(sorry no pictures today! will post some soon)
It would make sense if today I wrote a bit about
Halloween at my house. Well, I can say
that Halloween has never been a holiday of preference for me. I don’t care to dress up, and I especially
don’t care for all the hoopla that seems to go along with the holiday. I quit trick-or-treating when I was 12 or 13—I
think I was an evil queen or something that year. I didn’t understand the point of going house
to house begging for candy while dressed in costume. It was just something you did. I guess I felt it was another way to make sure
I could relate to my friends.
The allure to dressing up and begging for candy seemed to
dissipate as I got older, so the pressure wore off. But when I got to college it all started up again. Now, instead of dressing up for candy, the
majority of my age group dressed up to get drunk. One more reason for me not to care for the
holiday.
I recently learned my mom wanted to avoid all the
Halloween stuff from the get-go. She,
too, didn’t see the point in dressing up and begging for candy, especially from strangers. But somehow the pressure got to her (I’m sure
she’d have a better explanation as to why she decided to involve us girls in
the dress-up game) and we started the tradition of donning costumes once a year. I must say, those pictures are darn
cute! One year my middle sister and I
were dressed as two little apples.
Another, she and I dressed as a bunny and kitty-cat, and my youngest
sister had the cutest dinosaur costume EVER!
So why am I so anti-Halloween?
After all, the kids dressing up is adorable.
Next fall there will be pressure to dress our new little
munchkin as something. Will we
cave? Oh, I’m sure we will. It will be so cute!! But that feels like such a shallow reason to
participate.
There is one thing I do like about Halloween: carving
pumpkins. I have such fond memories of
my dad cutting the tops off our pumpkins and helping us scoop out the pumpkin
slime. After drawing a funny, scary or
cute face on the pumpkins, mom and dad would help us carve them out (we used
real knives, not those kid-friendly carving kits). The absolute best part was when we were all
finished. Mom would position the candles
inside our pumpkins, and we’d turn out the lights. Oh, I just loved how cool it was to see the glowing,
toothy smiles!
So, I guess Halloween might not be the stupidest (a.k.a. pointless)
holiday out there. It is another day for
family to spend quality time together, making memories through timeless
tradition. We might not have the ability to spend quality time with friends and family this year, but next fall we will have our
family of carved pumpkins lit up on the front porch. Our little one dressed
as some adorable animal, vegetable or mineral. J
We might have a few people over to enjoy
some hot soup and apple cider while we play board games. Halloween could be a wonderful day to come
together with those we love—it’s as simple as that I suppose.
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