharing Halloween stories, talking about the one "haunted" house that's always in the neighborhood, the mean old people down the street who miraculously give out entire bars of chocolate at Halloween, and the fact that it was always annoying that your parents wanted to pick over your candy haul when you got home.

I even had a little Hermione come to door tonight! Hee!

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[helens78]

*ggg* This came through "A P L O H E N!" and for a minute I wondered what was going on. :D

I'm wearing my Jayne hat, though this is more for warmth than for a costume; it's COLD COLD COLD here, it didn't break 50 today. So far, no trick-or-treaters -- it's been dark for about half an hour thanks to the DST change. Where are they? I have all this chocolate and no one to pass it out to! >_> They get started very late in Seattle, not until about 8pm. When I was a kid we got started before it got dark!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Nice hat! Wow, it's like 75 here. ;-)

[helens78]

Hee! I tell ya, I've turned into a weather wuss since moving to Seattle. 50 was not always enough to make me shiver. ^_^

[robriki.livejournal.com]

My daughter was Hermione twice for Halloween, and last year one of the boys wore the robe, we sprayed his hair red and he was Ron(I got my $$ worth out of that Gryffindor robe, for sure). It was brrrrrr cold taking the kids out...long johns and mittens and hats. Stupid Michigan.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

MDH grew up in Wyoming, and he says that it would always be so cold they'd wear heavy coats over their costumes, so the only way you could tell people were wearing costumes was if they had one of those flimsy plastic masks on. :-P

[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

The Holy Candy Trilogy...that is awesome.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

When you're a kid, those are big holidays! ;-)

[chocklit-frog.livejournal.com]

I was Hermione or something HP-themed for I think...six years in a row? I trick-or-treated for as long as I could get away with it :D

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I haven't trick-or-treated since I was in high school. There was a year somewhere in there when the appeal of free candy was finally outweighed by the appeal of free beer at a party. ;-)

[bekkio.livejournal.com]

*in the process of picking over my daughters' haul right now*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

By the end of the evening, I start giving out the candy I like the least, so the stuff left will be my favorites. ;-)

[spinfrog.livejournal.com]

wow lucky you, I got two trick-o-treaters, TWO, and this place has tonns of kids :(

earlier today, when I was at the dentist, they were all talkong about their churches having parties, so I suppose a lot of people were kept out of Halloween-things that way..

..heh, instead of picking over my daughter's candy haul, I added about 1/2 lb chocolate to her basket, before buckling & taking her to the mall to show off her costume and be part of the croud of other kids who dressed up..

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't get any this year, not as may as usual. I don't know if it was because it was a weeknight, or if not as many people were out and about. MDH says it was probably because we have a campaign sign for a local Democratic candidate in our yard, and it's scaring all the Republicans away... ;-)

[waterbird.livejournal.com]

I love having trick-or-treaters! I missed it so much when I lived in Germany, so I had high hopes for this year -- my first in the UK. It's still not that big here, though. I only had seven kids, and one of them was almost too afraid to come to the door. It was hilarious when the mother started getting a bit upset: "Susie, come back here right now and take this nice lady's sweets. It's a lovely tradition!" Heh.

Nowhere near the 100+ kids I'd get in the States, but a start, I suppose.

Glad you and the DH had such a nice time.

[singlewoman.livejournal.com]

I love Halloween, seeing all the little ones dressed up, even some of the bigger kids have pretty good costumes. Don't know why, but in my area in NJ it was chickens. Must have seen almost a dozen chickens.

Went walking with a friend who was completely dressed in her traditional witch's costume but her name tag said "Mrs. Snape." She didn't look a thing like Harry!

[ms-mindfunk.livejournal.com]

My four year old chose to be Harry Potter all on his own. I was so proud. We even found these awesome $1 wands at Target, with glow in the dark stars on them. He's been running around the house butchering spells for days, trying to turn his brothers into frogs and all that. The first time he waved his "magic stick" and said a spell, when nothing happened he turned to me and said,very seriously, "I think it's out of magic. Does it need new batteries?" ♥

I love Halloween.