Trick or Treat

Once again, time has flown by so fast I cannot believe it has been so many days since I last posted.  Also I cannot believe it is Halloween and the holiday season is starting!  At this point in the game I only have one kid that does the Halloween thing....kids #4.  The cute six year old that is being a ballerina, that's her.  The long steeped family tradition of trick or treating with the kids may be winding down soon for us.  She is the last of the children to want to wander in the dark of the evening looking for candy that I could very easily just buy at the local drug store.  I am at that point in life wondering why we do these things?  It is chilly outside.  It is dark and drivers don't always pay that close attention to all the little ones and big ones running around the streets looking for that perfect candy to get thrown in their bucket.  And being as old as I am and being on kid #4 doing this, I am just ready to retire from the trick or treating thing.  Maybe I can bribe her by just buying her a bag of her favorite candy and calling it done next year!  LOL  Of course I jest.  I would never NOT do for kid #4 that I have done for the other three.  I am just ready to move on to the next level of parenting with kid #4.  That and the fact that Halloween has never been my favorite holiday may have something to do with it also.  I would much rather exert my energy on the rest of the holidays that are upcoming.  They are more meaningful than this one in my opinion.  I will save all my rantings on the rest of the holidays for later posts.  For now, I must venture into the depths of the evening to search for that elusive perfect piece of sugar for a very special six year old!