I started celebrating these obscure American holidays when the boys were little not because I believe in them (I detest the concept of trick or treating and don’t do it) but because they created the perfect distraction for the boys between swings. I think we will all agree it’s the in-between times that are the hardest to fulfil for any parent so I thought way back then why not make it fun?
So this morning as I finished my conversation to my husband my boys wandered in and said its Halloween mum are we going to dress the house? I literally threw back my head and said urgh. I thought I had allowed it to slip but it seems not.
After my initial tantrum that I had created a rod for my back, I said okay its Saturday we had nothing else planned let’s get to it. I climbed into the loft pulled out the jack-o-lanterns, the fake webs that I had kept from previous years and threw around some candles in the dining room and viola Halloween is set.
I dress the dining room only I am not crazy it’s me that dresses and undresses and this year it’s the quickest ever. I have just spookily dressed the dining room in half an hour and the most effort was cutting out of the black bats and spray painting an orange tree branch black and dressing it with plastic skeletons. You can see my previous posts here, here, here and here. We will do the usual Halloween desert fest {the whole point} after dinner so I will grab some jelly snakes, and cupcakes and spider them up but that’s the limit this year in terms of ghoulish feasts I am tuckered.
The boys will do some Halloween craft and we will be however dressing up to watch a whole bunch of Halloween cartoons this afternoon and tonight. And now that the house is dressed it is fun. I am officially in the ‘spirit’ it also is a little signal that Christmas is on its way which is nice.
I have rounded up some pin-worthy pin’s over on Pinterest in case you want to get in the ‘spirit’..I know so bad is the pun.
Whatever you do happy Halloween.
xDeb
