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Rain rain rain. Tail end Hurricane Sandy pour down. However, earlier today, sun peek out. Smart friend facebook status: Shit. Does this mean Halloween’s back on?
Not possible Bigfoot agree more. Even li’l Bigfoot not like Halloween. (Except one year w. tinsel halo, white flannel nightie, paper towel taped each shoulder blade, & mascara = angel.) As parent, slightly like Halloween ages 0-4, when can dress unknowing child cute farm animal/lobster. Maybe if children enjoy creative/literary costumes, Bigfoot more enthusiasm. But now Jack slap on generic mask, Bubs simultaneous hate dress up/covet $80 storm trooper suit; Bigfoot/BSpouse eat too many Twix, feel sick.
Plus, of course, also, go without say, diabetes make candy holiday so much worse. Olden times Bigfoot ordinary crunchball fear high fructose corn syrup, GMO, artificial color, tooth decay. Now. Ugh. Everything fraught.
And so. While Hurricane Sandy still Jamaica, boys plan Haunted Disco Garage Halloween party. BSpouse acquire Just Dance 4 for XBox Kinect as thrilling party centerpiece. Some benefits this idea:
- Bubs, who has never liked Halloween, can happily take part by playing a video game in a garage instead of feeling like a freakishly reclusive, anxious troll
- Jack will spend less time gathering candy, reducing Bigfoot/BSpouse’s access to Twix
- Just Dance 4 requires a lot of energy*, i.e. glucose
- This is not a real party—we only mentioned it to a few friends in advance, and they are all close friends who won’t expect bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with gorgonzola, so it will be easy to execute
- It will be fun to see kids in masks dance to Flo Rida
- A friend loaned us a disco ball set
- I enjoyed a few brief flashes of “Check me out, dealing with a potentially bad situation in a creative way that could become a beloved community event!”
*and talent
But when everything (hurricane) conspire cancel Halloween, Bigfoot happy. Feel like ahhhh. Now I get credit for being a nice mommy who agreed to have a party, but I don’t have to do any of the wretched things it entails:
- It’s rainy and branchy and leafy outside and I am warm and dry inside
- Moving the loppers, weed whacker, chain saw, bicycle shoes, bicycle pumps, kayak, and tarps out of the garage and into the…where? in the rain?
- Setting up twinkle lights up in the rain–>electrocution?
- Jack keeps thinking of more things we “need” like white balloons with glow sticks inside, and doughnuts to hang from strings from the rafters of the garage, and I am not sure we even have string
- Figuring out how to set up the Kinect thing with a projector and speakers seems impossibly complex
- Bubs insists he doesn’t want and will refuse to wear a costume, but if last year is any indication, he will change his mind at the last minute
- I could not find Hostess Snoballs for the Touch if You Dare troll warts, so I bought something called German Chocolate Cake marshmallows which should be tactile-ly wartish but–even sealed up in their package–have a strong Yankee Candle artificial coconut odor and so I dread opening this package.
Happy Halloween from 2006.
Tonight go to sleep, brain twirl w. Halloween anxiety. Not just Haunted Disco Garage problem. Also this: some mini Twix 7g CHO, other mini Twix 11g CHO. Very difficult note difference at glance.
(Also I am afraid someone will want to eat the German Chocolate Cake marshmallows which I guess is the smallest of the world’s problems: someone might want to eat an artificially flavored marshmallow on Halloween.)
So many hard things to do. A+ if you nail one of them. I’ve worried about you in the storm all this time, Halloween is an added bonus to your gifts.
Aw, thanks.
Lucky friends!!! Happy Halloween!!!
We will be ready to have fun. I promise!
not worried at all! i have string let me know if you still need!
The party sounds lovely. I am taking my boys trick or treating but then they won’t get to eat any of the treats afterward. Maybe I’ll eat them myself, I haven’t planned that far ahead yet. Naively, I believe that it will be easy for them to hand over the candy and that halloween and trick or treating is really all about the experience. We’ll see.
Good luck to us all!
The party sounds lovely Katy! Hope the kids have fun. I’ll be out trick-or-treating with Joe…It is always an “adventure”.
“Jack keeps thinking of more things we “need” like white balloons with glow sticks inside” -Brilliant! And such a pretty mirror ball! Is it really gold like the picture? Your party sounds like epic fun! Way better than standard Halloween fare. I do understand the dread.
When my kids were smallish, the razor-blades-in-apples, needles-in-candy-bars thing was a new phenomenon. So we and some other parent/friends came up with a party out on the property one of them had… Highlight was the “Spirit Walk” led by “Miss Wormwood” (parent done up to be Teacher from Hell) through the dark and scary woods (wearing glow sticks). All along the twisty path parents had set up “stations” where they would play out whatever creepy skit their devious little minds could come up with. Generally there was a pass-the-brandy-Bailey’s-whatever thing happening station to station as we waited, freezing, for the spirit walkers to get to us. I remember one year being menacing tigers, with my 7 y.o. daughter (who HAD to be in a skit, please please, PLEASE yeah ok) We blocked the walkers’ way, snarl-bellowing “Tiger tiger burning bright! Prowling hungry through the night.” -etc., (shamelessly bastardizing Blake) after which I demanded reasons from each why I should not disembowel such tasty little people for my cub and me to feast upon? When finally convinced, We led them to my den and gave them all elk jerky + sent them on their way ):>(=) gRrrrrRRrrrr… Much easier to transform with full costume, for shy-ish folk like myself. Interesting, the psycho-characters parents I thought I knew could turn into. Every year I dreaded the approach of this huge freaking effort-fest, and every year, post-party, would find it was the most fun ever. Sorry so long. Have huge fun! Glad your house still stands. Even better, it ROCKS!