Happy Halloween!

I am fully aware that the title of my blog may offend some readers, but it is definitely not meant to. To some Halloween is taboo, and for that I am still not sure why. When you look for the bad in something, you will surely find it. My parents chose not to. We were raised that Halloween was in a sense, National Candy Day - period! I looked forward to this day for months because it meant that it was the one day a year that we were able to go over to the houses of people we knew and ask for candy. I do not in any way, shape, or form, condone the "dark side" of what some may say goes on during this holiday. But in reality, that stuff goes on each and everyday and we don't stop celebrating life in general, so therefore we allow our children to participate.

We started the evening off by going out to dinner at a local restaurant with some friends of ours from Brooklyn's school. At this particular place, if your child wears his or her costume, they eat for free. The place was packed and it was fun for the children to get to see all the others and what they were wearing. After dinner, Brook walked the kids around a nice subdivision (out where we live in the country it is way to far for the kids to walk from house to house) for about an hour, I followed in the car behind them, and then we took them by to see different people that we knew, ending up at Damma's house. The kids had a blast and came home with way more candy than they need! What a fun family night! Sorry about the sidways photo, but I can't seem to get it to rotate.