halloweenie

I handed out candy tonight. I bought what I thought was enough candy to kill an army, not realizing that the army I had been joking about killing all day would actually arrive at my door dressed as everything from ninjas, princesses, every super hero in the book, punk zombies, Elmo, vampires and even a Jehovah Witness* (no I am not kidding, how did I know this is what the young child was you ask, because his (assumingly) hysterical parents had him dressed in a 3-piece suit, painted on mustache, a mini devil pitchfork and a Hello My Name Is: Jehovah Witness sticker). With the candy on a seat next to the door and me wrapped up in my cozies and my favorite blanket I settled down ready to watch Pumpkin Wars on HGTV - ummmm, quick and humble shout out to my hometown-   WAY TO EFFIN GO KEENE NH, you totally showed Chicago what is up and did it by coming together and rocking the pumpkin carving world! now back to the task at hand - I patiently waited to see little ones dressed up approaching the house. It started slow with a group of toddler aged kiddos (I let them take as much as they wanted noticing that there were no other children in sight), adorable by the way and then pretty much died off, leaving me staring at a huge bucket of candy scared that it would end up being my dinner. But then much to my surprise our street was lit up with headlights and I realized the army had arrived, now they may not have been from our neighborhood but they were here and they were taking over. My night of the occasional candy passing had turned to chaos in a matter of minutes. The second that sun went down it was on like Donkey Kong. At one point I just stood at the door and stopped closing it, it was about this point when I realized how freaking cold it was out and that maybe I should not have been as generous to that first group of kids... I also didn't realize just how excited I was to be passing out candy on our door step. It was so awesome. How lame is that?! I just stood there remembering how much fun I would have with my sister and our friends dressing up and collecting the goods, I can only hope those kids will look back and think the same thing one day. Maybe they will even be like -  "This one Halloween, this awesome blond lady let me take as much candy as I wanted!" I am sure this is unlikely but oh well, I can dream. It was also at this point when I realized the overwhelming amount of candy I had was dwindling FAST and I needed to do something, no I was not just going to shut my light off, I made the ultimate sacrifice, I went to the cabinet and pulled out the candy I had stashed for a later day, the candy that is my absolute favorite and sacrificed it for the joy of mask wearing kiddos. I also threw in some snack size packs of Goldfish and all of the granola bars I could find in the house. Needless to say the house was not egged, there were no tricks, everyone left with a treat, I missed almost all of Pumpkin Wars (thank you DVR) and I started ignoring the doorbell and closed the shades at 9, thinking anyone still asking for candy at this point is old enough to have a job and buy there own...