HAPPY HALLOWEEN

 

This is a grand day for children! Halloween captures two of kids favorite things: dressing up, playing pretend and candy. After these times in which we journey, I really feel for the children not understanding what is happening and aware of the major change in their routines.  I look forward to all the ghouls and goblins (kid variety of course...) who will knock on my door this evening. 

As is the case with most holdays, I think of my mom.  Her Halloween Treat bags were

legendary. In her memory, I also make impressive treat bags....just ask the kids in my neighborhood who remarked to their buddies, "You guys must go here!  This house is stacked!" 

For the trick-or-treaters who visited our family house, there was no rush nor hurry.  To each child (the majority of whom were relatives) my mother would exclaim, "Oh! Who are you? I know! You're Ethel Merckenschmitt." (or some other crazy name...). The kid would laugh. Mom would offer another goofy name....child laughs....and this went on for several minutes per child...each child...every child.

Mom always knew the reason for the holiday and maintained the WHY of all of it....children.  Trick-or-Treat was all for the kids.  Come to think of it, so much of what mom did was for children...her own (blessed be) and all those whom she rocked and fed and celebrated. Lesson learned and lived;