For many moms, Halloween is a major struggle and only becomes a holiday that when it's over. From tantrums over costumes to the lack of desire to wander around at night when you're tired--it certainly isn't easy on some moms.

I asked some moms to share it with me - the good, the bad and the downright spooky of Halloween. Here's some responses from seven moms who have all put their Halloween-related struggles aside in the name of ensuring their child has a great holiday, because that's just how great moms are!

"There's nothing more fun than Halloween... the stress of costumes when you're young, drunken parties when they're older, dog barking like a maniac with every trick or treater, $50 for candy to give ungrateful brats who have no manners and b**** about the type of candy you're giving them...the only thing I miss is walking the neighborhood with friends and a flask full of wine as our kids collected their loot! This year it's dinner OUT and lights OFF!"

"I do like it when kids are young and innocent and costumes are not sexy, however head into any store now and even costumes for young girls have a sexual theme."

"I love the excitement they have about picking out a new costume each year! I love the different events we do in our neighborhood. I also love being able to dress up as an adult still! I have a costume party tomorrow night actually. I don't love the anxiousness I have with crazy people out at night and how every year there is more to worry about, though."

"As a teacher, it can be exhausting and tough to manage both the day of Halloween (kids can't sit still with excitement and are off the walls) and the day after (kids half asleep)! I would love to be able to designate the last Thursday or Friday of the month for Halloween! That should be done!"

"Don't forget to include trying not to buy the candy too early because then you eat it and have to buy it again, or when you buy what you don't like only to find out you are so desperate and eat it anyways. I also hate that kids never pick the costume you want for them or it is too much work creating one (like a 'cleaner' version of Harley Quinn from the Suicide Squad but for a tween - who has never seen the movie but is so set on this for her costume)."

So this is what I have to work with...next year you're going as a ghost in a sheet!

"Halloween was always an exciting time for me as a child. Fun to be out with your friends and plan out what you were going to dress up as. But not so much fun as a mom, more worries about safety- not to mention a huge expense as well as the candy that's going to rot the kid's teeth and give tummy aches, having to police every piece of the three pounds of candy that was collected. The only bright side to Halloween these days, along with giving your Fitbit a good workout, is to be able to spend it with good friends and to keep your kids enjoying it for the same reasons you did."

"I love Halloween--really, I do. As someone who is chronically cold and loves to be in for the night at 5 p.m. nothing sounds better than wandering my neighborhood aimlessly in the dark and freezing cold temperatures. I always try to be out the door with the kids earlier rather than later (so we can be done earlier) but that never works as one kid must always retaliate against wearing layers--which we agreed on weeks ago when we actually bought the costume."

"Think about what you spend time doing on Halloween...you go out at night and walk around your neighborhood so your child can get candy from strangers. This literally goes against everything we teach them. Isn't one of the first major safety lessons you ever teach your kid: never take candy from strangers?! From now on I'm calling Halloween 'Safety Demonstration Night' where I'll tell my kids I am teaching them exactly what not to do through modeling."

Essentially, I've been teaching my kids it's only okay to take candy from strangers when in costume...