I didn’t realize that Halloween is not celebrated outside the US. (I don’t know about Canada. I assume it is celebrated there since we’re neighbors. But the other English-speaking countries, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, don’t celebrate it. The churches there view it as an evil holiday that celebrates witchcraft and other evils…) OK, so it does have witches and bats as part of the theme, but it’s still fun to watch the kids dress up and go door-to-door for candy (or to dress up and go to a costume party.) I think some of the other countries take themselves too seriously…

So, we had our own private Halloween at home. We had gotten some candy from friends and family at home that we saved for Halloween and we bought some in town this afternoon. (The stuff we bough in town was all stale, but the kids and I ate it anyway because it was chocolate.) Charlotte was the only one that made an attempt at a costume. She put on a dress and a tiara and was a princess. I made them come to the kitchen door and knock. Either Leslie or I would answer and make them tell us what they were dressed up as. They had to have a different answer each time. It was entertaining for a few minutes. We couldn’t go door-to-door for an hour, but the kids were happy.