Halloween in the year 2008 is a marathon.
9:00 Cook various icky foods for the touchy feely boxes for G's class party (leeks, mushrooms, pasta and cornstarch, and icky wilted carrots for guts, ears, brains and fingers respectively)
11:00 Go get beef for chili (our halloween dinner tradition), and twine for K's costume (something to hold up his viking sheet)
11:40 pick up girls for lunch and costume dressing
12:30 back to school for halloween costume parade and class parties
3:15 pick up girls take to one of my dearest friends for an annual halloween party
4:00 get out the candy!
4:30 pick up the girls and wait for K to come up and take the girls trick-or-treating
5:30 finally they're gone!, a glass of wine and manning the door for trick-or-treaters (which is slow at our house)
I just have to make the chili and we have to decide if we have the energy to go down to a neighbor who had a halloween post trick or treating get-together every year. We'll have to see how Cleopatra and Arwen (G and A respectively) do.
What made this year a little different was COSTUMES! G and A have been asking that K and I get dressed up on halloween, and it's easy for parents to say no. But this year, I bought a costume. I bought a "midnight siren"costume (somewhere between a witch and a vampire) and a black wig. And I wore it to SCHOOL...for the parade and party. Which is kind of interesting, because few parents dress up. In the past, I might have felt silly, or over the top or somehow "wrong", but this year I said what the heck (or something like that, perhaps an expletive was involved), and got dressed up. Stick out? Who me? It was really for the girls, and for me. It's fun (and somewhat unusual) for grown-ups to let down their guard and go with the flow. Especially at school, with all of the other moms there (at least that's how it is for me, school is one of the most constrained environments for me).
I'm excited to have embraced the day. To be the parent who dressed up. Yeay for me.
Happy Halloweeeeeeeeen! Now for a second glass of wine.
1 comment:
I'm glad to hear I am not the only parent that dressed up and went to their child(ren)'s school that way. I do it every year, pretty much. The kids love it and I could give a crap about what others think (at this point in my life). It IS fun! Embracing life...
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