Now that I am a parent, I can finally indulge in the glory that is Halloween.
I am already plotting neat costume ideas for June, thinking about fun Halloween crafts we can make, and yummy ghoulish snacks we can share!
Psyche! I’m totally lying.
As much as I love the idea of June and I hunkered over the craft table carefully gluing 96 plastic eyeballs onto a piece of foam for an eerie eyeball wreath together, it’s the execution of such insanity that makes me real tired.
This is the time of year when parents are bombarded with seasonal craft and cooking projects galore – cupcakes festooned with witches and goblins! Intricate face painting! A costume that looks like a piece of corn on the cob! Seriously? Wha–? Do parents actually have time make this stuff? Are we all on craft Adderall?
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I spent hours making elaborate Halloween costumes for my son and he even had theme parties for his late October birthday and insisted that everyone wear a costume. He wanted different costumes for each occasion and started planning next year’s costume the day after Halloween. He is 30 now and last year I asked him which costume was his favorite. His reply…”I really can’t remember that much about them.” Draw your own conclusions.
Argh, what a heartbreaker!
Trust me, June will have a good time whether you get all crafty about it or not. My mother had to work outside the home and making costumes was not on the to do list. I wasn’t very gung-ho about Halloween, anyway, but enjoyed the costumes I had. Some she bought, and when I was older, I invented some.
The most fun thing for me about Halloween was when my little brother was old enough to be taken out. We would go to the relatives house, send him to the door to see if he could fool them, then all go in and visit and sample the candy awhile, then move on to another house. It was the low key visiting and being out for a fun evening, not the trick-or-treating, that I loved. It was fun when the family went to my school carnival together.
Somehow, a lot of Halloween stuff just wasn’t important to me. To this day, I put up a few nice fall decorations, but not a scrap for Halloween. The modern cost and quantity of Halloween decorations is hard for me to understand.