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halloween fun

each year, our kids enjoy dressing up and going trick or treating. our downtown does a small costume parade through town and then the merchants provide treats. this is always on a saturday afternoon and we always have more than enough candy when we are done. this works out great b/c our kids love to hand candy out to all the people who come to our house. we live on the main street through town so we have more than enough trick or treaters.

this year....we were gone for the downtown event. i had purposely not mentioned it to the kids so that they wouldn't try to sweet talk grandparents into braving the crowd. i knew that we would be sure to take them on the 31st! mapboy is most definitely growing up and starting to make connections i was praying he'd never really get. (atleast not yet!) but, one grandma spilled the beans about missing downtown. well, ever-thinking mapboy was quick to realize our typical visit to the 3 closest neighbors, one aunt and 2 grandparents was not going to add up to much loot. so sitting at dinner tuesday night this is what we heard:

mapboy: why do we never get to really go trick or treating?

princess: yeah!! we only go to 5 houses!!

mapboy: so i was thinking we should go tomorrow night!

i look at hubby and we kinda chuckle!! he definitely figured it out.

mapboy: we didn't get to go downtown even

princess: yeah!!

okay....so i really try not to raise greedy children, but i also can't deny them the fun of trick or treating. so with shaggy and strawberry shortcake at my side we headed out!! for one hour we walked and walked and walked! they had a blast!! they also were very polite and said thank you each and every time! even i have to admit it was a lot of fun to just walk the whole neighborhood and see families that we knew. hubby stayed back to distribute and then we loaded up to see the family!!

the church in our neighborhood even furnished hot chocolate, cider, and coffee to all adults!! woo hoo!!!! by the time we had gotten there hot cider was sounding really good!!

i love enjoying these moments with the kiddos!!!

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