For some reason here in PA (or at least where we live) we have trick-or-treating the Thursday before Halloween - why? I have no idea. The weather was great for an evening of walking the neighborhood - I could not believe the number of people that just put out candy on their front porch - more this year than last year that's for sure. My friend Shannon and her daughter (Chloe) came over and went trick-or-treating with us. Gracie dressed up as "Aerial" from the Little Mermaid, Jacob was "Luigi" from Super Mario Brothers and Chloe dressed as the scary character from the movie "Scream" - they all looked cute and were super excited about going trick-or-treating.
Saddens me that I only have a few more years of this with my kids before they lose interest in it. I believe my older son Georgie stopped trick-or-treating at age 11. Like I said, it was a nice evening but after about an hour my daughter (Gracie) started in with her whining and kept bellowing that that she wanted to go home so we just headed back to the house. My kids normally never last more than one hour during trick-or-treating - not me....when I was a kid it was from the time I got home from school until 11:00 p.m. All three kids came back with a few pounds of candy - lots of chocolate and I got all the pictures I wanted.
