^{Posted by: Joe_LoCicero}

You may have waited until now to carve your pumpkin for Halloween night (so that it doesn't get all icky and oozy). Or perhaps, you've decided to make pumpkin pie from scratch this Thanksgiving with some sugar pumpkins. Either way, a treat awaits you and your family in the form of roasted pumpkin seeds

So many people don't take advantage of this crunchy goodness, but adults -- and surprisingly, so many kids -- love snacking on them. Plus, they're a snap to make.

First, scrape out the pumpkin's "innards," the pulp and seeds inside the pumpkin. I know this can seem to be a stringy, slimy task, but inexpensive "scrapers" have been increasingly easier to find, and make the scraping go by much faster. Plus, the plastic scrapers so widely available are usually a good size for little hands and, with adult supervision, can provide a good kid activity, too.

We've been using the Martha Stewart Collection Pumpkin Carving Kit "for jazzing up your jack-o'-lanterns,"… Read More

^{Posted by: BuckeyeChristy}
Tonight was our city's trick or treat, and this was Cordy's third time going door to door. Her first year, she wasn't walking yet, and so we put her in the stroller and spent a lot of the time meeting new neighbors. Last year, she would go up to each house and let people put candy in her pumpkin, but she didn't really understand what was going on. This year, though, she understood the excitement of Halloween and spent the past… Read More

^{Posted by: DrMommyKC}

Let's face it. Halloween is the beginning of the holiday feasting that leads to serious weight gain for many people.

Even before Halloween, I started breaking into the fun-size candy packages, taking a few to work everyday for that hunger/boredom pick-me-up, in the form of a yummy snack-sized piece of chocolate goodness. I'm not a crazy chocolate fan or anything, but if it's around, you can be pretty sure I'll want to eat it. The so-called seafood diet.

Now, at the… Read More

^{Posted by: ShortOrderMom}

Even though Trick-or-Treat is usually the highlight of our Halloween festivities, it falls on a night other than Halloween in our city, so the actual holiday is often times overlooked. I wanted things to be a little different today, so I took our 'plain Jane' dinner menu, added some new titles to our dishes, created a cute menu to print out and a more interesting meal suddenly took the place of hot dogs and fries.

Hot dogs became 'Frank-enstein-furters' and… Read More

^{Posted by: CallMeMama}

Last Friday night was the annual Halloween Boo Bash at the Cheese's school. Unfortunately, the Golfer had to be out of town that night. So that meant that I would be navigating the Boo Bash with a blue Clone Trooper and a Dragon...all by myself.

We got there when it started to try to avoid the crowds and the chaos. Over 900 kids attend the Cheese's school. Add in the adults and siblings and you are talking about one huge… Read More

^{Posted by: ShortOrderMom}

This year's Trick-or-Treat night in our city turned out to be a real dud. It was raining and cold and since our city wouldn't postpone the festivities, it was get wet, or don't go. We opted not to go since the baby had recently had a fever of 102 and we were short a teen to help watch her while I took the other kids out.

We decided not to let the whole night be a total bust and picked… Read More