To be a kid during this week. Do you remember how exciting it used to be? Ah, good old Halloween week. Getting to wear your new Halloween costume and heading out in your neighborhood to see who handed out the big size candy bars. My favorite houses were always the bags of chips. I was always a salty-over-sweet person. Then coming home, dumping out all your candy, and separating it all. One pile for the chocolates. Another pile for things like Starburst, skittles, Swedish fish, and Sour Patch Kids. Lollipops all went together, then salty in another. It was always fun going through it all. Of course, you had that reject pile with crap like tootsie rolls, taffy, dum-dums, and those foil-faced pumpkin chocolates that no one liked. (I will tear a tootsie roll up now, but those were all boring picks to a little girl.) Isn’t it funny how we remember these things?
Dad always took us out trick or treating while mom stayed back and handed out candy to all the neighborhood kids who trick or treated in our neighborhood. It was always such a hoppin’ street back in the day — good old Roosevelt Ave in Old Lycoming. We took our kids trick-or-treating there and still do to this day. It’s so nostalgic. It’s neat seeing old neighbors just the way I remember as a kid. The neighborhood still seems to get quite a bit of trick-or-treater, too!
Kenzy still trick-or-treats. She absolutely loves it. I tease some of my old neighbors, saying when she gets too old, can we still come trick-or-treating? They, of course, welcome us with open arms. I’ll be sad when the day comes that our kids are officially too old to trick-or-treat, though. I remember when Ty was born, we took him out when he was old enough, and how fun it was. It had been years since I had been out trick or treating! See, if we lived somewhere where we got trick-or-treaters, it would be different, but we don’t. We live in the country where there are zero trick-or-treaters. But just because we live out doesn’t mean I don’t decorate like I do get trick-or-treaters.
Remember a few weeks ago when I told you about Bonnie & Clyde? Our real life size skellys that I bought last season and had so much fun with? I wanted people to wonder what they were getting into each year after last year having them roasting marshmallows around a fire. I seriously think we are the only house on our entire road to decorate for Halloween this year, and the main road we live on is a few miles long. I mean, out here, you’re like, “Who sees it anyway?” But I still love doing it! I think it brings the magic back from when I was a kid, and I love giving that to my kids and other kids who drive by at night and see it. Right there, all the work is totally worth it. We have a longer driveway, and our house sits in a woods setting. But at the bottom of our driveway, you can see better from the main road, so that’s where Bonnie & Clyde always park their boney butts. This year, they weren’t sitting, though. They were standing!
(Impressive. I know.) My hubby helped with that part, haha.
Picture this. It’s a fall night, and the moon is shining brightly. Two skeletons are standing in the light of the moon. (And maybe a spotlight light that’s shining right on them.) Around them are graves that glow neon colors with a black light. Clyde is holding his prize position of his sweet, bright orange Les Paul guitar. He is playing “Dragula” by Rob Zombie. Bandana wrapped around his thick black hair and a smile real big on his face. Next to him proudly stands Bonnie. She’s wearing her new look of long blonde hair and also wearing a bandana. Just standing there looking as foxy as she can next to her man, the lead guitarist. She’s jammin’ with her man but still has time to wave to folks as they drive by. She’s super friendly that way. In the ground pops out these two skeleton hands from a grave. They put up the rocker hand symbol as they felt the beat below to the song Dragula. It’s a rock concert in a graveyard, and Bonnie & Clyde came to party. Coyotes howl in the distance, and an owl hoots in the tree above. It’s Hallow’s Eve, baby, and everyone has come to rock!
Happy Halloween!!
Super Easy Halloween Punch
Ingredients:
• (2) – 2-liters of 7up
• Quart Raspberry/Orange/Lime Sherbet Ice Cream
Directions:
Put cold 7 up in a clear large punch bowl. Dump the ice cream in and stir. The punch will turn a beautiful purple color and have pops of orange and green ice cream in it.
The kids and adults will be sure to love this treat after a night of trick or treating.
Add gummy worms, plastic eyeballs, a frozen hand, ice cubes with plastic spiders, or carve faces into peeled apples and let them float around in this punch! There are so many things you can do to make it hauntingly good.
