Halloween

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.

As our children grew up we as a family decided to demphasize the holiday and yet make the day fun for all. Our tradition was to make pizza and enjoy the evening at home with the family.

We continued in that spirit this year with the grand girls craving pumpkins, playing a game with candy corn and of course eating pizza and pumpkin pie.