the night after!

What fun!

Kids Galore!

Costumes!

Sweets!

This is has been the first Halloween night that I can remember

that was filled with so much fun.

I actually ran out of sweets to hand out.

But no worries, my two wonderful grandsons came to the rescue,

and were happy to dip into their

own goodie bags to share when the knocks came at the front door.

The rain held off until it was sure every last little tiger, princess fairy,

batman, and vampire costumed pre-schooler was safely tucked in up bed.

So with the rain beating against the windows we settled in for the evening

and sat casually around the living room,

feasting on bowls of seafood chowder bake, and a casserole of

pasta from the oven, finished off with a delicious dessert of key lime pie

baked by my lovely daughter-in-law, Trisha.

We laughed about past Halloween parties, and the choices of costumes that

we all have dressed up in at some time in our lives.

(Remember J. - Salt and Pepper!)

Trisha shared the most precious story of a very young little guy

who came to her door dressed as Buzz Lightyear, from Toy Story.

He probably was barely three years old and stood their clutching his

dad's hand, not really sure what to do.

He very shyly took a chocolate bar from the sweet bowl and turned to

walk away, his father stopped him realizing that he had

not said thank you for the chocolate, and said

"What do you say"

He looked up at him with puzzled eyes, looked at Trish, looked at the

chocolate bar and said nothing.

His father said again,

"What do you say?"

The sweet little guy then lifted his left arm up to the sky,

and in his quietest of quietest voice, looked at his Dad

and still with a puzzled look on his face...

whispered

"...to infinity and beyond?"