Okay. I’m going to
step in it. Halloween irks me. So how about I leap-frog right over Halloween
and get a head start on Thanksgiving.
This Halloween, I’m thankful that….
·
I live in an off-the-road, upstairs apartment with
two sets of steep, wooden stairs on the dark side of the building. Pretty sure I won’t have any costumed
company, but I think I hid some Reese’s® PB cups around here somewhere….just in case;
·
my kids are grown so I won’t wake up tomorrow
with a belly ache because I ate all the candy they didn’t like. There are
starving people somewhere in the world and I can’t throw food away;
·
I’m not a teacher and won’t need extra sleep, Xanex® and a Kevlar® vest for the
next week so I can manage a room full of sugar charged students who bring
gummie bears, chocolate kisses and Dum Dums for snack and lunch then throw up
in the middle of recess;
·
with the money I didn’t spend on four bags of Halloween
candy I bought some vitamin C so I have a chance at not catching the next bug
that the sugar disabled kids will start passing around next week, and Puffs® with lotion
in case the vitamin C fails;
·
I have
friends on Facebook who will post great pictures of their costumed kids and
grandkids that I can ooooo and ahhhhh over, because they truly are adorable;
·
I have childhood memories of wearing my brother’s
Pop Warner sweat infused football gear from door to door, dumping my loot out
on the bed and swapping favorites with my sister;
·
my sister didn’t like SweeTARTS® and I didn’t like Twizzlers®. She was too young to know that a giant
SweeTART® was worth more three Twizzler® and I never told her;
·
my mom kept Anbesol® on hand for the canker sores I inevitably
got from eating too many SweeTARTS®;
·
giant SweeTARTS® will be on sale half price tomorrow at the corner drug
store and they open at 7:30. I should
still be able to make it to work on time;
·
you may outgrow the tradition but never the memories.
