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Happy Halloween, everyone! The day started with an astonishing sunrise and is ending on a blue moon. I’m taking a break from fiction during my morning writing block to scribble an October blog post that I’ve meant to write for weeks. Every time I sat down to do it, my efforts were thwarted by the Freeform channel’s eerily addictive programming. Apparently there’s no limit to the number of times you can watch Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Goosebumps movie.
Anyway, I hope you and your family enjoy the holiday. I did my dressing up yesterday, donning a floppy brown hat and denim overalls to play scarecrow for the day. Our elementary school students returned this week (well, about half of them), and it was delightful to see their sweet faces and adorable costumes. Tonight it’s my children’s turn—Abbey is a 1920s flapper girl and sure to dazzle in her black and gold fringe dress, and Gabe is once again Anonymous, so he’ll be wearing two masks this year.
There are still pumpkins to carve, cupcakes to frost, and some edible zombie slime thing to prepare—it looks a bit like blood Jell-O swimming with gummy fingers and actually glows in the dark. It might just be the scariest thing I see tonight, unless I try to sit through yet another viewing of Hocus Pocus.
Stay safe, have fun, and see you in November!
Sounds like fun- we need to make the effort for the kiddos!
Agreed! We had a nice time and I hope your family did too. 🙂