I dropped Maddie's pumpkin off at my son's house this evening after work. After visiting for a few minutes I made my exit, glad to be heading home for the evening.
On my drive home, memories of halloweens past came flooding in and brought a smile to my face. The years that Eddy, Kim and I dressed up as our favorite characters, hurriedly eating our dinner so we could hit the streets and stockpile as much candy as we could before the curfew that mom had given us. Sometimes we'd run from house to house - walking was a waste of time! We'd call out to friends when we hit a good house - big candy bars or popcorm balls. "Go to Mrs. Green's - she's giving out Hershey candy bars", or "Mrs. Robertson has popcorn balls", or "Mr. Compton is giving out apples again - ugh!"
We head back home with our bags, change into pajamas and finally dump our respective mother lodes out onto the living room floor so mom could go through it. When everything had passed her inspection, we'd separate our own respective piles into groups: candy bars, suckers, bubble gum, fruit and the most coveted of all popcorm balls! Then we'd start trading, and you'd think you were on Wall Street to hear us!
Before long mom would confiscate each of our bags and shoo us off to bed. Mom never let us just sit and eat whatever we wanted. Oh no! She paid the dentist good money and would not have us rot our teeth out of our heads. So she'd dibby it out to each of us each evening after dinner. We could have 1 or 2 pieces and of course she took her share too - a kind of "finders fee" if you will. (She kept it hid so only she knew where to find it) ha! That candy would last all fall and winter. What fun it was.
I hope Maddie has as much fun in her childhood at halloween as we did.
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