Trick or Treaters-Oct 31, 11

Even though it is Nov. 4th, I am going to back up the train & write about our experience with our Trick or Treaters this year.  As you know we are living in a new place.  We haven't had children in our area since about 23 yrs ago.  Also, when our children were growing up, they only participated in Trick or Treating a few times.  We felt that God wanted our family to handle Halloween differently.  We began a Fall Celebration at our churches where ever we lived.  It was not only fun, but it would get us out of the house for the evening.  The children would still dress up, (not scary), still get tons of really good candy, & have a lot of family fun.  So when you add those years to our number, that would put us up to about 31 yrs of not participating in Trick or Treat.

Thursday p.m. is when all the family get together for dinner.  The children came at intervals last night.  Amy got in last.  After dinner & while she was doing her laundry, she asked about how our Trick or Treating went.  We had already told her about Lauren, so we got right into the rest of that evening.  {Read blog Celebrate PreChristmas Month Day to find out the beginning of our evening.}  The more we told her about that ordinary night, the more we laughed.  It hit me all of a sudden that I have to blog this conversation.  I don't know if it will be funny to you who are reading this, but it was sure funny to us.

First of all, I began the evening pacing back & forth with my camera around my neck waiting for Lauren to knock & come through the door.  Secondly, while I was waiting on anybody to come, it hit me that Truffle needs her costume.  So, I pulled out her angel costume.  She kept looking at me as I was taking her picture & looking out our front window like I was crazy.

The first timers costumes were so cute.  It was more fun seeing the parents reactions in teaching there little ones how to do the ritual.

I told Amy, "We gave out about 150 pieces of candy".
She then asked, "How do you know you gave out that much?"
I said, "because that was how much was labeled on the bags."
Then she asked, "How much did you give out at a time?"
I said, "I told them one piece.  And I would let them choose what kind.  It was really good stuff.  Then I over heard Dad say, 'Two pieces.'  Two pieces!  This has got to last all evening.  He then replied, 'They were older.'

Later he was giving out 4 pieces to the real older ones.  

                  {Whoever may be reading this, you didn't know you were going to get a play-by-play conversation, did you?  I wrote in the second paragraph that "I have to blog this conversation".  Literally!}

As the bigger candy bars were going fast, we had many different reactions.  One situation we had 2 brothers & a father at the door.  One brother was about 10 yrs old & the other about 7.  The older took his & went.  The younger started digging through the bowl, asking for Kic Kacs.  His father was totally embarrassed.  Now, I know why the father was there.  They never would have made it to many houses if he wasn't there.

When the candy was getting really low of the good stuff, I had about a group of six cute & very polite kids just look at the bowl & say, "No Thank-You," & walked off without missing a beat.  We just died laughing.

Dave & I were alternating on answering the door.  At this point in the evening these kids pumpkins were almost over flowing.  Dave would say to these children, "Since we hardly have any candy & you have a lot, let me just have some of yours?" :)

Parents were bringing these kids by the truck loads.  They would all jump out of the back of the trunk & run up the street, jump back in & start over.  As this was happening Dave gave his commit about not having much candy, & one mother looked at him with a look of, "How dare you not have enough candy for my children."  Excuse me!!

The finally straw was when Dave opened the door & the boys were eye level with him.  He said, "You have got to be kidding.  Did you drive over here?"  After that commit, he thought he better be quiet before they slash our tires.

Well, that is about it.  It was funny then, funny replaying it with Amy & now I'm chuckling writing about it in this blog.

If you are reading this, write me some of your experiences even if it is play-by-play conversational.

                                 ann :)