Ding dong. Trick or Treat!

Kendra Wozniak

The moment every child has been waiting for is finally here.
He or she has been waiting all week for this night.

Carving pumpkins. Going to haunted houses and corn mazes. Telling ghost stories. Raking leaves. Baking pumpkin seeds. Making arts and crafts in school. All the fun things during this special holiday. Each one of these events leading up to the climax: Halloween night.

When I was little, I loved the dressing up part of Halloween. And do not forget the candy of course. But each year I was extremely excited to be something I have never been before. And the best part is  no one could make fun of you for wearing that costume. Like a pumpkin or a princess or a lady bug or a cat. All the little girl costumes that you could think of, I wanted to be. It was the hardest decision for me to choose what to be on the night of Halloween. Sometimes, when I could not choose my outfit, I would wear one costume to school on the day of Halloween and a different outfit that night because I could not choose.

And now for the best part, the candy. On Halloween night, my sister and I would always be the first ones to start Trick or Treating in my neighborhood. My brother was always with my parents, so it was my sister and I that would run around and get the most candy, while my brother would have to walk with my parents to each house.

My sister and I would run through yards and down driveways and up stairs to almost all the houses in my neighborhood. Trick or Treat. Trick or Treat. Trick or Treat. Candy. Candy. Candy. That was how the night went. My sister and I used to use those little plastic pumpkin buckets, but we realized that those buckets could never fit enough candy. So we moved to the next level, the pillow cases. And boy did we get so much candy in those pillow cases.

When we would get home from a long night of Trick or Treating, my sister and brother and I would dump our candy out of our pillow cases. Mountains of candy surrounded my house. We would then make trades and sort our candy, and eating some candy too, of course.

Halloween was my favorite holiday when I was little, but then again I said that for each holiday as a new one approached.

Ding dong. Trick or Treat. A long night ahead passing out candy at the Wozniak house on this Halloween night.