Having grown up in a fairly
conservative, religious home, Halloween was a little different for me
than it might have been for most. When you were young, you probably
saw Halloween as a night to dress up and go door to door with your
friends, hoping to haul home a few pounds of cheap, skull-rotting
candy. But for us, it was a family night. It was the night we went
out for ice cream, or went to the movie theater, or sometimes just
turned the front porch light off and played games or watched a movie
at home.
My siblings and I never really
understood what we were missing out on. We knew what our friends were
doing on that night, but even though we weren't out ringing doorbells
and begging for candy, we still looked forward to Halloween. To us,
Halloween was always guaranteed to be a fun night to go out and do
something special, in an attempt to avoid the trick-or-treaters who
were patrolling our neighborhood.
