I was always envious of those kids in the movies who could walk out their front doors in their intricate costumes and go trick or treating. Growing up in rural Ohio with a cornfield between each house, my street didn’t do Trick or Treating.
Instead, my brother and I would have to pile in the van to be driven 10 minutes or so into town to get candy, with stupid sweatshirts, long johns and tennis shoes stuffed on under our costumes, totally ruining the whole effect, mom.
And now here we are. Driving 15 minutes into the neighboring town so that our kids can Trick or Treat on a road with sidewalks and streetlamps and houses close enough together you don’t need to limber up before heading out.
On the plus side, it’s still just enough outside the city limits the house on the corner had a bon fire and the old man smoking a bowl (probably for glaucoma, duh) handed out cups of hot spiced rum to all the parents.
Country Halloweens have their upside.
They are so cute in their costumes! Country Halloween sounds pretty sweet.
love!
Also, no stragglers ringing your doorbell just as your kids finally fall asleep after their sugar crash.
hot spiced run… great, another old person with diarrhea.
Rum. I am obviously still rum’ed up.
I think it is so weird that I can only remember one Halloween from when I was a kid, and I don’t remember trick or treating at all.
Gigi is probably the cutest little girl I’ve ever seen.
I’d love to know the story- is Batman there to save Tinkerbell from Vader?
Aww I love their costumes!
AND you didn’t have 750+ trick-or-treaters ringing your doorbell all night despite the fact that you ran out of candy 30 minutes into the festivities. Next year, we can plan ahead… to not be home!
Halloween in Michigan is stupid with the winter coats and 40 bajillion layers of clothes. I was that mom that forced the kids to wear their winter coats last night and I hate myself for it.
Firstly, I need to say that you are one of, like, 3 bloggers that ACTUALLY truly make me lol. And lmao. And wheeze and cackle til my poor husband starts dialling 911. Ahem.
Secondarily, I was deprived of ToTing my whole goddamn childhood b/c i was raised by asshole fundie x-tians who were assholes. Bah. Which is really why I had a second kid, so my ToTing and candy-grubbing and costuming gleeful years could continue foreeevahhh.
Thirdly, I had a bowl BEFORE I went out and maaaan did it, um, enhance the experience. Unfortunately, not one of the verrah comfortably well off people in the neighborhood we Halloweened in offered me a hot beverage, much less an alcoholic one. Hmmpphh.
Your kids are stupid cute. And that is all.
We have one family that loads about 6-9 kids onto the back of a hay-cart attached to a 4-wheeler and drive from house to house since there’s a good quarter-mile between houses in that neighborhood. Then they come into our neighborhood and go around the block. Our neighborhood has one house every 2.5 feet. :)
Your kids are GORGEOUS… A small part of me wishes I had a daughter for the cute ToT outfits…but then I remember that they’ll be a teenager someday and I breathe a sigh of relief. ;-)
I didn’t get rum! Maybe they don’t do that in Canada… Next year I think I’ll bring the kids down to your neighborhood to trick or treat.