Halloween at Home

So many of the leaves have fallen, and I am reminded of their smell and sound while walking through them in neighbors’ yards as a young child. I can still feel the excitement of leaving to go trick or treating. I remember some years it was so cold and snowy my father and father’s friends would drive us from house to house. At the end of the night, my brother and I would trade candy - he’d somehow always get all of the Reese’s peanut butter cups. I was almost always dressed up as a witch - either in a pink felt costume my mother made or dressed as one of the Sanderson sisters.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I love when the weather gets cold, I love dressing up, decorating with pumpkins. It’s the beginning of the cozy holiday season!

One of the greatest joys of coming to Saginaw was being able to move in to the same neighborhood I grew up in - and hand out candy here. Just as they did twenty years ago, every home becomes incredibly festive. Six o’clock arrives on Halloween night and the first trick or treaters come up the drive. I usually use my largest stock pot for candy with a second one on deck.

Even though our Halloween looks different this year, my home will still smell of roasted pumpkin seeds. I’ll still have had Nick help me carve pumpkins and there will be plenty of spiced cider candles lit. I’ll make some sort of witch’s brew while we watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, followed by something new this year - In Search of The Sanderson Sisters, A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover. It’s a reunion of the cast of Hocus Pocus and I’m so looking forward to it. You can buy a virtual ticket online here.

However you spend your Halloween weekend, I hope it’s just as spectacular and festive as any other year!