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What is this blog about? Well, it's a general blog, but it is also a very specific blog. If you get that
reference, you get a gold star! I have been a public relations professional and writer of press
releases for more than 20 years—primarily in the booze biz. I decided to do some writing for
fun and embrace the humor that gets me through most days. Hopefully it will make you
chuckle—or at least smile. I’m a certified crazy magnet, and more than a little nutty myself, so
buckle up. Also, I have two vices—profanity and red wine/whiskey. You’ve been warned.
It should also be noted, that I’m a HUGE Bob & Sheri fan. I’ve been a listener for more than 20
years. This opportunity is a dream come true and it may have made me cry. That being said, I
cry at everything.
If you are into booze, dogs, food and/or knitting, hit me up on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter
(although I’m terrible at Twitter and it scares me) @kyspiritsgal. You can also find all my
previous blog posts at www.kyspiritsgal.com.

I love Halloween. All of it. Well, most of it. I don’t do haunted houses. Paying to be scared is bullshit. Anyway, Halloween is just a fun holiday. It may actually be one of my favorite aspects of being a parent. Once I had a kid, I went all in on Halloween.

Now, I did not have 30-foot skeletons in my yard, but I did decorate, spend way too much money on my kid’s costume and dressed up to go trick-or-treating with her. I loved every second of it. I have been a witch multiple times, a ghost, and a cowboy. Once my mom went trick-or-treating with us dressed as a bumble bee. That was epic.

Other traditions include carving pumpkins and roasting the seeds every year while momma drank her special “pumpkin juice.”

We trick-or-treat in the cold and the rain as well as some beautiful fall evenings. I loved each one, although I could have lived without cold rain.

Trick-or-treating was so different with my daughter than it was when I was a kid. For starters, we have always lived in a great neighborhood for trick-or-treating. I grew up in a very rural part of Ohio. There was no walking around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. We had to pile in the ole wood-paneled station wagon and drive around the county. It was an epic endeavor that lasted for hours.

Despite the time commitment, the rewards were pretty great. A lot of these places didn’t get many trick-or-treaters so they handed out bags of candy. Oftentimes we managed the holy grail of trick-or-treating—full-size candy bars! My dad liked to steal those, but I got good at hiding them.

The quality of the candy was also excellent. Sure, you got the occasional Smarties or Swedish Fish crap, but I recall lots of Reese’s Cups in my plastic pumpkin. I had to hide those from my mom. That woman is like a bloodhound for a Reese’s Cup.

Some of my best childhood memories are Halloween as a kid. My favorite was when my sister and I dressed up as clowns in homemade costumes made by my grandmother. We were not scary clowns. We were adorable if I do say so myself.

Along with trick-or-treating, I love a fall festival. My elementary school had the absolute best Halloween Carnival. It was my favorite day of the year—I think I loved it more than Christmas. There were games, a costume contest, bobbing for apples—everything! I looked forward to it all year.

My daughter also had some good fall festival action when she was little. She was the queen of the cakewalk. I looked forward to hers almost as I did as my own as a kid. Sometimes on the day of her festival, I would dress up in costume to pick her up from school. She loved it when I did that. I was the coolest mom.

Halloween is just a good time. The pressure is low and the fun reward is high. My daughter is 18 now, but she still loves Halloween and so do I. This is one holiday I hope we never lose our enthusiasm to celebrate—even if it is to just hand out candy to the next generation of little goblins.

What is this blog about? Well, it's a general blog, but it is also a very specific blog. If you get that reference, you get a gold star! I have been a public relations professional and writer of press releases for more than 20 years—primarily in the booze biz. I decided to do some writing for fun and embrace the humor that gets me through most days. Hopefully it will make you chuckle—or at least smile. I’m a certified crazy magnet, and more than a little nutty myself, so buckle up. Also, I have two vices—profanity and red wine/whiskey. You’ve been warned. It should also be noted, that I’m a HUGE Bob & Sheri fan. I’ve been a listener for more than 20 years. This opportunity is a dream come true and it may have made me cry. That being said, I cry at everything. If you are into booze, dogs, food and/or knitting, hit me up on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter (although I’m terrible at Twitter and it scares me) @kyspiritsgal. You can also find all my previous blog posts at www.kyspiritsgal.com.

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