I love Halloween. I had so much fun when my kids were young, making costumes for them and me. I made a witchy dress from black satin, and a hat to go with it. I had a scraggly gray wig and used green stage makeup to color my face. Eyebrow pencil blacked out a few teeth and using the stage makeup again, made hairy warts on my nose. Every year I dressed as the Wicked Witch and appeared at the local school, scratching on the classroom windows to get the kids attention, and handing out candy when they let me in. I loved it, although it embarrassed my son who didn't want anyone to know it was his Mother, LOL. I wore the same dress to welcome trick or treaters and made elaborate decorations for the house and the front porch including spooky music playing as the kids walked up to the door. Even after my kids and even grandkids were too old to join in, I continued to decorate and welcome the neighborhood kids. Some years we have several hundred kids come to the door, other years not so many. But now the young kids in our neighborhood have grown up. No more ohhing and ahhing over their costumes and trying to guess who was who. The last few years as more parents find an alternative to trick or treating, we've seen a lot of older kids who don't live around here. It's not that I mind them, I think I'm just tired, LOL. So for the first time ever, I won't be doing much for halloween. No dressing up, just a couple of token items on the front porch and only one item on the hall server that even suggests halloween.
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