It's time for another
Amazing Autumn Coffee Swap topic. This week's question:
With Halloween coming up this Friday, tell us what you think of when you think Halloween! Do you love it? Hate it? See it as a sign of Fall? Are you a total sucker for candy and little kids in cute costumes? 
I love
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It's one of my favorite holiday cartoons. Tonight I was very happy when my trainer called and asked if we could move my workout ahead an hour. That meant I would be done in time to watch it. Yea!
As for the little kids in costume - you betcha, I'm a huge sucker. We live on a dark dead-end street so we don't get many trick or treaters. My favorite was the year the neighbors dressed up as us. Their oldest daughter A was Beau, the young one E was Lucy, Mom was me - walked Beau & Dad was JB walking Lucy. It was super cute and nobody took a photo!
I'm just curious, are there any other parents out there who think that Halloween is totally contradictory? As parents we spend years telling our kids not to talk to stranger and never ever take candy from strangers. Then one day a year we dress our kids up, take them to stranger's house and they beg for candy! Wrong?
Also - how did everyone know it was Charlie Brown with all the holes and how rude that everyone gave him rocks!
Happy Halloween everyone. Don't eat all your candy at once.
It's time for another Amazing Autumn Coffee Swap topic. This week's question: With Halloween coming up this Friday, tell us what you think of when you think Halloween! Do you love it? Hate it? See it as a sign of Fall? Are you a total sucker for candy and little kids in cute costumes? 
I love It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It's one of my favorite holiday cartoons. Tonight I was very happy when my trainer called and asked if we could move my workout ahead an hour. That meant I would be done in time to watch it. Yea!
As for the little kids in costume - you betcha, I'm a huge sucker. We live on a dark dead-end street so we don't get many trick or treaters. My favorite was the year the neighbors dressed up as us. Their oldest daughter A was Beau, the young one E was Lucy, Mom was me - walked Beau & Dad was JB walking Lucy. It was super cute and nobody took a photo!
I'm just curious, are there any other parents out there who think that Halloween is totally contradictory? As parents we spend years telling our kids not to talk to stranger and never ever take candy from strangers. Then one day a year we dress our kids up, take them to stranger's house and they beg for candy! Wrong?
Also - how did everyone know it was Charlie Brown with all the holes and how rude that everyone gave him rocks!
Happy Halloween everyone. Don't eat all your candy at once.
Yeah...that bothers me about the rocks! Poor Charlie Brown. Snoopy is my favorite.
ReplyDeletehey...guess what...we have SNOW!
I like the costumes and jack o lanterns, but I guess I should save something for my own post, eh?
ReplyDeleteI love The Great Pumpkin movie! It makes me giggle.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of Halloween, but always try to get neat candy for the kids anyway.
ReplyDeleteI love that the little kids like Beau and Lucy so much that they dressed up as them! I've never had trick or treaters except when a parent specifically drove them to see us!
ReplyDeleteI always loved Halloween as a kid. We'd decorate grocery bags for our treat bags and decorate the front door window with bats, witches, and ghosts that we cut out of construction paper. We had some store bought costumes we wore multiple times or we made up our own. I don't have children but if I did I'm sure I would sew them costumes. Yes, it's contradictory to go to strangers' houses but they are people who live in our neighborhood and it's really a shame that we hardly know anyone.
ReplyDeleteUsually I'm working and come home too late for trick or treaters but I'm unemployed right now and hope I get some early birds. Last year I think I only saw 4 trick or treaters.
When I was 6 I must have been sick of my sister already because I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted a baby brother the next time Mom had one. On Halloween, 1956, she went into labor and a few days later...she brought home 2 BABY BROTHERS!! I think she must have known she was having twins, but I don't recall knowing that in advance. I was so happy! So Halloween has always been a combo holiday in my family.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown always is the kick-off for the whole holiday season. DH's birthday is Oct. 24, so we frequently watch it as part of his birthday celebration.
ReplyDeleteWe know when we see Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin, it won't be long 'till he and Charlie Brown are braving the snow to find a Christmas tree...