Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Perfect Mom Thing: Hey, I Tried


Attempting to be a "Mommy Extraordinaire" I bought one of those pre-made ginger bread haunted houses. Just a few squirts of icing and I'm supposed to look like this super mom chef who can bake. Or not.

That was a waste of fifteen dollars. I guess they don't make pre-made gingerbread houses like they used to, because the walls wouldn't stay up. I tried everything: extra icing, jellybean pillars, wood glue. Nothing worked. So we took one picture, (below), before the ghost of Big Bad Wolf blew the house down, (above). Then we ate the walls. Shortly after, when the kids went upstairs for the night, they bounced on their beds for an hour until the candy corn wore off. I had a really bad headache from the sugar. You think after 33 years of life I'd know the equation: sugar = head rush, but I still can't control myself. I'm just an older kid.


Case in point, I know what I'm going to be for Halloween, the same thing I am every year, an angel. (Leave me alone, I can pretend!) The real kids are dressing up too. Big Brother is leaning toward being a Pirate, but just informed me that another boy in his class plans to have the same costume. "A boy wearing the same costume as another boy in the SAME class is a Halloween fashion no, no, Mama." He says, pointing his finger in the air with authority. I can't wait to tell my husband that our oldest son is showing signs of becoming a male fashion reporter when he grows up.

Can you guess what the princess will be? The same thing she is every other day, "Snow White." Baby Bigfoot is going to trick or treat as a frog. I'm hoping his cuteness gets me some pure chocolate. (How pathetic am I?) Baby Bigfoot has added a little something extra to his costume. He's a frog that ROARS! NO, I'm actually not one of those parents who thinks it's cute to confuse little kids. You can blame Fisher Price for this one. His "See n' Say" toy is broken, and it's now funny enough to leave in the batteries.

The Halloween Experiment

Every Halloween, at ten minutes to midnight, I tip-toe to the back of my yard with a camera in hand, and take a bunch of pictures of the cemetery. If I'm feeling extra adventurous, I sit on top of the chain link fence to get a better view. Is this weird? NO, because it's Halloween, and since I can only trick or treat vicariously through my children, a grown girl's got to have a little fun.

Do I believe in ghosts? Um,..........only when I see them :) Seriously, when you've worked in a high school setting, nothing really comes as a surprise anymore. I definitely believe in souls, but I'm not sure souls can be visible to the living, because I'm still alive. It's just fun to conduct my little experiment, which never yields any terrifying results. Unless you count the year I got spooked sitting on the fence and FELL into the graveyard. I never climbed so fast in my life. I was more afraid of being arrested for trespassing, which would have been crazy. I might have been committed to an asylum when folks heard what this suburban, sugar-cookie baking mom was doing for fun.

--- Readers, you KNOW I'm not crazy, but just "differently motivated." Play along with me. Can you spot anything SPOOKY below? (Halloween at midnight in the graveyard next door, 2007) Stay tuned to this post after tomorrow night. I'll have another picture if I'm unlucky enough to still be awake at midnight.






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Welcome to my writer's blog, started about six years ago for fun. Over time, the writing I have posted has ranged from personal reflection, to Long Island history research, to tall tales for my own amusement, to feature articles for local newspapers. As you can see from topics listed here, I travel in many mental directions in regard to interests. Click on the tabs and labels to explore my strange mind which senses that you may be having a criss-cross day. If so, perhaps this blog will distract you. However, please note that if you tell me my blog is beautiful just to get me to advertise rhinoplasty surgery and cheap drugs from Canada in your comment, I will ask the gods to give you a tail that cannot be concealed.

Fondly,

Loren Christie

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