It seems that Summer is coming to an end...our house has been besieged with catalogs, filled with pumpkins and ghosties and all sorts of Halloweenie decorations...my favorite holiday....when my two sisters and baby brother were kids...the tension would start to build the minute school started...Halloween was coming...my mother had a big trunk in the basement , and it was loaded with all kinds of things... we would start to rummage through this trunk early, with thoughts of what we would be for Halloween...a gypsy ,a hobo, or something only we would recognize...lol....we would then make a trip to the five and dime with my mother, to top off our outfit ..... a special cheap pair of clip gold earrings to complete your gypsy get-up or scarf......we never, ever in all our trick or treat years, thought of buying a costume...... the trunk held a wealth of things...old hats, an old jacket of my fathers, old ruffled petticoats, shoes.... gloves.....my mother would add to the trunk all year....
the one new thing, we would all have ,was those silly masks that you never wore ...like Zorro..the eye holes would never match up to your actual eye, and the elastic band would invariably brake, the minute you were out the door...
our grade school had a parade Halloween day and that night my mother would always prepare a special dinner...a hamburger and milkshake...something we associated with a festive kids party...after dinner we would dress again...sometimes in a different costume than we had worn that day in school .... we would grasp our paper bag and gather at the front window, waiting for it to be completely dark...that was the cardinal rule ...we would then, hit the streets...madly running from house to house , in an effort to get as much candy as we could carry...never worrying about the danger that children face in today's complicated world...and no adults..forget it .....they would just slow you down... being the oldest... I was to look out for the other three, making sure, no one got lost in the ma lay.....just thinking about it makes me smile... here in the country , the children don't trick or treat...they have a parade in town one evening, on the weekend that is closet to the 31st, all dressed in the appropriate store costumes from Wal-Mart or some other place like that..many repeats of the same popular costume.....but it is not the same......it makes me sad what children miss...the 31st was sacred to us ...a set day that we would start to look forward to again come November 1st....
we were truly lucky as kids...my parents lived in Bethesda ,Maryland just over the DC line and never even locked their door ,when I was a kid..........I still love Halloween and all it's trappings... since I am too old to trick or treat...I just have to be content with designing some special Halloween stuff...Did you know that it is ........................................................................??????
only 64 more days till Halloween...I still keep track....... my husband never forgets to give me a candy that day....
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Those are absolutely toooo cute! When I was a child - it was before the world got mean, and we looked forward to cookies and popcorn balls, and knowing everyone on the street - it was wonderful! My grandchildren always give me the Indian candy corn out of their trick or treat loot. LOL
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