I still haven’t decided if we’ll be celebrating Halloween at our home tomorrow evening. Most years we decorate the front of the house with Halloween figures and some of that fake spider web stuff, but we didn’t do that this year.
Why? Well .. we’ve never had a dog at Halloween and Midnight barks and jumps around like crazy whenever anyone comes to our porch (mailman) or knocks on the door so I can just imagine how she’ll react when little kids all dressed in their cute Halloween costumes start coming to the door in droves.
I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be scared by the kids in costume, she loves kids, but I’ll bet she’d scare them with her barking and jumping. Plus it will be very tiring for us telling her to stop barking for hours on end and holding on to her collar every time we open the door!
So yeah … we’re thinking of just not participating in Halloween this year. If we don’t, I’ll lock our outside screen door so kids can’t come into the enclosed porch and I’ll close our decorative heavy curtains (that I rarely close) so the house will appear dark.
I really enjoy participating in Halloween and or holding Halloween parties, but with Midnight only being a little over a year old and rather hyper I think it will be easier to just skip Halloween this year.
Do you participate in Halloween every year – handing out candy to the kids or have you skipped it on occasion for some reason?
I’m probably skipping Halloween this year. There aren’t any kids, mostly high school and college aged teens. It’s not like they go trick or treating!! I’ll probably do a monster movie marathon and just veg out 🙂
The mrs and i always buy gigantic packet of sweets and candys in time for the Halloween as kid’s often come knocking on our doors.
Our kids are grown and have moved on so we spend the Halloween celebration together indoors watching a film or two for the night.