At the beginning of October I casually suggested that we skip the Halloween festivities- turn out the lights and save the costume/candy cash for something else. My mother and husband looked at me like I was CRAZY! "How could you skip Halloween?" "Don't you want pictures of their first costumes?" And so the guilt trip began. I caved. We bought pumpkins and I strung jack-o-lantern lights in the bushes. We bought fifty bucks worth of candy (I mean if you're gonna do it you gotta do it, right?) and found some lame costumes for the babes...Halloween night went something like this: take an early bath so we can greet all those costumed kids in our monster suits. Get dressed up to go outside for pictures. Will not sit for anything to get even ONE good pic. Five minutes later they are screaming to get the horrible outfits off. At 7:15p we still had NOT ONE TRICK OR TREATER. The early bath threw the kids off and they wanted to be in their beds by seven. By 8:30 we had had only seven kids. At nine o'clock we put the HUGE bowl of candy we still had on the front porch hoping some teenagers would dump it in their bags. Not a chance. By 11p it was all still there. Moral of the story...I should have saved the $100 (and all the calories I consumed by eating the leftovers) and skipped it. Just call me scrooge but some things really aren't worth the headache...


This is the best picture we got- no heads...


Waiting for the Trick or Treaters that never showed...