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I spent the last week or so going through old fall decorations, and Halloween costumes, photos of dress-ups past, even nick knacks fashioned like scarecrows and jack-o-lanterns. It got me to thinking of our pumpkin fiasco last year....Halloween for us is quite the affair, a huge time for our family, and one without the pressures of present buying, and holiday get togethers that are full of strings attached. There is none of that business with Halloween - granted there is far too much candy brought home afterwards - but our rule of thumb is...one holiday bests the next...so if that Halloween candy is still there when Christmas rolls around - ya just gotta dump it.
The weather has felt incredibly fall-like in recent days. Sunny, breezy, and cooler temperatures. I'm still laughing over my blog from last year and I can't wait to see how things go this year for our Halloween day of tricks and treats...and wanted to share with you some of our topsy turvey moments from last Halloween, because by God - these kids are going to smile, they're going to look cute, and THEY WILL HAVE FUN...or else!
It's amazing the difference a year can make...for instance last year at this time - we were literally still living out of the boxes from our recent (only a matter of days) move. This year, the ample time to take in the slow scene of fall going up everywhere, has been far more appreciated. We have offically been moved in and now that so many boxes are out of the way, it's a curious thing to see how one year could grow so vastly different from another.
Pumpkin Guts and Rainy Parades
Happity Happity Halloween baby babes!!! So, whereas holidays such as Christmas, and Easter typically top the favorites and the "Big ONES" for families...for us - it's Halloween. Mind you, it's followed closely by Christmas, but Halloween...that's the one. The one were the magic hasn't faded and tradition is still a part of the nightly routine. There are no discoveries about the size challenged man in the red-suit. No fallen hopes about fake fillers of stockings or giant bunnies coloring eggs to dash that magic. That's because the Great Pumpkin IS real!
This year is going to be a bit different for us, and I'm doing my best not to let it rain on my parade. This will be my first year ever without my family for our big holiday occasion. (For US it IS a holiday...that's fine if it isn't a holiday to you, just eat your Snickers and accept us) I am quite sad about that, but oooh so much looking forward to trick-or-treating in our brand new neighborhood!! Jada has decided yet again to forego the creative - and don the mask from Scream. That's because I'm a sucker...and the daddy is a sucker too. For two years in a row he went as Jason - which equated to all of...a pair of boots, a plaid shirt, and a stupid mask. BooooRING! Miss Hannah's costume last year was likely the top of the heap as far as they go - she was the most adorable little Hula Girl (complete with coconut top thank you) you have ever in your life seen. EVER. I thought this year we would go with the....mommy style. This is the style that works only for as long as your children don't dress themselves. When you can tell your daughter; "Oh yes you will be Tinkerbell, your brother is going as Peter Pan...." grossly adorable. I am aware. And it was. And now it is gone.
Now, instead of magestic "Bats in the Belfry" images on our newly carved pumpkins...Jada wants scenes of the Grim Reaper or some other such ghoulish terror. This year the babes went to a Pumpkin Patch and brought home halfa dozen pumpkins and then wound up WINNING even more. I had various sizes of pumpkins adorning our fireplace until last night. TONS of them. Small ones. Medium sized - and Jada's was the most perfecrt incredible, giant pumpkin in the entire patch. This thing is enormous and looks like it walked off of Martha Stewarts Thanksgiving centerpiece. I didn't want to even carve this monster - it felt...sacreligious. It was that pefect. I also knew the amount of guts and seeds I was going to fight. I was right. Firstly, let me say that overly large pumpkins tend to be tough. The knives must be extra sharp. Being we're still living out of boxes at the new house - a newly sharpened knife was not at my disposal.
I have always been the Queen of Pumpkin Carving. Your hardest design? Bring it on! Think you have me beat? Oooh so very wrong. Wait until you see what I can do with a mini-saw and a big orange vegetable. Or is it a fruit? They DO have seeds after all.
Not this year. I believe Hannah's brewing witch scene may be minus a nose. And possibly the head. I can't tell until it's lit.
I fought with Jada's mammoth pumpkin until after midnight last night. It's still not finished and may or may not be - viewable. There are still two more medium pumpkins to contend with but Hannah put a sticker face on one and the other is painted in spanish colors with "HOLA" on it...because apparently Hannah is in the mind set that we are a bi-lingual friendly celebrating sorta family. The little guys won't be carved and likely where they sit is where they shall remain through Thanksgiving. And how proud am I, that my child is bringing culture into our little home!
So we're living outta boxes - my dishwasher backed up under my sink - but bless it, it's Halloween...I pulled out decorations I have nearly a dozen pumpkins spread apart - hmmm one of which is still stuck in it's own guts on my white tile kitchen floor (I went to bed with pumpkin stuck in my hair...to my legs...it was wrong. No food product should do that much unless there is a happy ending involved) but I wanted things perfect. When those cutie babes in costume come to our house I have the mother load of candy just waiting. And then there is the Tropical Storm. It's been fabulous for a Halloween type atomostphere....but I don't so much look forward to dodging raindrops between doorbells.
It's been a crazy year. It really has. I like to stay optomisitic in the face of challenge but challenge turned into something else altogether round about July and has just been relentless. . And this is our Halloween. And there won't be any mom and old neighborhood - but I'm picking up KFC we're eating our own chicken, the pumpkins may or may not be acceptable - provided I can remove them from their stuck guts off of the kitchen floor - but it's Halloween. There is no Tropical Storm Re-scheduling, there is no stood - up by the family moving...it's one day out of the entire bloody year and we're going to be a happy trick-or-treat family whether they like it or not. I am now going home to bake cookies, remove the pumpkin from it's guts and no one is going to rain on this Halloween Parade!
Happity Halloween to you and yours,
XXOO A.
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