Trying to stay patient weeks before
While shopping with the kids for costumes
Only to get home and my daughter wails,
“But I wanted to be a pirate!”
“You’re a girl,” answers my son,
Dressed in his pirate costume.
“ You can’t be a pirate.”
“She can be a pirate,” I reply.
“But this year she chose to be a skeleton.”
Buying enough candy for the neighbourhood kids.
Turning a pumpkin into a jack-o’-lantern
With a candle in its gutted centre
Lighting up its grin.
Rushing home after work for a quick dinner.
Arguments about warm clothes under costumes.
Walking through the darkened streets
Filled with witches, goblins and monsters.
Coming home with kids on a sugar high
Sorting candy, then getting them off to bed
Before crashing on the couch to watch TV
With one mini candy bar from each child.
Gawd, I miss it!
Me too – after a dozen-and-a-half years or it, I didn’t think I would, but I do!
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We always went out in packs of kids. I never encountered parents taking kids around until we moved into our present home. I guess it is safer and less chance for mischief. But I sure loved roaming at night with a group of kids.
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I love the equal opportunity pirating. Here’s one you’ll want to show your son: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58889/9-female-pirates-you-should-know
🙂
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This was a great read – thanks for sharing. (And I will send it to my soon too!)
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