November 1 - Halloween Recap

Today is the first day of the national blog posting month wherein you are supposed to post to your blog once a day for the whole month. I never discover that it is NaBloPoMo until several days of it have already passed, so I am excited to get in on it from the start this year.
November 1 seems like a good day to start since it offers a nice chance to recap Halloween. Sadly, I have no pictures of Penny from trick-or-treating currently in my possession. Her friend Ally came over along with her parents (they live out in the styx sticks)  to trick-or-treat our neighborhood. I fixed us some black bean and butternut squash chili (Halloween or no, it was still meatless Monday after all) and made a pan of flat cornbread that I cut out into ghost and pumpkin shapes using my cookie cutters. The meal got rave reviews (and by "rave reviews" I mean everyone going back for large second helpings).
We stopped by all our neighbors first and then made the loop through Woodland Circle where I usually go running. There weren't a whole lot of houses participating, but more than enough for a 3 year old and 2 year old. On the return approach, Penny actually said that she was tired of trick-or-treating. Renee and I laughed that we couldn't remember ever having had that problem. :) Most of Penny's candy "disappeared" to Tray and my respective offices overnight, but we left her with a solid handful of things. She got a couple little bags of skittles and reece's pieces that are nice b/c we can dole them out one skittle at a time for a week or more - although the red dye 40 in those does concern me. Her most favorite thing in the world though are Tootsie Rolls and she got a ton (since she could often pick what she wanted out of the bowls being presented). I did regift the large size ones and about half of the little ones to my college students, but she has enough of the little ones to last a while. It was a good haul, especially combined with everything she got from Haunted Sorority Hill, and the harvest festivals at Southside Baptist, First Baptist, Park Memorial Methodist, and Bush Memorial Methodist that we hit up in the week preceding - lol!