It was fine this year. I suppose it always is for the kid. Halloween was always my favorite holiday, up until Anya was born. Now it feels more like a chore to get through, since I put a lot of energy into her birthday. But there are some fun bits to it. For one, we always start the Neighborhood Boo (fill a bag with treats for neighbors with a ghost image to put on their door, showing they've been boo'ed. They need to do the same for other neighbors and keep it going). I started it years back in our micro-neighborhood and it finally seems to have caught on. This year, pretty much every house on our regular walking route had our little ghost on the front door. That filled me with glee. What I also loved is that we got boo'ed by someone using a different format. Not our ghost. I'm guessing a classmate from a different neighborhood. Fun!
Anya also really got into decorating the house/yard this year. There were cobwebs all over every picture and many decorations in the big picture window. She wanted a little scarier this year, so we hung a zombie-thing from the tree out front and put up grave stones. And more cobwebs over all the bushes. It looked pretty good.
As for costumes, Anya wanted to be a ghost-fairy (something she saw in a friend's costume catalog over the summer). Easy enough. I just serged some gauze together to make a tattered tunic and underskirt. She wore a ballerina outfit and some wings and it was done. I was supposed to be Medusa and Chris supposed to be Perseus, but I didn't manage pull the costumes together. Instead, I was the Queen of the Spiders and Chris a fisherman. Easy. Done.
The kids got to wear costumes to school and had a big party in the afternoon. I helped run it. There were a handful of games and activities and a bit of sugar. The kids had fun.
Once home from school we put on or refreshed our costumes and headed over to Liam's house to meet up with PEPS families. The group went out en masse for trick-or-treating, but pretty quickly separated into Type A and Type B trick-or-treating personalities. It's a pretty easy guess which group Anya was in. After a little while, our family drove back home so Chris and Anya could trick-or-treat in our neighborhood, while I handed out candy.
Chris and Anya ended up meeting up with some neighbors (Anya's school / bus friends Naomi and Paul and their parents) and they had fun collecting tons of candy.
Speaking of Anya's candy haul, her Kindergarten class collected Halloween candy to send to soldiers. Anya wanted to trade most of her candy for a necklace that holds bugs anyway (priorities, people), so she turned in lots for the cause. For that I'm glad, since once it's out of the house, there's none for me to sneak.
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