The spooks were out tonight.

Trick Or Treat.

I am such a sucker. With everyone around us sick with the swine flu, I thought I had out smart my kids, and it would have worked IF I wasn't such a softy.

See, I was going to take the kids to the store, allowing them to each pick out a bag of candy IF they didn't go trick or treating due to all the people in the neighborhood.

Surprisingly, the kids agreed and I thought I was so tricky.

Well, I think that the pictures tell another story...hence why I am a sucker.

As the evening was growing darker, I started to feel a bit guilty, as if I was going to take away a happy childhood memory for the kids. I wouldn't want to scar them for life.

5:00 comes and the kids and I have a talk; pretty much goes like this.

Me: "Kids come here"

Kids come in a runnin': "What?" (echoing 4 different times)

Me: "Get your costumes on and don't ask why, just do it, if you know what's good for you."

Kids run aways cheering.

Me: "Only a few houses and we get to pick where you go and for how long" (which was just a waste of breath, because they didn't hear, they were all out of the room faster then I could even get the words out.)

...And the rest of the night went nothing as planed.

They were out too long, got way too much candy, ran wild, and had the best night ever in their minds.

Hey, isn't that what Halloween is all about.

***I have to add, I even had a few people ask the girls if they were the "Swine Flu" which I had to laugh about. I didn't even think about that. Silly Swine Flu.***