Rather then packing up on sugar and candy treats and sit by the front door all night and pass out treats to all the neighborhood urchins, Dianne and I opted to take the low-road and and close up the house and move our bedroom in the back of the house and watch TV all night. We really did not think this an issue let alone a morale issue till Anakah called asking what we planned to do during the evening gaiety of little kids scampering across streets and yards filling the bags and pillow cases with tomorrow dental bills. When she found we were doing nothing Ani was aghast. You would have thought we had informed her we were going to drink heavily and drown kittens and puppies just for fun. Even after we assured her we just turning out the lights and watching TV in our bed room and after we signed a document certifying that no small mammals or any other animals were harmed in the execution of our Halloween evening Ani still wanted to do some kind of intervention. She even , at one time, offered to come by her self and pass out the candy just so our home would not be blighted with the label of, "the house which did not celebrate Halloween". Luckily, for us, Ani had a Halloween party followed by sleep over. Ani did the next best thing of things she could think of and that was to drop off a pumpkin in the spirit of the day, her last hope that that pumpkin magic would change our minds. It didn't. In fact it was best she was not here as we gutted the squash and placed the thoroughly cleaned pumpkin halves into the oven and cooked it for pumpkin pies. Dianne even made a small one for Anakah--we won't tell her where it came from until after she has eaten it.
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