Thursday, November 5, 2009

The end of October

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I have pondered this holiday on occassion. There are some obvious counterintuities about celebrating this pagan holiday. However, I have never dressed up on ventures for candy in order to display pagan beliefs. A lot of holidays have deviated from their original intent, and Halloween's evolvement is a fortunate one. I don't like the gory-scary-naughty-unpleasantries that some have come to associate with this time of year, but it's fun to have a night where we can dress up and 'play pretend' for a while. That's worth celebrating, right?

So here are 4 of my favorite things about Halloween (in no particular order):

1. Cute costumed kids. Isn't that the best part? This year Ls was a dragon, and NiNa a flamingo. CUTE.

2. Pumpkin carving. This is a favorite tradition of ours.

3. Decorating. We hang finger puppet monsters from the ceiling, put home made grocery bag ghosts all over the porch, we've got a bat mobile (a bunch of bats on a mobile I made. Get it? Ha, I know). I always rig the door so when you open it a bat comes down in your face, and this year I rigged a kitchen cupboard so a spider did the same.

4. I used to love scaring people. Not little kids, mind you. Growing up, it was a frequent occurence to hear, "BOO!" followed by, "AAAAIIEEEEE!" We'd all laugh and run to where the scream came from to find out what happened.

Ah, wonderful Halloween. And next comes Veteran's Day, and then Thanksgiving. What a great time of year!

2 comments:

Becca said...

Hi K! I like your blogging! When you can post photos of the costumes! I'd love to see you all dressed up! Did you dress up too this year?
Bec

Christine Merrill said...

Ha ha, I was reading this remembering some of our times scaring people - notably, the time we dressed up like a scarecrow and sat on your front porch to scare people...but it was so cold, hardly anyone came by...or the time we were making a scary sounds tape on Old Main, and that guy came running up to save us after we screamed :) Ok, that one wasn't quite what we had in mind...

Happy (late) Halloween!!