Phew!
We survived our Halloween night of trick or treating. Even though I was being a Halloween grouch this year by not decorating until 3 days before the big event, the girls had fun making their “big” plans with their friends of how many houses they would hit up for candy.
Of course, we now have at least 1o pounds of candy in the house and that doesn’t include the left over candy we had purchased to give away. So while the kids are away, momma plays…in the bags of chocolate!
This year I used clothes that we already had for the kids’ costumes. As my oldest said, “Mom’s being thrifty.” They always find the Halloween party catalogs early on to get ideas but then they expect me to fork over $45+ per costume, plus accessories, plus shipping. No thank you!
In the past I’ve been grateful to my mom who has sewn some beautiful costumes but I refuse to pay that kind of money on cheesy, polyester, tissue paper costumes. So this year, with just a few small purchases at the store, we created our own costumes.
My youngest was Hannah Montana, complete with long blonde wig and microphone (and all the lyrics to her CD playing in her head) and my oldest was a pirate. Considering what an argument she gave me over not buying her costume, I think she was the most comfortable of all her friends because she was in regular clothes and sneakers.
The only mistake I made was purchasing fake fingernails for my oldest. We were in the mall store Icing where she found some pretty cool skull earrings for her pirate costume and at the register, just calling her name, were some fake black nails with skulls on them (do you see the theme here?). I almost forgot to put them on Halloween night but once we did, they looked pretty darn cool!
But I forgot just how awful they are to get off your nails! Yikes! She had to soak her hands for quite awhile in nail polish remover, which of course dried her skin and left an unpleasant scent on her hands. It was fun for the night but she realized pretty quickly how impractical they were.
Lucky for me, she’s a self-proclaimed tomboy…
November 6th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
At least you eventually decorated! I don’t ever decorate and this year I didn’t even carve a pumpkin with my son.
I also waited until Monday before Halloween to find a costume for my son and that certainly didn’t work out well for me (well for him…lol).
Oh fake finger nails….LOL. Bet she’ll never be interested in them again
November 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
WOW Sounds like a great time was had. Do you have any pictures?
I just unloaded our Halloween Candy to the Elementary school. They keep a big bowl of it in the school office for guests.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Unfortunately I’m really bad with getting the pictures out of my digital camera and onto the computer
I certainly know how to do it but…you know how it goes!
I’ll try to post one tomorrow.
A friend’s elementary school donates left over candy to a local group that then sends care packages to the troops. I may have to thin out our supply and give some to her to donate!