Last year was a bit crazy with all the restrictions put into place.  I think many holidays are going to change this year, just by fear alone.  So I want to prepare people to be kind and get along when it comes to holidays. The pandemic has led us to understand things about our economy, and the medical world that needs to change.  It has also given us a new understanding of health and ideas to make sure our family is safe for the future.  We have put in place many protocols for holiday gatherings and regulations as well.  What I have enjoyed seeing is a tribute to health for Halloween and ideas to make sure our kids and family stay safe.  The joys of handing our favorite candy boxes to all the children are just wonderful.  It is great to see them light up when they chose the candy boxes and sweet treats you have laid out for them.  Last year we ended up making a pretty cool cleaning station and had candy that was all prepackaged and safe to clean.

Each family had their own protocol about what they were going to do and we saw a lot of different things happening.  But we did our stuff rather distanced and it worked well. The fact is that the statistics on rather one is better than the other are almost nonexistent.  But I think that the idea of keeping our kids from getting sick when visiting a lot of strangers or even getting the house residents sick by the visiting is a good idea. 

The distancing was a good move and at our home, we made sure to separate out buckets of candy so the kids could each be separate.  We also put spooky foot sings for them to keep their distance if so desired.  We did not force anyone into our way of doing things and well kids will be kids, but we gave the open option to do it and to make sure everyone felt comfortable doing it.  Everyone should be able to do what they want and not have laws against it.  I think if you want to wear a mask great!  If you do not, that’s fine, the person who wants to do it can! 

Safety was big for us this year and we still want all kids to be clean and healthy.  The thing is that we believed that some kids or parents were going to disinfect the candy before anyone was able to eat it.  It didn’t matter if only one person or child did this.  But what if they used bleach on the candy and then had their kids eat it.  Some containers are made of cardboard and can soak those chemicals right in.  I didn’t want anyone to even have to think about getting hurt so we decided to only use waterproof materials for our treats. 

We got bars and bags that were all air-tight and water-sealed because we wanted to ensure that no kids got harmed dur9ng this fun holiday.  People clean everything and I want all our candy to be safe and protected from people who would put poisonous things to the body on candy.  That could go so wrong and I don’t want to be apart of that. 

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