Halloween

With five children Halloween was a big occasion. They did not get a lot of variety in costumes. Sometimes they were clowns for a few years, sometimes they were cowboys and cowgirls, One year they were ghosts. We handed out candy each year. I went through their sacks carefully each Halloween when they came home. I threw out any homemade cookies and washed any fruit they received. They never liked people to give them fruit as it broke their candy. One Halloween Scott, the youngest was ill and could not go so they took a sack around for him. Now children go to malls and churches have "trunk or treats" where the children just go to church and walk around the cars. Our neighborhood used to get school buses full of kids. The kids would get off the buses, which were generally parked in front of our house, and divide into small groups and go around to houses. When I was growing up they were pretty boring unless you went to a Halloween party as people never had treats. I know one activity was throwing corn at people's houses which was pretty boring. However, I did meet my husband to be at a Halloween party and I did win 12 cents in a Halloween costume contest. I hope Halloween is good for everyone.