more on Halloween

I've been telling my 3 and 5 year old that I was not going to let them go Trick or Treating on Sunday because I felt it was breaking the Sabbath. My smart-alec 5 year old spouted off "Daddy will take us then". I've explaned to DH (a non member) that I have strong feelings about Trick or Treating not being in the spirit of keeping the Sabbath day holy. My DH said something about that concept must be a "mormon" thing. I laughed and said I thought the 10 commandments were for everyone, not just mormons. I then went on to explain that they were not the 10 Suggestions, they were the 10 COMMANDMENTS. My DH said something about the city was doing trick or treating on Sunday so it would be all right. I went on to tell DH that it wasn't the 10 suggestions, it wasn't one of the ten commandments UNLESS the city has an activity planned or UNLESS Halloween falls on a Sunday. A commandment is a commandment and would he please honor that. I think I may have made my point. By the Way - there are activities including Trunk or Treating going on on Saturday so the children will not be left out. Melody

Melody, I am still so aghast that in IDAHO they would have a problem like this. I live in Ohio and NO town or county in our area is havng trick or treat on Sunday. It is either Thursday, Friday or Saturday. We aren't even in the bible belt. Although we do have a lot of churches in the area and many people are very involved in civic issues such as this. We are having a ward activity on Saturday night - Trunk or treat and chili cook off. The little ones enjoy this so much it is just as fun as going out on the street. I am sure your family will be blessed for keeping the sabbath day holy. Hang Tight and I hope all your challenges go quickly! Jane

Our ward does a fun party every Halloween...done tonight on the 29th...each auxillary takes a different room and makes a game...bowling, bean bag toss, cardboard boxes in a maze.....etc...each family brings candy and it all gets tossed into a box and passed to the rooms to give out after the kids do the activity. It's a blast and the kids had so much fun. Tomorrow we are going trunk or treating with my SIL's ward, then a family party at her house for a few hours. We'll meet at 4pm for soup dinner, then the trunk or treat, then back to bob for apples and each mom has made several gross recipes I've found on the internet. Kitty Litter cake, witches fingers, old man toes, deviled egg eyes....I have several jello molds (google it for some samples) of a brain and a severed hand...the kids love that...we mix blue koolaid and OJ...it makes a green drink like slime, then we get dry ice at Albertson's......so fun. I got some creepy bowls, party favors, and it's going to be alot of fun. We will stay home Sunday...and I won't feel one bit sorry to them. They've had a fun fun weekend, and gotten to do plenty. Maybe you can start a family tradition to make a "gross out" party....I can share my recipe collection and web sites. Something we make that is soooo cute, and we hand them out as classroom favors, and the twins plan to give them in class Sunday... Take a small M&M bag, (the body) and 8 tootsie rollls.....hot glue the tootsie rolls in lengths of two, and glue them to the M&M bag like arms and legs.....flip over so they are on the back....and add a chocolate punkin face candy, tie a yarn or rafia belt.....they are so cute. OK....I gotta go.