Three more days!

Wow! Hard to believe that Halloween is just about knocking on my door once again. It's been a rough month here but I have managed to get costumes for my kids ready but alas...despite my plans for making my costume...I was unable to get what I needed to create it. *sigh* Ah well! Perhaps I can spend the next year getting it ready. *fingers crossed*
But since I love dressing up I will have to think of something that I will be able to throw together between now and then. *scratches head and ponders*
The forecast has called for showers but not enough to discourage the trick-or-treaters this year. They say we should only get 1 mm of rain. If so then hopefully by the time the darkness has decended upon our fair city the skies will be clear.
My youngest is going as a pink poodle, my daughter will be Hannah Montana so I will have to get her hair ready the night before. Her hair is long and blonde so I don't have to get her a wig. :D My son is wearing a black robe with a skull mask and carrying a double-bladed axe.
For the first time, their school is allowing the kids to dress up and have a little party in the afternoon on Friday. Usually they only let the kindergardeners dress up. The condition is of course that they can't have any gore or weapons as part of their costumes...no violence so my son will have to keep his axe at home. But on Halloween night of course is a different story.
Friday or Saturday we will be carving our four pumpkins and roasting the seeds. Last year we tried roasting the seeds from the white pumpkin and they were terrible. So never again will I roast the seeds from a white pumpkin but we will still carve them. :D I also have several pages printed out of colouring pages and puzzles that the kids can do and we will be watching some Halloween DVD's that are appropriate for the young ones.

Halloween wrap up.

With Halloween now over, it's time to put all the decorations away. Last weekend I put just about everything in boxes. I keep the boxes out for a week because I know that as I go about my daily routine I will find more Halloween decorations and stuff that I missed. Of course I realized that I had my Halloween curtains up in the bathroom. So I will have to take those down today and put away the last box.

Since Halloween is over I won't be posting as much on this blog...perhaps once a month or so. But with Christmas coming up I will be posting on my Christmas blog mostly now. I hope you all had a great Halloween! I'll probably be posting more on this blog at the end of August.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween. Last night we carved pumpkins. The two older children did each of their own and I did one. I also roasted the pumpkin seeds...though I think I'll leave out the seeds if we get a white pumpkin. They don't taste as good as the seeds from the orange ones. The morning I woke to hear the older 2 kids playing in one of their rooms. They were too excited since is was now finally Halloween.
In a flash we busied around the house getting ready for school. I packed their lunches, made them breakfast, packed their backpacks since they needed their swimsuits. The afternoon they will be going swimming while the morning, the grade 6's are putting on a penny carnival. You can get in by giving pennies or some food for the food bank. They also get to have a treat that they are selling so I made sure they had some pocket change so they could get one.
Last night we had them try their costumes. The youngest was in a foul mood and did not like it when I tried to put on her Halloween costume. So I decided that today if she still didn't want to wear it I have a back up plan...she can wear my older daughter's lady bug costume that she wore years ago. Meg seems to hate the witch's costume but didn't mind wearing the bug's costume. So...we shall see which of the two she will choose to wear this evening.

One more day!

Halloween is tomorrow! The kids are excited and can't wait to try on their costumes. My son wants to be a fisherman. Just have to dig out is fisherman's hat. My older daughter is of course snow white. She likes being any of the princesses...she's a princess nut! LOL! Helps me when I need to think of what to get her for a gift whether birthday or Christmas. The younger daughter is only 2 and she will be a cute little witch. We will just have her go around the block then come home to stay with me to help hand out candy while their dad takes the 2 older ones out for trick-or-treating.

Today when the kids come home from school, we will be carving out our pumpkins. We have a white one and 2 orange ones. That is the least amount we have ever had. Usually we carve anywhere from 4-7 pumpkins. Talk about alot of pumpkin seeds to roast! LOL! I'm just hoping and praying that the weather will be warm enough for them. But as usual here in Canada when it is cold, we just put the costume over their winter coats/snowsuits.

Halloween Definitions

Here are some cute Halloween definitions :)

* Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.
* Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer.
* Full moon: What your repairman reveals when he bends over to fix your fridge.
* Goblin: How you eat the snickers bars you got for Halloween.
* Boogieman: Guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose.
* Invisible Man: What a guy becomes when there's housework to be done. Also, see Mr.Hyde.
* Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.
* Jack the Ripper: What Jack does to his lottery tickets after losing each week.
* Mummy: Who kisses the boo-boo after you scrape your knee.
* Pumpkin Patch: What a pumpkin wears when trying to quit smoking.
* Skeleton: Any supermodel.
* Vampire Bat: What Dracula hits a baseball with.
* Zombie: What you look like before that first cup of morning coffee.

Black and White Halloween Ideas

If you decide to go for a kind of theme for Halloween...here is one theme you might think about doing...black and white!

http://www.365halloween.com/black-white-costume-ideas

http://www.countryhome.com/projects/holiday/blackmagic_1.html

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/theme_parties/25906

Decorating

I couldn't wait. I usually start decorating in a week or two but this past weekend I started to put up some decorations for Fall/Halloween. The kids don't mind as they are excited and can't wait for Halloween to arrive. I will do most of the decorating. The window clings will go on almost last. The last ones are the purple and orange lights that my dh will put up around the living/dining room for me since he is much taller and can reach easily up where the ceiling and wall meet. :)

I also started a little earlier for the Halloween countdown than planned. So...for the Pre-Halloween countdown...I wrote down all the rooms I will be working on during the countdown, then went around to each room and wrote down what needed to be done in each room. The room that will be the hardest is the master bedroom. It seems the family like to dump things in my room so now I will have to go through everything and try to find a place for it all.

When to start...

I was going through my Halloween binder today and decided to see when the Halloween countdown will start. I see that people will be starting on September 21st this year for the six weeks but I will have to start a week earlier...which is September 14th because I have an extra week in there do do...it's the Pre-Halloween Countdown assignments. I saw at the Dollarama store they are starting to bring out the Halloween decorations. So next month I'll be taking a trip there. I figure they should be done putting out all of them by then.