If you celebrate, are you ready for Halloween?
Do you have your offerings of candy ready? I was just thinking about this. Are you the "cool" house on the block, giving out the full-size bars? It's not so bad to not be a kid at Halloween. Instead of having to rely on the kindness of strangers for your candy booty, and ending up with stuff you don't like (Smarties, anyone want to trade for Smarties? No? I don't blame you), you are in control of what YOU will be eating after Halloween. You decide if you're giving out good candy, and therefore snacking on it for the first few weeks of November, or if you're eating Mary Janes. Maybe you LIKE Mary Janes, though. One thing for this year--I'm not letting the trick or treaters choose, I'll do the choosing. Too much swine flu going around, and SIL's kids like to snack out of our bowl when they come over for my birthday. No need putting them at risk.
If you're not celebrating, are you enjoying the fall? This is the last little bit of, "Aaaaahhhh" before the rush of Christmas. The weather is still pretty nice, though I think I'd better wear a long-sleeved teeshirt handing out candy tomorrow night. I think we get so wrapped up in the quest for Christmas that we forget to appreciate the time between October 1st and Thanksgiving: the smells, the colors, the smells, the foods of fall (apple cider donuts, anyone?), and that general sense that the work of the year is done and we got through it. We can think about Christmas, but it's not worried thinking.
So, before I get caught up in the frenzy of tricks or treats, I am wishing you and your loved ones a blessed harvest season. Enjoy the fragile beauty of fall. And, please, if you run onto one, eat a caramel apple for me!
4 comments:
I'm into fun-size bars myself. In lots of types!
Have a great Halloween!
I'm ready to go but I'm hoping some of the stitcher's will want to stay and stitch so I don't have to be the one to answer the door! Bad of me I know but it interrupts my stitching mojo when I have to do it!
I have 13 oak trees in my yard, so I don't get much pretty fall color. I do live right on a lake though that used to have some beautiful color until for some strange reason, the city cut down quite a few of the trees and so now it's mostly pine trees...again, not much color.
What a nice post! This is my favorite time of year although we don't get much fall here in Phoenix. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday so I'm getting all geared up for that. Wish I lived where the trees change but I can always head to Flagstaff to see the birches.
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