What Halloween Traditions Can Teach Us About Dieting
What Can Halloween Traditions Teach Us About Ourselves? Halloween traditions have disintegrated for us. Since we live in a basement apartment right now, we no longer have kids knocking on our front door, yelling, “Trick or Treat.” There's just silence. Up to this point in our lives, hubby would purchase enough Halloween candy to over-spill a huge popcorn bowl, kick back in his hefty easy chair, watch the History channel, and eagerly listen for the tiny patter of footsteps and chatter to make its way to the front porch and ring the doorbell. Each year, however, that pattering and chatter has grown more distant, until last year – when Halloween totally evaporated into the nothing. Now, instead of a dozen kids bringing a smile to hubby's face on Halloween night, there is just us. October 31st will be like any other night now. Halloween traditions will probably be rekindled once we move to Texas, where our granddaughter lives, but for right now, they are simmerin...