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Health & Fitness

One Bag...Just One Bag.....

The sun rose on our Halloween Candy bowl this morning and the sad sight was the few pieces that remained....and that was THE ONLY bag that we opened...<br>While the increase of Halloween "events" like the PJ Festival, Heritage Park (Mt Sinai) Halloween Party &amp; the many many others, there are great places for the kids to SAFELY have spooky fun!...BUT...gone are the days of hours of walking from house to house....Throngs of witches, ghosts, super heros, pirates, princesses, &amp; more filling the streets....Shouts of "Trick or Treat" (smell my feet, give me sometime good to eat!)&nbsp;&amp; squeals of delight when the little ones got their favorite candy as a treat....I miss the days of frenzy from the time the bus dropped the kids off after school til we managed to get the sugar filled sweeties to bed!...Transforming them into Cowboys, Ghostbusters,&nbsp;Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Dark Ninjas, Knights, Batman, Superman, Silver Surfer and many many more, ALL while they are trying to bolt out the door cause "Johnny is already out there MOM!".....Desperately trying to get them to eat protein for dinner instead of 2 Milky Ways &amp; a Kit Kat.... ..Our last run thru the condo neighborhood (more candy, less distance between doors!)....<br>It's just not the same as it used to be....and I, for one, miss it!!!

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