I always fuss over what to buy
for handouts. I’ll never forget the year I bought juice boxes, and what my
granddaughters said about my handout choice. Juice boxes? Nana, you actually
bought juice boxes for Halloween? I thought it was a great idea. I still
do. But I didn’t buy them again. If any of you know of a healthy snack that’s
an appreciated treat, let me know.
When we lived in the country we
didn’t have many children come to the door trick-or-treating. At a discount
store I purchased colouring books, crayons, little crafts, and fun toy thingies.
I invited the children in to pick out what they’d like. It really didn’t go
over as well as I’d expected. Back to the sugary treats.
This year when I bought cans of
pop I wondered if kids still drank cream soda, orange crush, and root beer
(they do! Root beer is the favourite), bags of candies (next year I won’t get
any licorice), wee boxes of smarties, those little chocolate bars – which I had to re-stock before the 31st (eyeroll) – and boxes of potato chips. I second-guessed myself
as I put them all out on folding tables in the foyer. I’ll give the smarties
and little bars to the toddlers, pop or chips to the older ones. Then I considered
giving out a few candies with a can of pop, some chocolate bars with the chips…
And so it went.
That night it took only a couple of trips to the door for me to change my mind about everything. This is