It's the morning after Halloween. The kids are at school, I've got the day off, and the house is clean. So... I get a playday! As a working mom and wife those are few and far between. It was a wonderful Halloween. I LOVE Halloween. It's my favorite holiday. It was surprisingly warm. I cleaned, cooked, baked. Made jack-o-lanterns with the kids. Walked them to exhaustion, sat on the porch passing out candy with them, performed a ritual, watched last night's 'Charmed' that I'd recorded with the DVR (I LOVE DVR), and then passed out on the couch. Phew, I'm still tired.  More coffee anyone, lol.

I was a little disgruntled last night though. What happened to Halloween? I mean sheesh when I was a kid only the crotchity people turned their lights out. Last night I noticed that you were lucky if 1 or 2 houses on a block had their lights on. Their were 2 churches that were inviting people, and both of them were trying to get you to pay for food.  And their weren't that many kids out either. We had maybe 10 trick-or-treaters. My poor little son was getting really upset at one point because we live next door to a nice lady who runs a daycare. Parents the she babysits for brought their kids, but wouldn't come over to our house. At one point my son stood up with a handful of candy and said, "Hey we got candy!". It was cute and sad at the same time.  We live in tiny little town, I don't know why they didn't come over.

One of our trick-or-treaters was a very sad looking little girl of about 10 years. She looked about to cry, I asked her if she was having a happy Halloween. She said not really and when I asked why she said it was because no one did Halloween anymore. I looked in her bag and noticed she didn't have very much candy. So me and my kids loaded her up. I hope she cheered up.

I've been reading articles on Witchvox about towns moving Halloween to Saturday and towns cancelling Halloween, all because someone, pagan or christian, might be offended. Well I say.... Come on people Halloween is about kids. Yes it has represented alot of things throughout the past...for Pagans and Christians. But as a tradition it's also about kids. It's one night they are allowed to play dress up, act silly, stay up late, act in ways that any other time of the year we tell them it is rude (going around to people and asking for stuff), and eat tons of candy without hearing us say it's not good for you.

Our kids are growing up too fast! They are learning things in school a year and two years ahead of when we learned it. Our kids are under WAY more stress and pressure then we ever were! People can't seem to understand why kids are getting into trouble at earlier ages. Perhaps it's because we're treating children like adults and by the time they are teenagers they think they are adults and stressed out one's at that.

ANYWAY! Getting off on a tangent there. Almost ready to step off the soapbox. What I was saying is, for one night on Halloween, let's put away our politics, and just have FUN  with our children.  Here's  to taking the HOO off of BOO HOO next Halloween!!!

Have a Great One, Mel.

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can i sit in here?:-?please please...allow me to wish you GOD BLESS YOU :)

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