Halloween 09

I suppose we could have gone trick or treating in the rain.

We would have missed eating gooey eyeballs, and making homemade pumpkin pie after carving our pumpkins. We might have gotten fresh roasted pumpkin seeds, but most likely we wouldn't have. And the house wouldn't have smelled of nutmeg and cloves and fresh pumpkin.

Instead of driving somewhere in the cold rain, we played Mario games and Beatles Rockband. We turned off all the lights and ran around the room with our glowsticks and halloween flashlights. They ate slimed crackers (Easy Cheese and green food coloring), gummy snakes, and colored noodles. They stayed up late, and laughed often with fake bass voices that they donned to go with their mustaches.

I suppose we could have gone trick or treating in the rain, but sometimes things work out for the best, and bring out the best in all of us.