Spooktacular

In my esteemed (and totally awesome) opinion, Halloween needs to happen more than once a year, for the simple reason of the beauty of a holiday that involves FREE CANDY. I love Halloween so much that I trick or treated every year until I was 18. I wasn't one of those dumb high school kids that went around without a costume, either, I brought it. One year, I went as Hester Prynne in a Puritanical dress with a red letter A and a Cabbage Patch doll. Most people were like, Are you a... witch? but one woman said, "Hester Prynne, thou wilt be damned!" as she handed me candy, and I will forever remember her.
ANYWAY, the point is that I really like Halloween, especially now that I have kids. This year, we had three solid nights of Halloween activities, and it was so much fun!

Thursday night, I took Luke and Tommy to a Halloween party at the nursing home where my mom works. The party ended in the kids going trick or treating with the people who wanted to participate, and I know it really made some of their days seeing the kids. Also, one old woman on the Alzheimer's ward totally tried to steal Luke, which made MY day (and I maybe kind of didn't stop her and instead was all, HEY, free babysitting!).

Friday night, we went to a Halloween party at Beth's. There was SO MUCH delicious food, Rock Band, and fun times. Luke played well with the other kids, I think, except for as we were leaving, Steph's son said, "Luke ate all of my candy!" But it's probably not such a surprise that my kid would be a candy thief, is it? Luckily, I turned it into an amazing lesson called, "You don't steal candy, unless you're a mom then all candy is FAIR GAME." Then Luke said he was a mom, and I was all YEAH RIGHT, and he told me that he was a mom to his toy lawn mower and that it came out of his mouth. I was like, Yeah, no, that doesn't count, SORRY.

I was really excited to be a geisha (dress and idea from Beth, thank you) because it meant that I could finally use this red eyeshadow I've owned for four years and never had any chance to use, as well as my red lipstick. Which means that it wasn't a totally wasteful purchase.
Although thematically our costumes did not match at all, Shane and Tommy matched, and I think they were beyond cute.

Saturday, we went trick-or-treating of course. We had so many people at our house that we ended up recycling some of Luke's candy, but not before I removed all of the peanut butter cups. Oh, and I ate so much candy that I swore off candy forever... a vow which lasted all of five minutes before I stumbled across a package of Reese's pieces.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! Or if you don't celebrate, I hope you enjoyed your last weekend of October. And remember, when I become President (which is sure to happen just as soon as I'm 35, even though it appears that I'll turn 35 in 2017 which is NOT an election year. So either I'll wait a few years, or I'll organize a coup to overthrow the US government), Halloween WILL occur more than once a year.