Every Halloween I look forward to hanging out with my family, eating the traditional chili-dogs, and giving out candy to all the cute little trick-or-treaters. This year, my mom and I decorated the front porch with orange lights, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins, scarecrows, cats, skeletons… you name it, we had it. It was lookin’ spppooookkkyyyy. Kinda. Most of the comments we got were about how beautiful my mom’s flower bed looked in the front yard, but hey… it was a SCARY flower bed.

Here is a picture of Romeo awaiting the trick-or-treaters.

A couple Halloween’s ago, I was introduced to a new holiday treat that I thought would be fun to share with you, especially since all the halloween candy is now on sale! It’s really simple. All you do is buy a bag of candycorn (stay with me, I don’t like candycorn by itself either…), buy a jar of peanuts, and mix them together in a bowl. Then comes the hard part… you have to eat them at the SAME TIME. Yes, I know, this takes coordination to hold peanuts and candycorn in your hand and pop them in your mouth all at once, but it IS possible! When you taste the two otherwise less-than-desirable foods together, you get a Homemade Payday. Yes, I know I could just buy a bunch of Paydays at the store… but that’s not celebrating the Halloween spooky-ness without the candycorn. So next Halloween, try the little concoction and you will find it to be a surprisingly tasty treat!