A Glenwood Halloween

The Beck girls come to trick or treat!  Emily is The Cookie Monster and Elizabeth is Little Red Riding Hood/  We so appreciate them coming out!  Elizabeth had a medical boot on her foot.  She broke it a couple of weeks ago, and it was good to see her out!

Emma Varnes, another Flying Dragoneer, came as Zombie Zipper Girl.  It was the best costume we saw all evening,  The makeup was through the roof awesome - her mother did an excellent job!  Emma was Kitkat in Flying Dragon's recent performance of Charlotte's Web, and also had excellent makeup for that part.

Our son, Benjamin, helps set up our porch for our Halloween guests.  He is dressed as Team Fortress 2 Engineer, a character from a video game.  He made the candy dispenser himself, and is related to his character.

It was our first Christmas at Glenwood, our new neighborhood in Blackshear.

We knew that there might be a lot of traffic,  It was the neighborhood we took Benjamin to, even before we moved here.  

We prepared and planned.  We got ten bags of candy, enough to fill the Halloween bowl, Benjamin's candy dispenser, and enough to refill the containers twice.  We used outdoor Halloween decorations for the first time in our lives.  We placed our record player so that we could play spooky sound effects.

They started to come, but it was slow.  I told Benjamin to start giving kids as many as three pieces of candy each.  Then about 7:30, the crowd began to pick up tremendously.  So much so that we couldn't make it to Halloween's official end, 8:30, and had to give up the ghost at about 8:10.  I'll know better next year.

It was basically a zombie horde.  Easily three quarters of the costumes were zombie related.

Seeing so many kids on Halloween made me nostalgic for the Halloweens of my youth.  Back then, you often got homemade treats, and nobody worried about it.  I asked on Facebook what people got that they looked forward to the most.  My answer, and the answer of a good number of others, were homemade popcorn balls.  The memory and taste of those linger about as long as any Halloween memory I have.

Who knows?  Maybe even next Halloween, I'll dress up.  It would be the first time in over twenty years if I do.