Post Halloween

Since Genius Golfer didn't dress up--he barely made his way upstairs yesterday--and The Boy was too "cool" to dress up for school and is too old to go trick or treating, someone around here had to hold down the fort and show show Halloween spirit.

Groovy, huh?  I'll tell you the Afro wig was so tight it gave me a headache, but I held on and made it through the pitiful numbers of trick or treaters we had last night.  I didn't even go through a whole bag of candy.  WHAT?!  That has never happened.

Well, once I got my groovy self down, the rest of the night was far out!  Besides the wig, it was like wearing pajamas.  I'm cool with that.

Halloween Today!

Some of you asked me "Where are the other years' Halloween costumes?"

Here are the 2006 and 2007 editions. The missing years (or missing children in a costume) in yesterday's pictures meant that I either didn't make a costume that year (in preschool, The Boy was a store bought [gasp!] Fireman or they wanted to repeat a costumes from the previous year like, The Girl wore the Mermaid outfit a couple years in a row).

Bill Gates (I know, but that is what he wanted to be) and the Pirate Girl 2006

The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which The Boy has not seen in its entirety, thank you) 2007

Princess Leia with hair buns even! 2007

So, Happy Halloween today, my friends! Beware of the ghouls and goblins--and that is just for cars that pass those of you walking children to school! Be safe but have fun! It is my favorite holiday!

Lady, start that sewing machine!

It is Halloween costume season at our house. The opening bell rang on Saturday when The Kids and I went to our not-quite-local Joann's fabric store and picked up some patterns (while they were on sale) and fabric for The Girl's costume and for part of mine.

We went down thinking The Girl would be "Princess Buttercup" from The Princess Bride. I figured, if she was that, I could talk The Boy into being "The Dread Pirate Roberts". The plan didn't last past the pattern books.

Now The Girl, hoping to talk her two good girlfriends into her plan, is going as a "Forest Fairy". She thinks her two girlfriends should be a "Water Fairy" and a "Fire Fairy". Apparently Fairies are still OK to dress up as in Junior High.

The boy, meanwhile, thinks he is hilarious and wishes to be a "Nerd". Really, he just wants to wear his pants pulled up to his pits and put on some funny glasses. At least that takes him off the sewing schedule this month.

As I still get to dress up at the elementary school, I try to make something historic or from literature or a movie. I've been Martha Washington, Jane Austen, Laura Ingalls, and last year was Edna Turnblatt from Hairspray. I think I am going to go for "Robin Hood" this year. Yes, it is a cross dressing idea, but I have short hair already and the wig last year made me crazy! We shall see. I could end up as the Dread Pirate Roberts myself. I'll keep you posted and will add a photo when I'm done with everyone.

Happy Monday, everyone.