It’s finally here. Halloween night and we are all ready to hit the doorbells. 
Nothing like a dozen kids yelling “Trick or Treat” on someone’s porch, is there? Then to see the look on their faces when they get the candy, now that’s what I call a natural high. Holidays are about the kids. It really chaps my rear when adults try to ruin something for the kids like they have tried to mess up Halloween.
I do like the ‘Trunk or Treat’ thing a lot of churches are doing. You don’t have to walk as far and you know the candy’s safe for the kids to eat right away. You don’t have to take it to the local hospital and have it x-rayed to make sure there’s nothing hidden in the candy.
Well, here’s to hoping you all have a great Halloween and get lots of candy. Remember to tell the people ‘Thank you.’
Well tomorrow I told my brother and sister that we would go to a local pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin to make into a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. We have a tradition of toasting the pumpkin seeds and making cookies when we finish the jack-o-lantern. It’s a lot of fun for us.
Then we usually try to figure out what type of costume we are planning on wearing. I always dress up to take them out too. It’s a blast. We try real hard not to spend a lot of money on costumes. Mom loves to go to yard sales and usually picks up wigs and stuff she thinks we could use to make our costumes. It’s more fun that way if you ask me. We make it a week or two long thing getting ready for Halloween.
I haven’t had a lot of time to go shopping lately with school and work but I went to a department store and they have Christmas stuff out already. For crying out loud, it’s not even Halloween yet. There was more Christmas stuff out than Halloween stuff. What’s up with that? They are just turning Christmas into nothing but a retail holiday and it’s much more than that. Don’t they know that? Don’t they care? It seems that all they care about is money. But you know what, that’s my opinion.
Well before you know it, it will be Monday again. Today is my day to relax and spend some time with my family. Saturdays are usually for studying and spending time with Christian but Sunday, that’s my families special time together. It’s somewhat of a family tradition since Daddy left so I guess I need to thank him for this then. At least there’s one thing I can thank him for lately.
Mom and I usually cook a special big dinner for everyone. Here lately with Mom not feeling very well, I have done most of the cooking. I’m becoming a pretty good cook too I might add. I’m very proud of that because I know too many girls my age that can’t hardly boil water without a microwave oven. 
Anyway today we’re trying something different and I sure hope it comes out good. I have a pot of homemade spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove right now. It’s not totally homemade because I do use the cheapest spaghetti sauce I can find but I doctor it up with green peppers, onions, hamburger, garlic, mushrooms, and extra chopped tomatoes. I also add a little cooking wine to it and it’s not too bad if I do say so myself. The ’something different’ part is the spaghetti. I got a spaghetti squash instead of the usual pasta noodles since Mom doesn’t need to be eating wheat.
I also have a nice salad made and will put some garlic bread on the table for the rest of us but I hate to do that because I know how much Mom likes garlic bread but she said the rest of us shouldn’t have to suffer just because she can’t have wheat right now. I’m learning a lot about what wheat is in and what it’s not in. It’s just about in everything. I’m really thinking about becoming a dietitian. I could really help people like my Mom in that field. I’ll keep you posted on that and how the ‘Spaghetti’ dinner came out. Gotta run stir the sauce so it doesn’t burn.
Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. Spring I guess is right there too. I really don’t know which is my favorite of the two because I love both but for different reasons. Spring because of the flowers blooming and the sun shine but let’s not forget the rising temperatures too. Fall because of the leaves changing to beautiful yellows, oranges and reds and the slight chill in the air after a long hot summer.
Winter, I’m not that crazy about because I hate to be cold. I love to watch it snow and see it on the ground but the minute it stops falling, I want it to go away. It makes such a mess and looks so ugly when people walk around in it and mess it up. It’s beautiful until then and that’s when I want it to just go away.
Summer is fun but not when it’s really hot. Besides, I am fair skinned and I burn really easy without lots of sunblock. Yes I know you can get sun burnt in the other seasons too because I have done it many times but not as quickly as in the summer. Summer means freedom in some ways. Freedom from all those heavy clothes, freedom from school unless you go to summer school or have a summer job which I always have.
This fall feels like a new beginning. I guess because I started college this year instead of going back to school at my high school. I have a boyfriend which I haven’t had in a long time and I’m so looking forward to the future even though everything seems so uncertain now with the economy in such a mess. I’m still looking forward to what will be and not what is. Does that make any sense to you? It does to me.
