Halloween

Was it just me or were there drastically less houses giving out candy this year? We take our kids to my parent's neighborhood and usually every house has their lights on, eagerly awaiting trick-or-treaters but this year a good 50% of the houses were dark. It could be the economy or the ever-present fear in most families these days that they could be victims of violence or the growing trend in trunk-or-treating. I personally let our kids do trunk-or-treating, trick-or-treating and every other Halloween party in between, not because they need the candy, but because when you pay $50 per costume you want to get as much wear out of it as possible! The kids were super cute this year - we had Luke Skywalker, Batman and Little Lamb. They had tons of fun at trunk-or-treat and we only had to bypass one neighbor's house this year (they had a gory mannequin on their porch that the boys decided wasn't worth getting close to for a piece of candy). I adored dressing up a little girl this year in a ridiculously furry outfit complete with pink trimming. She really was not that impressed though!