My mom is not a fan of Halloween. So, I don't have many Halloween memories as a child. I sort of remember some plastic Barbie get-up (I mean costume) one time, complete with plastic mask with the squinty little holes for eyes. No photos of that darling gear, however. The most memorable Halloween, of course, was the year I dressed up as Laura Ingalls (gee, I'm a fan!) and made my mom drive me to my teacher's house, and then home. That was it. I trick-or-treated to one house and I went home. That's all I wanted, anyway. I still have the wig my mom made - a pink bonnet with brown yarn braids. I sooooo wanted long hair as a kid (you know - like Laura!). And I never had the patience to grow it long. I loved that pink bonnet with the pretend long locks!!!
I paid no attention to Halloween as a teenager or as a young adult. I think I dressed as a 'tree' one year when I worked at WalMart in college - brown legwarmer knit pants, a sweater, and a leaf pin. Can you say: Creative! Maybe I started to care about Halloween a little more when My Man and I moved to our house, and I piled straw bales on the front porch with corn stalks flanking the sides. My husband LOVED disposing of those after the cold weather came. (HE ROCKS, btw.) Or, more likely, once I had kids I became more interested. My mom changed a little too (OK, a LOT) since the grandkids arrived. One year, she so closely resembled a (good) witch in her costume that when the twins returned to our front door from their candy expedition, they wouldn't come inside! (oops!)
(Last year she read the Kindergarteners the FABulous book Big Pumpkin while in her garb. Baby S has changed a lot, eh?)
Here's the deal: Halloween can be cute, fun, and creative. But it has a dark side that I just don't like. And that's where I draw the line. I keep my sweet black (striped) kitty inside during the month of October. I'm serious. And I keep my Halloween cute, fun, and creative. Wanna see what Baby S will be for Halloween this year??
Is that cute or what?! Yeah, we've got Queen Amidala, Luke Skywalker (VIth episode, People - if you know StarWars, you know what I mean...and if you don't, like me, actually, you'll have to ask why T will be wearing his black Karate uniform, like I did...), and Darth Vader, of course. That's as spooky as we'll be getting around here. And you all know Darth Vader turns away from The Dark Side in movie VI and stands alongside Yoda and Obi-Wan in their live forever after-life form. You all know that, right? Right? Tap-tap Is this thing on??
8 comments:
Lemme say, I love your front door. Seriously.
Also, I grew up in the house that had no Halloween. We trick or treated exactly ONCE and that was in Alaska so that meant the costume had to fit over the snowsuit. My mom is not all up in Halloween. Still isn't. But my husband has no hang ups and we carve pumpkins and dress up the dogs. He gives out candy. I hide. I have pumpkins out and fall harvest stuff, really. But I don't do spooky either.
I cannot understand why Halloween has become a national holiday. The schools celebrate it more than anything they do for Christmas and it drives me nuts. We do harvesty stuff at home...the kids do dress up and I do pass out candy. But no evil or spooky stuff. My daughter won't go near a Michael's right now. All the stuff really really upsets her. Likewise, she won't trick or treat at a house with anything creepy hanging around.
Is that really your front door? What a great pic. Now i'm jealous!
And how can you already know what everyone will be for Halloween??? Wont' they change their minds like 10 times before Halloween arrives? Please don't tell me that is just my kids.
BTW, i found you from Honest and truly :)
I felt like I was reading the story of my life...my mom NEVER did Halloween when I was growing up. Now, forget it, she's grandma and she won't miss a chance to dress up!
I love the Yoda - Cupcakes first Halloween she was Princess Lea, Curly was Yoda (the exact same one) and JT was Darth Vader...it was so cute. I can't wait to see! Oh, and I love the mantle on the previous post!
Interesting..! Thanks for sharing your Halloween memories.
We would always go trick-or-treating when we were kids. Now, I could almost care less about Halloween, but Mr. Baseball loves it. It is kind of fun to go to our church's harvest celebration and all the kids get to dress up and get candy and stuff. I still haven't decided what the redhead is going to be for Halloween. I guess I better get on that.
Take pictures of the star wars crew for posting.
You blog is beautiful...LOVE it! I look forward to reading through the archives.
Missy
I am teetering about how I feel about Halloween. We always celebrated but I am more aware of what it represents and I'm not sure I want to glorify it.
Do you recall my Halloween Party in High School? My parents even planned that huge scavenger hunt? I have a pic of us all from it somewhere. I was Debbie Gibson of all people. Maybe I won't look too hard for that picture after all.
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