I'm swamped with work and loads of stuff to do this year, but I did want to note that we'll be taking the kids out tonight to trick or treat. We'd dressed them up as a flower and a lion at year one, a football player and a cheerleader at year two, and last year was our final opportunity to 'force them' into costumes we selected, where I got my long-time wish of seeing them dressed up as Bam-Bam and Pebbles. This year he's a pirate and she's a ladybug, of their own accord. And it'll be big fun tonight to take them out and about the new neighborhood, which we've been told is a gold mine for doing so.
I had a great time every year as a child doing this with my parents so I enjoy passing it down to my own kids. And of course, arriving at work today I found the assorted few adults who still think they're kids, which I guess is fine. I'm getting less cranky in my old age. Perhaps I'll even give the older teenagers candy tonight instead of chewing them out for being too old to be doing this anymore. But I'll give them the crappy stuff.
I've posted a few entries about Halloween that are still worth reading, or re-reading if you feel so inclined.