Tag: Halloween

Halloween has an identity crisis. If I go uptown to my local Trunk or Treat event tonight, I’ll see cute little pirates and princesses all lined up with their pumpkin-shaped candy buckets. Parents will have infants and toddlers decked out as baby animals or pint-sized superheroes. It’ll be a-freaking-dorable....

It seems that every Halloween, the debate over “how old is too old to go trick-or-treating” resurfaces, and people start taking sides, engaging in online discussions about what will happen if we let middle school and high school students dress up and ask for candy on Beggar’s Nights. This...

Happy Halloween! Well, if you’re weird like us Central Iowans, you celebrated tonight with trick-or-treating. (We do “Beggar’s Night,” which is never actually on Halloween. Yeah, I know. Weird.) Boys #2 and #3 were ninjas, and Boy #1 just hung out as his friend’s house and played video games....

What I like about Halloween: Candy Pumpkins Candy It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Candy What I hate about Halloween: Anything scary It’s official. The last of my boys has gone over to “the dark side.” Looking through websites at possible costumes, Boy #3 became entirely angry with me...

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Halloween is right around the corner. Do you know what your children will be dressing up as yet? If you don’t know yet, just walk through Target or WalMart, and I bet your kids will provide you with about 10 ideas of costumes that they really, really want! It’s...

What was your kids’ Halloween “trick”? You know, like doing a cartwheel or telling a joke… Boy #3 told his version of a knock-knock joke to those neighbors who dared to ask him if he had a “trick”: Knock-knock.Who’s there?Boo.Boo hoo?See? I made you laugh! Boy #2’s trick? Well,...