Trick or Treat | Brief Moments of Happiness

I am writing this post to remind myself of a few things that my family done over the course of this past week. Halloween week is always hard when you have little ones in the family. We decided to take the ‘safe’ route this year and participate in some of the activities that our community has to offer. This basically meant that in today’s society we don’t trust the act of door-to-door trick or treating. I know I am not alone on this. Craig Ferguson, the late night talk show host, went on to add that it is strange that for 364 days of the year we teach and tell our kids not to take candy from strangers–but then that last day, we let them do it as much as they want. I found that funny and ironic.

This year we visited our community’s annual Halloween Health Fair. I know this doesn’t sound very exciting to most, but it was still fun for us and completely free. Our children were able to play lots of games, received free healthy snacks and prizes, and even got to play on a very large inflatable slide. They also enjoyed being able to see all the other children’s costumes. I tried to get them to follow me in to the Healthy Halloween haunted house, but it didn’t quite work out this year. Maybe next year.

After the excitement of the Healthy Halloween fair, Cassie and I were able to follow it up by putting on the preschool “Harvest” party. This is a new concept, but a good one for a church sponsored preschool. We were a few of the parents that provided snacks, games, and crafts for the children to enjoy. We also done all of the planning. The one thing we learned for the upcoming Christmas party–MORE CRAFTS! The kids loved them and so did the parents. The kids all got to dress up and had fun spending the day playing and crafting. They also really enjoyed the ‘mud pudding’ and attacking me with their spider rings. Just imagine a big football pile-up involving myself and 13 preschoolers. It was fun, but they almost got the best of me!

Sunday was our last ‘Halloween’ activity. We took the girls to our local car museum’s ‘Trunk or Treat.’ This basically involved walking around the three floors of antique vehicles and visiting some of the scary folks passing out candy to the children. They also had a game room for the girls, face painting, and tattoos! The girls really seemed to have a good time this year and never even asked when we were going to go door-to-door!

The first and the third things mentioned should become yearly rituals for our family. They are nice, safe, and fun. Ugh. I hate to say this, but CHRISTMAS is on the horizon!!