Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Since I was a child, this holiday has always sparked such a curiosity for those things that were outside the norm of my Christian upbringing. Seeing the fall leaves turn colours watching the squirrels bury and re-bury nuts to stash away for the winter. Drinking hot tea and cider, watching my mom roast potatoes and chicken. Plopping down in front of the television to watch Charlie Brown's, The Great Pumpkin. Begging my mother to let me wear something a bit more ghoulish, to trick or treat. Walking with friends around the adjacent developments looking for haunted houses. But settling for the overly decorated houses with the sound tracks of creaking doors. Then to the trading of the candy, where my sisters and I would haggle for particular candy bits we enjoyed, and eventually get sick on them. I know, that a lot of people say it's consumerism and it's not what Halloween was originally about. But it's really about how you celebrate the holiday, and for me, I will continue to decorate and carve pumpkins, and enjoy sharing that reverence with my children and those in my township. However, a bon fire is a good idea, (any excuse to party!) Happy Halloween!!