Halloween Reminiscences

Looking at all the pictures of Thomas, Spring, Sammy, and Mary made me think of my childhood halloweens. Almost every year I was a witch, with the same custume, at least until Alice got old enough to invent our costumes from random household items. One year we were hugs and kisses, dressed in tin foil with the Hershey's flag and everything. She sure was a dreamer. Nobody came up with schemes like she did. Then Kesly Andersen, a family friend (we thought we were cousins for a long time, then we found out our parents made up a lie), would come over. One of the older kids would then drive us around to go to different houses. Ususally it was Sarah and Vic, but Rachel, Sarah, and Bruce all took their turns I'm sure. We would take out pillowcases to gather our candy in and refuse to come home until they were full. We'd go through all the neighborhoods in Poulsbo that we could find. I loved it. Then we'd come home and sort our candy by size and type. All the reeses together with the bigs ones lined up in a row. Then we trade. Alice could convince us to trade for anything. She sure was a talker. I bet if she'd tried she could have convinced us to jump off a bridge, in fact she did convince me to once when I was little. She was too scared, and then she had to come save me because I couldn't swim so she had to jump even though she was scared. The trading would last for hours, then we'd end up playing our favorite art trading game until Kes fell asleep, he always fell asleep first. Then the day after we'd resort our candy and the negotiations would start over. That would last until all our candy was eaten. Then funny thing was we'd spend all that time trading and then Mom and Dad would steal it from us! Good times. Good times.