All things Halloween

Halloween has come and gone, thank goodness. I don't know about you, but when did this holiday become such a big deal? There are so many houses on our street decorated to the gills with grave stones, fake body parts protruding from the ground, fog making machines (I kid you not), cob webs galore and hazard tape. What ever happened to a Jack-o-Lantern in the window and that was the end of it?

As you can see, we didn't do any Halloween decorating, even though we were heavily lobbied by the girls. Murray actually went out and got cob webs and hazard tape, but neither of us managed to find the time to put it up. My pumpkins and fall mums in the urns had to do double duty for Thanksgiving and Halloween. The three little pumpkins above the door did their part to make Halloween scary by randomly dropping on people's heads if they slammed the door too hard.

Here's Caroline, our little Swine Flu victim dressed as a dark fairy (with scarf that Mummy made her wear). Sarah wasn't sick so she got to go to her friend's sleep-over. Caroline had to stay home, but we let her go to a few houses so she wouldn't be too disappointed.

Earlier in the week, we made a batch of Halloween cookies. The girls decorated them with gusto and not a small amount of icing and sprinkles. Don't ask me why Caroline chose to wear her winter hat while doing this.

Caroline also did the honors with the blackboard wall in the kitchen and got it ready for Halloween this year. I particularly like her witch.