As a toddler, my son was slow to warm up to just about everything. Halloween was no exception. He didn’t like wearing a costume or the attention that costume-wearing brought (who doesn’t love a two-year-old dressed like a rooster?). But by age three, he had his first epiphany: Halloween is all about candy!  I recall his declaration, as if the first kid to ever figure it out, “Mom, all you have to do is put on a costume and they give you candy!”  Continue reading →