Spear a Spooky Halloween Kabob

Think outside the box for your Halloween gathering. Treat your guests to some healthy treats and spear a kabob!

Give your Halloween party guests a break from the sweet stuff. Serve up these savory skewers threaded with string cheese, olives and pepperoni.

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/spooky-halloween-skewers-156679.aspx

Peeps like fruit kabobs

Monster Fruit Kabobs

And some other fun and healthy treats

https://www.cleanandscentsible.com/heathy-halloween-food-ideas/

Many years ago one of my co-workers gave me a beautiful poetry book called "Caroline Kennedy A Family of Poems My Favorite Poetry for Children." 

The book is such a treasure that over the years I have given copies to friends and family members. Caroline is quite a gifted writer who has created this anthology of more than 100 poems cherished by her own family over the years. She has divided the book into different sections and written an introduction for each part. I was intrigued by the section: Seasons where she included an original poem by her mother Jacqueline Bouvier. Caroline wrote that she always liked her mother's poem Thoughts because it captures the feeling of sitting in school daydreaming about a life of adventure. I thought I'd share the poem since it seems rather fitting for this time of the year.

Thoughts

I love the Autumn

And yet I cannot say

All the thoughts and things

That make me feel this way.

I love walking on the angry shore,

To watch the angry sea;

Where summer people were before,

But now there's only me.

I love wood fires at night

That have a ruddy glow.

I stare at the flames

And think of long ago.

I love the feeling down inside me

That says to run away

To come and be a gypsy

And laugh the gypsy way.

The tangy taste of apples,

The snowy mist at morn,

The wanderlust inside you

When you hear the huntsman's horn.

Nostalgia-that's the Autumn,

Dreaming through September

Just a million lovely things

I will always remember.

by Jacqueline Bouvier

Autumn on the Mississippi (Minneapolis, Minnesota)