Halloween Plans | Pad Patter 10.30

[IntenseMagic]

I've got candy ready! We usually hang at a neighbors house, but it's so much better on a weekend, lol! I put a sign up where we are and to tell people to come visit, lol !Monday halloween... boo, haha! So, I don't know if we will hang out or just chill at home. Pup goes out in the backyard or in my will have to roam the bedrooms so he doesn't scare off all the kids. Or maybe we will take him for a walk.

I don't know if my kids will go out. I kinda hope they will, they did last year... but they are getting older (17/14), and I was surprised last year, haha!

I agree about it being better on the weekend! My kids used to go and just wander the neighborhood dressed up when they got older. They always knew there was plenty of candy at home and just went to hang out with friends.

Turning off the porch light and hiding? This. Although I'm not really hiding, porch light off, no decorations, and I don't normally get very many kids.

I did make my grandson (17) a "Boo" bucket full of his favorite candies (including candy corn), a couple of Halloween themed Matchbox cars, two PEZ dispensers b/c they were both cute, and a bag of pizza flavored Combos b/c I happened to see them.

Awww the boo bucket sounds so fun! I need to remember that next year for my grand kiddos

This is SO me!

If only the window in front isn't where I put our tree I would TOTALLY do this! We are planning on lights out & hiding in the basement to watch movies. The kids are older & typically go do stuff with their friends. We get a lot of trick or treaters usually, but haven't handed out candy the last couple years. We have a new puppy too- so I'm not sure I want to be yelling at him to have good door manners all night long for trick or treaters!

Haha that meme is totally my daughter! I wouldn't be surprised if she went straight home from trick-or-treating with her kids and pulled the tree out!

We have a good neighborhood for trick or treating. My kids always got a lot of candy without even walking all the streets. But now they're ages 16 - 21 and haven't trick or treated since 2019. They had a party on Saturday. I would be fine with just keeping the porch light off and doing my usual resting and watching videos that I do on weekday evenings -- and that's what I'll be doing -- but my husband wants to hand out candy and will be doing that.

I went back and forth on turning the lights out, but yeah...my husband was all about the pass out candy thing. We had 2 trick or treaters besides the 2 grandkids lol

I am in the lights off and hiding camp. In all the years I've lived here, trick or treaters have been rare so I gave up years ago. Then this year, I pull up in the driveway and shortly have someone hitting me up for candy. I gave away the little bit of candy I'd bought for David and I. Next year, I am getting candy and will be prepared.

I should have given up a long time ago but I end up buying the candy every year and every year we end up eating it all. We had 2 trick-or-treaters come by and I loaded them up!

Not a huge fan of Halloween...mainly the scary stuff. I have a few kids who DO NOT like anything remotely scary. And we live in a rural place in the mountains and never get any kids.

I do let my kids dress up and this year the dance studio my girls go to is doing an afternoon trick-or-treat. So I took them up there to get candy from their teachers. On Saturday night my sisters' church was doing a trunk or treat so my one kid who was over this crazy sickness that's been going around our house went with her. He hadn't been out in almost 2 weeks. He was so excited.

Tonight we are watching videos about the Reformation (also Reformation Day if anyone is interested - LOL!) and watching Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin.

I hope everyone at your house is on the mend! I honestly don't know much about Reformation Day, but I'm curious. I did read a little about it when I was looking at the calendar of all special days. I haven't watched Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin in so long! I really need to do that as well!

 

[RebeccaH]

So, update on how we spent the evening. I mentioned in my last post that we usually do chili or some kind of comfort food. WELLLLLL, my daughter plays viola, and this past weekend she was in the pit orchestra for a community theater production of Sweeney Todd. So today, in honor of her Sweeney Todd experience, we made meat pies for dinner. They were DELISH! I think we may have just started a new family tradition!

 

[IntenseMagic]

So, update on how we spent the evening. I mentioned in my last post that we usually do chili or some kind of comfort food. WELLLLLL, my daughter plays viola, and this past weekend she was in the pit orchestra for a community theater production of Sweeney Todd. So today, in honor of her Sweeney Todd experience, we made meat pies for dinner. They were DELISH! I think we may have just started a new family tradition!

Yum!! What a great new tradition!! That is one thing that I've never tried to make, maybe I need to!

 

[dawnmarch]

I was out of town for the weekend and got back just in time to discover that my nephew (who is an airline pilot) was in town for the night. So, turned the lights out and went to dinner with my nephew instead of handing out candy.

 

[RebeccaH]

Yum!! What a great new tradition!! That is one thing that I've never tried to make, maybe I need to!

I don’t know of it was 100% a traditional meat pie. It was just whatever I made up. But it WAS a pie with meat I used ground turkey, carrot, celery, onion, potato, Worcestershire, garlic, paprika and a bit of thyme. I puréed some of the potato with beef broth to make a ‘gravy’ of sorts, just to keep it from drying out.
Then I stuffed some mini pie crusts full of the mix. Super yum!

 

[RebeccaH]

I was out of town for the weekend and got back just in time to discover that my nephew (who is an airline pilot) was in town for the night. So, turned the lights out and went to dinner with my nephew instead of handing out candy.

What an awesome surprise and a GREAT way to spend the evening!