Each year Halloween is a question mark for our family. There's a lot about it that we don't enjoy, and it makes us wonder why it's a holiday. This year we were quite festive. Shayna had the kids (and herself) all decked out in costumes she creatively put together that day. I threw on a cape my mom made for me when I was hopefully no older than 5. Carmel apples, then trick or treating- we were on such a role we probably would have eventually made our way to one of those creepy haunted houses that we can't stand... except that after the first house (Doreena and Glen's house, where we surveyed the salt shaker collection) both kids fell asleep in the car. Shayna made it to one more house (the Andersons- we just hoped that we knew that she was just stopping in to say hi, and that she wasn't just trying to get free candy), and then we headed home. Wow. That is a 200% increase from last year. I talked Shayna into watching the nightmare before christmas... we did make it through the first song... and then Shayna turned to me and expressed her hatred for claymation, gross things, and weird musicals... that about sums up the whole movie so we turned it off and went to bed. Next year maybe we'll sip some cider or attempt to watch a Little House on the Prairie halloween special from the '70s... you know... something really wild.
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