No Trick or Treating?!

With Halloween approaching everyone keeps asking our kids the same question "Are you excited to Trick or Treat?!" and it kills me each time my kids look at me confused, because they have no clue what that is! See, when Jason and I began talking-just as friends at the time with no intentions on being more-we discussed everything under the sun including this very subject. We were both in agreement then that Trick or Treating was amazing and our kids needed to experience it. What changed our minds? It wasn't just a little thing, it was when we attempted to take tiny kids on this big long walk for candy and realized they were done after the first house. After that we rediscussed the subject and decided it's not for us. For starters, I am huge on controlling the amount of candy my kids get and I do a really good job at making sure there is almost none in the house. This isn't because I'm an anti sugar mom, it's because I have one child with Aspergers and another with Diabetes, neither of which needed added sugar in their diets. Don't get me wrong, we have some sugar products in our house-Oreos being our favorites! However, we decided candy just isn't a big deal to us, if our kids want candy we have no issue going to the store and buying them a bag of their favorites, since they all want Dum Dums it works out well. We keep our kids extremely busy during the Halloween season so they aren't missing out on anything major. They still dress up, we have a Halloween party with our Co-op group, Brooke's best friend's birthday is Halloween and she invited all the kids to her party, we still carve pumpkins, and do everything else that is done on Halloween-minus the Trick or Treating part. I am sure in the future I will hear arguments from my kids about why they want to go out, but for now this seems to be working for us. To everyone going out this year, stay safe and have fun! Happy Halloween!