Boo

~ Laura

I just came from K-Mart where I had to buy sweatpants to go under Jonah’s Gladiator costume and two more bags of cheap candy. We keep eating them. Damn those tiny Snickers.

We entering the high holidays of Halloween — three days of parties. If my kids tolerate their costumes for longer than five minutes, I’ll be surprised.

There’s a ragamuffin parade tonight where all the residents of the town march through the dark from the fire house to the middle school where they hand out donuts and cider. The town walk in the dark and in silence creeped me out last year. I was sure that at the end of the walk someone going to get stoned to death.

Then lots more festivities until Monday night when we’ll wade through the leaves and pound on doors. Give us candy! It’s a good day.

What are you doing for Halloween?

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5 thoughts on “Boo”

  1. Yes, we are all out of Halloween candy already, too! Payday’s are my favorite. We’re doing a local Halloween fair, hopefully it won’t rain. The kids get wiped out with all of the festivities!

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  2. We went to Zoo Boo this afternoon and did some trick or treating there (and tested out how scary costumes are this year: no tears, which was good, but my daughter wanted me to carry her around the whole time). Monday we’ll go to a friend’s house and trick or treat and hang out there. Nothing too exciting since at 3, my kid is still not too thrilled about costumes. But very excited about the candy.

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  3. The local kids know better than to trick-or-treat at the faculty houses (we’re all in our own little ghetto, since the college owns the houses).
    So the focus of the holiday is the faculty costume party tonight. I’m going as my blogroll, which entails spending a sunny saturday in the office, printing out the first page of a whole bunch of blogs (yours included) and constructing a ballgown with them.
    I’m taking bets on how long it will take me to scale back my ambitions from big-skirted ballgown to knee-length gunnysack.

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  4. Lyra has an adorable little cow costume. Lee is going to come home from work early to man the door while she and I go ring doorbells. I think she will enjoy this very much, but I am dreading the day after Halloween, when I suspect she will wonder very much why it was OK yesterday to go house to house ringing doorbells, but it is not OK today.

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  5. Megan is Miss America, Caitlyn is the Statue of Liberty, and Allison has this adorable tiger costume. We’ve already trotted them out for some school stuff this past week. Today, we went driving out into the country to visit a pumpkin farm, then stopped by another small town which happened to be having a wonderful Halloween parade (and a bunch of sales). Here in Macomb, we’ve been informed that we should expect trick-or-treaters both Sunday and Monday night. And it seems like about every third house has some sort of decoration up, some of them quite extensive. After years in the South, where with few exceptions we never saw much enthusiasm for Halloween beyond the basics, here in the Midwest a lot of people seem totally enthused for the holiday: parties and haunted houses and corn mazes and the whole nine yeards. Who knew? Anyway, we love it. I dig Halloween.

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