Trick or Treating
After you have kids, everything you once knew about celebrating holidays changes. Where Halloween was once all about dressing up as a sexy cop and getting drunk in Miami Beach, it has now become all about holding hands and walking past the scary houses with my Disney princesses.
Halloween 2014 was by far the best Halloween I’ve ever had. It completely beat out my high school and college experiences and helping my two munchkins collect their own candy was far more rewarding than having my own pillow cases filled with sweets.
Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Mommy and Daddy (who was on patrol duty) set out exactly at 6:00, the start time for trick or treating on post. It was rainy and crappy, but nothing that we couldn’t brave for the sake of free candy. There were TONS of kids out on the street. We paraded around our neighborhood for precisely and hour before V got too itchy in her costume and we returned home.
After a quick change, we were out on our front porch passing out candy. Something I learned about our neighborhood is that if you weren’t sitting outside, the trick or treaters weren’t going to waste time knocking on your door.
Veronica probably had the most fun sitting outside with us and passing out candy for two hours. I was incredibly proud that for once, she wasn’t trying to hoard it all for herself and was actually sharing with others. I was also pretty surprised by how courteous all of the neighborhood teenagers were. The grand majority were great about saying “thank you.”
How was your Halloween? Did you see any creative costumes?
Sounds like a fun night!
we ran out of candy in 30 minutes! So many kids were out, it was crazy.
Fun! We had so many people! We ran out of a candy almost an hour early. No rain, but it was pretty chilly.
That house up there?! Creeped ME out!
Our base experience was pretty much the same this year — if people weren’t outside, it was because they just weren’t doing anything for the holiday. Most houses just had a bowl out, since so many of them were taking their own kids out as well.
Sounds like fun!!! We did not get as many trick or treaters as last year, blame the 19 degree weather outside. I think everyone in the neighborhood trick or treated for about an hour and then called it quits. haha! But not before hitting up the General’s house for the king sized candy bars 🙂
Hardly anyone came to our house! But John gave HUGE handfuls away so we hardly have any left. 🙁
What a fun halloween! We had a ton of trick or treaters and in the process of sitting outside we met all of our neighbors so it was definitely a win. 🙂
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Sounds like such a fun night!
It’s so true that toting babes around for Halloween is the BEST! Glad your cute fam had so much fun!
Sounds like a great night! I was surprised at how many polite kids we had as well. The majority were great!
We had a blast! We did see a family where the whole family were characters from Frozen. So cool!