Happy Halloween!
by | Posted in Nothing To Do With Romance Novels 4 Comments »Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s all about the COSTUMES. Last year I pulled together a group of friends to go as characters from Alice in Wonderland. After making five of the costumes, I succumbed to the flu and had to stay home. This year is J’s first Halloween. Such an auspicious event has to be perfect. What is the perfect costume for an infant? Something unique, but recognizable. Something creative, but relatively easy since I have, oh, zero time to make it. Something literary, since we love us some books. Should we go as a set, with the whole family involved? Originally we had planned to make Ryan the Man in the Yellow Hat and the baby would be George the Monkey, but that didn’t leave me any character. Finally I whittled it down to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Ryan and I would wear pictures of all the food the caterpillar eats. I finally decided on Hedwig, Harry Potter’s snowy owl. Ryan and I are Harry and Ginny, but I didn’t quite finish our costumes or get around to dying my hair orange. She makes the cutest snowy owl you ever did see. Today we are going to the Pumpkin Bash at the zoo and trick or treating at the merchants event in our little neighborhood. Maybe tonight I’ll have a free moment to carve a pumpkin.
How do you celebrate Halloween? What are you, or your kids, dressing as? What’s your favorite type of Halloween candy?
November 1st, 2010 at 3:14 am
I love Halloween too! This year I went as a pirate and I’ve gotta say, it was probably the best costume I’ve ever had. I hadn’t planned to go as one but ended up using part of an old costume combined with clothes (long jacket, boots, etc.) I already owned. And candy? Anything chocolate rocks!
November 3rd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Your costumes sound great!!! No pictures? I’d love to see baby Hedwig!
I didn’t dress up this year. I made powerpuff girl costumes for my 11 year old and her two friends. They were cute. My 15 year old dressed up as a black cat. Easy peasy.
My favorite Halloween candy is Take5 bars. Mmmm. The girls didn’t get ONE of those in all their loot. Better for my waistline, I suppose. I also like Reese’s peanut butter cups, Reeses’ pieces or Twix bars.
November 3rd, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Katie – Pirates are awesome. We discussed having J be a pirate and me be a parrot.
Christine – What’s in a Take5 bar? There is a picture on facebook. I think my favorite halloween candy is plain m&ms. Does that make me boring?
November 15th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Saw the pics on facebook! Super adorable costumes!
A Take 5 is a candy bar made of pretzel, peanut butter and a but of caramel, I think, all covered with chocolate. I sure could go for one right now…