Halloween approaches. I'm staying home this year.
Todd plans to join some friends for one last round of trick-or-treating and David already has friends lined up to come over. (Todd's group is welcome to come over before, and/or after they're finished.) I've got at least 3 boxes of Schwan's cookie dough in the freezer and have 8 punches left on the Casey's school-basketball-fundraiser-punch-card. (Buy a large pizza, get a medium free.) And I have candy to give out since I can't turn the lights off and pretend I'm not home with a house full of kids!
Things are set.
The first few candy collectors will get a bag of Nerds Coated Jelly Beans. (I picked up a bunch of these somewhere along the way and have found that - once opened - they will ALWAYS manage to dump out on the car seat. Not a big deal for the last month-and-a-half, but if the sun would ever come out they'd melt if not found in time.)
After that the candy I'm giving out is what's left from the Midnight-o-Five-day-after-Halloween-Walmart half-price-candy-sale-run I made last Halloween. I'm not expecting the little monsters that show up to be too discerning, but I have a nice mixture put together for eye appeal.
It's OK that it's a year old. Sugar is about the only food that will last nearly forever if stored properly - and Pixie Sticks are just colored, flavored sugar. The Twizzlers and Jolly Ranchers don't stick to the plastic and taste right. Trust me. I sampled plenty. It's all still good. :)
Butlemmetelluwut... Somewhere between Midnight-o-Five and Uno AM I'll be back at Wally for a refill shopping cart full of bags of any candy bars they have left, 'cuz I ran out of Midnight-o-Five day-after-Easter Cadbury and Snickers Eggs a couple weeks ago and I've got a chocolate craving like you wouldn't believe!
Happy Halloween!!!
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How did yesterday's Halloween festivities go? We had only ONE trick-or-treater!
ReplyDeleteI only had one trick or treater too. What's with kids these days???? We hit every house in town when I was little. Now I have a bag full of candy and it keeps screammmmming at me to eat every bit of it and I went crazy this year for some reason I felt I needed 350 little candy bars so......anyone want a candy bar????
ReplyDeleteSorry. Can't talk right now.
ReplyDeleteMouth full of Butterfinger. :)
Yeah, well, I almost finished off a bag of "Take 5" candy bars all by myself. Have you tried those? Mmmmmm....so good!
ReplyDeleteI had some friends over and the kids had some friends over but we only had a couple people stop by for treats, and they were people I know.
ReplyDeleteThe house at the bottom of my dead-end street had a few people pulling into their driveway, so they must have gotten a few more.
I didn't even see kids walking down the road past my dead-end!
Sandra! What the heck? I can't believe you only had 1!! That is weird! We didn't have a ton either-probably 35-40?
ReplyDeleteTake 5's are the best. I don't buy them for that very reason.
Did the boys have fun, though? That is the main thing!