Halloween

October is my favorite month of the year, hands down. Halloween is my favorite holiday. On the 30th I grow another year older and on the 31st it never fails... I revert back to being an eight year old no matter what my numeric age is. We've had about 25 trick or treaters so far, but I was hoping for 300. We had the older kids who grab handfuls and don't think you notice that they are using a pillow sheet as their bag. And of course the tiny ones who are too scared to even talk; they pick the Almond Joy that you know they won't like yet. The tiny ones are my favorite though.

I came home early, heated up leftovers, and after some ice cream and some candy, I have been standing vigilantly at my door waiting for the doorbell to ring. Occasionally I'll sit on the stoop waiting for the next batch of kids. Do you know how hard it is to wait when you are as jacked up on sugar as I am? Look at me now, I'm blogging, so I won't peer out the peephole for endless minutes getting dizzy from the blurry view.

I live in a town home development so you would think the streets would be swarming. Maybe it is still early. I wonder if the kids are at the mall trick or treating. Have you heard about these new safe events they hold for the children at the mall? My kids will be dressed in costume and hoofing it across every street in the neighborhood. (pillow sheet in tow.) A boy around 10 years old just came by dressed in his private school clothes (we think) and holding a briefcase. I asked if he was a traveling salesman, but no, he's a tax collector.

This is my first Halloween in a house I co-own. My husband and I own the closets and bathrooms and the bank owns the rest. Oh and I own the doorbell which makes tonight very exciting. Maybe I'm so excited because I've always wanted to live in a place with lots of trick or treaters. Where I grew up, if we got 2 we were shocked and those were my friends down the street. A good Halloween for us was waiting until morning to see if our mail box survived another night.

I was cruising the blog circuit earlier today and hit 'next blog' after my own. It's a random thing I guess but it was an eighth grader's blog talking about boys and her friends and I got totally weirded out. I'm still not sure how I feel about the world of blogs especially with today's youth.

That was just a side note. OK, well I'm going to sign off and check the street again.
Happy Halloween to you and yours!