H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N
FROM RYAN, BONNIE, RONAN, AND MADDOX
The boys making Skeleton Gingerbreadmen. |
From as far back as I can remember, my mum had this rule where my sister and I could not dress up as anything scary. I remember being 6 or 7 years old and wanting desperately to be Glenda from the Wizard of Oz, one of my favourite childhood films. Despite my persistence in the matter, I was turned down on the fact that even though Glenda did 'good' magic, she was a witch and that was classified under the 'What Not to Wear for Halloween' category. I loved dressing up all the same and that has become the one thing I really enjoy about the holiday. My partner on the other hand, has grown up loving the holiday and has a mother whom on every Halloween dresses up like a scary witch and hands out caramel apples to the neighbours. Once we had kids we had to see how to start new traditions with our family. While I still hold onto the 'no scary costumes' rule, we have allowed some halloween decorations to enter our house. This year we even had a one of the shelves on our bookcases dedicated for all the Halloween crafts that the boys made. Since Ronan and Maddox both love cooking (and eating!) I picked up a halloween cookie recipe that we did together as well as watching kid cartoon films based on the holiday like Garfield and Scooby Doo.
At Church playing games for Hallelujah Night. |
Veggie Bangers and Chips with Orange Squash for Supper. |
Maddox making Handcuffs. |
aNow where that is how Halloween has been experienced in our family, we had the opportunity of experiencing it together for the first time in England this year. I honestly do not remember dressing up for Halloween or doing anything for the holiday at all when I was a young girl living in England many years back. It is still not a very big holiday here, though it has grown in popularity in the last 20 years. The one thing that jumped out at me was how all the fancy dress (aka costumes) items at the store are based on the generic Halloween characters like vampires, werewolves, witches, skeletons, and ghosts. Basically all the things I would not have been allowed by my mum to wear for Halloween. One of the perks of my job is that I get to meet a lot of people, and talking about holidays and cultural customs comes up quite frequently with my clients. I would bring up how my kids were going as comic book characters (Batman and Green Lantern) and I was surprised with how many reactions I got to their costume choices because it was not "Halloween" fancy dress. With that said when we did go Trick or Treating, we saw not a lot of variety of costumes and it was mostly older kids like teenagers that I saw out or adults in costume at parties.
With the lights out we sang, 'Shine Jesus Shine', one of my favourite songs. |
Ronan linking up his bracelets. |
A few photos from Trick or Treating in Lindfield.
The houses that were participating had a Jack O Lantern or Halloween decorations in their windows.
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