Last Saturday night was the long-awaited Halloween party for the little girls in my neighborhood...the one that's been in the works for MONTHS!!! They started asking me about it in January! Finally in July, I had them come for their first "planning session"....they made treat bags and came up with grandiose ideas like buying REAL magic brooms to fly on, stuff like that! In August they came for another "planning session" and this time they decorated their witch hats....in September they came and made amulets and we discussed our menu...they suggested we have REAL bats and REAL worms...and finally, a few weeks ago the LAST of the planning meetings was held and the girls made some decorations and put in their two cents on how everything should look...they had such a good time planning, and I don't think one of them even noticed that I didn't use any of their ideas! So Saturday was the party...and they were practically jumping off the walls with excitement!
Cute little critters, aren't they?! We started our evening off with dinner...first everyone had to drink their magic potion - little vials filled with Pop-Rocks - and then they were given their amulets - magical necklaces to ward off evil...the girls served each other their dinner...deadman over worms, ghost potatoes, pumpkin seeds, gotcha pasta, oozing innards, and bread bones...all washed down with witch's brew...
There were plenty of test-tubes to enjoy between the coarses...dried blood, desicated liver, goblin boogers, tarantula legs...fiendishly good!
After dinner, we donned our capes and headed out into the dark of night...there is NOTHING I like better than to ding-dong-ditch during the Halloween "season"...so I taught my protege's the finer art of ringing and running...of course, we LEFT treats - it would have been rude not to! Little bags filled with severed fingers...I only made one mistake...I failed to consider that my dear little friends could and would run faster than ME!!! I did my best to keep up but it almost killed me! We also did a little "boo-ing" while we were out...the girls stealthily approached a house, crept to the front door and then covered the door with cardboard ghosts that said, "you've been booooooooed!" Then they rang the bell and screamed as they ran away...and I, once again, tried to keep up!
After hitting about 10 houses we came back to the manse to enjoy some ghostly cupcakes...I think the girls had a great time, especially screaming around the neighborhood in the dark, they were screaming with delight, I was screaming in pain! But it was great fun...this is my 25th year of ding-dong-ditching...and you would have thought by now I'd know to wear RUNNING shoes instead of my witch's boots!
I'd like to leave you with one thought today:
GET INTO THE SPIRIT BEFORE YOU BECOME ONE!