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This is a good question and one I'm not sure I have the right answer for. I have raised two children and I am now raising two more. That's another story in itself. When my first two were young we celebrated Halloween and I thought nothing of it. I even had spiders, ghosts, and witches hanging in my house, even though I had heard all the unchristian warnings about the day. They were young and it was fun to dress them up and take them around to friends and relatives to show off just how cute and adorable they were.

Then, as they got older I started to have different feelings. I didn't like all the ghosts and goblins. I figured that devil worshipers probably do not like or celebrate Christmas or Easter, so why should I celebrate their holiday if they weren't going to celebrate ours? And should I let my children participate in a holiday that was so rooted in paganism? I mean Christmas has Santa and Easter has a bunny, right? But they also have Jesus, Halloween doesn't. So we quit. Luckily I had a friend who had also decided not to do it anymore so we just started getting together for pizza, and games, and yes we bought them candy so that was all covered. They never had a problem with it.

We were labeled as oddballs though, even in our own Church where people thought it was so sad that our poor children didn't get to go trick or treating, or go to the Halloween Carnival at the school. Let me put your minds at ease, they survived just fine and seem to be well adjusted even though they missed out on it all.

So here we are now, fifteen or twenty years later, and we are now the guardians of almost five year old twins. They have lived with us full time since right before their second birthday. And what do I do on Halloween? I dress them up and take them out to family and just a few friends. We do not go to the Carnival and there are no ghosts or goblins, witches either, in our house. Do I feel bad about it? A twinge of guilt, yes. But they are just so darn cute and adorable. Especially being twins. The first year they were too young so we didn't. The second year they were dalmatian puppies. Last year they were Dorothy and the Cowardly lion. So adorable.

I assume that as time goes by and they get older I will probably quit again for the same reasons as I did the first year, but for now I just choose to enjoy dressing them up.

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