Halloween

I have so many GOOD memories of Halloween. It all began with Halloweeny Beenies, beenie weenies to the normal person, followed by a few rounds around the block at mom and dads, and met up at Grandma Jeanne's with all the cousins to hit up the older blocks. Those were the days, walking until the porch lights beat us at calling it quits...carrying pillowcases until they were nearly too heavy to carry ourselves...dumping the loot and trading amongst each other. And it really had nothing to do with the candy...looking back, it was all about the experience with the family. I do hope we managed a young enough neighborhood to enjoy this near our house as kids start to grow a bit, but right now, it just isn't the same. It doesn't help that we can't seem to trust anyone to give untainted candy...people used to throw out candied apples and popcorn balls for us to eat! And now we can't trust the candy people give anymore...Maybe there's goodness in this...perhaps He is trying to teach us something...

Some wonderful friends invited us to join them for a pre-Halloween party for the little ones! We had a wonderful time making cookies, coloring, playing with stickers, enjoying delicious treats...Thank you guys ;)

 

 

 

Heading to Grandma Karen and Papa Rob's to show off the costumes...

 

 

And to Mima and Papa Stan's

 

 

Joined by the kids before heading home...

 

And to all, I hope you had a Blessed All Saints' Day...we enjoyed sharing saints stories...and concluded with St. Gianna's story! We followed it up with some family game time. Beautiful day...beautiful night...