November 2, 2004

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  That’s my husband’s jack-o-lantern. He carefully carves one every year and puts it in our darkened entryway to greet trick or treaters. We sit with the inside lights out and the porch light and orange icicle lights hanging from the roof on, play a CD of miscellaneous groans and screams, and await the little ghosts and goblins. We don’t get nearly as many of them as we did when our kids were growing up. Back then, all the neighbors had kids about our kids’ ages and we had a steady parade on Halloween night. Now the kids have grown up and the neigbborhood has become senior citizen’s row. We were the only house on our block that even had the porch light on to welcome little ghouls. Because we are teachers and everybody knows us, we still do get a trickle of kids venturing to the door and we enjoy handing out the candy treats.

  

  Madison and Ryan are having a similar experience to the one our kids had. Their neighborhood is full of young families with kids. Everybody knows everybody else, so they can trick or treat safely in their neighborhood. They’ve had their costumes for quite awhile. I took this picture about 3 weeks ago when they were modeling them for me. They are quite the little hams. They were excited already and eagerly anticipating Halloween. That’s half the fun of holidays for children, isn’t it?

  

  Jess sent me this picture of Jake the Giant Baby who is now Jake the Giant 15 month old. It was taken Halloween night. Jake was a cow, but a very modern one with a headlight. It’s clear that he had never seen so much candy in one place before but he was eager to learn all about it. I am sure he will ask to go trick or treating again every night for awhile.

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