Entropy Girl was a dragon (me: Are you a nice dragon or a scary dragon? EG: I'm a TWO year old dragon!) and the Boy Wonder went as fireworks.


I decided last year that I would only commit to one time-intensive costume per year. This year was the Boy Wonder's year since he wanted to be fireworks and his sister didn't much care (although she's already announced that next year she will Trick-or-Treat as a puppy - a pink puppy. In a purse.) I wish we had his box all squared (ha!) away before snapping these shots because he really was darling. And he worked very hard on this - the idea was to paint a box that he'd wear hanging from his shoulders and then use gallons of glitter glue to put fireworks on all four sides. Then he wore a bunch of strands of those bendy wire foil star decorating things all twisted up as a kind of hat. Once he got the hang of walking inside the box he was quite happy with the effect.

The dragon came from last year's post-Halloween clearance from Target. And, really, what more could I possibly ask of a toddler's costume than to 1) fit over clothes, 2) eliminate the need of an additional coat and 2) be inexpensive cheap?

In other news, pineapple has been procured and weekend time cleared. We just might end up with some pineapple lime jam before too long. The mother of one of the Boy's friends heard of the plan and said, "Oh, what a wonderful gift that would make!" and all I could think was gift, schmift, this stuff's gonna be for me.

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When did Halloween start to require as much effort as Christmas? Actually, now that I think about it, Halloween is a bit more daunting than Christmas at my house since I take full advantage of Advent to think about the season, celebrate and prepare. And, of course, being the Type A planner that I am, I've had Christmas gifts and crafts ready and waiting since May.

But Halloween sneaks up on me and seems to require almost as much effort and planning with the benefit of neither an advent-type season nor socially-sanctioned months-in-advance planning. Getting the kids' costumes ready, the treats baked, pumpkins decorated, the crafts completed, the parties attended and house festive has required the efforts of two parents and one au pair and, lemme tell ya, we've not done everything that we'd been asked to do - AND, the actual trick-or-treating (once upon a time the only Halloween event worth talking about) hasn't even happened yet. Just this morning I told the Director of Entropy Girl's preschool that I had to take a Halloween Hiatus from the major fundraising project on which I am working and that my life is now divided into "before Halloween" and "after Halloween". This, to me, is an alarming state of affairs.

I am more than a little concerned about the escalation of Halloween festivities. I mean, Brainiac and I knew we wanted to give our kids the full Childhood Magic Package™, but the parameters of that goal are expanding all the time. Must every single moment be magical? Can we not, say, put on a pirate suit for one evening, collect a little candy, carve a pumpkin, maybe bob for an apple and call it a day? Why am I - and several parents of my acquaintance - planning for several costumes per child so that they (the kids and the costumes) make it through the fortnight of Halloween merrymaking? One night of magic and wonder is no longer enough, apparently - at least where All Souls are concerned.

So I'm about to pop (another) cranberry orange mini-muffin into my mouth (leftover from Entropy Girl's Sunday School party) to fortify me for today's round of events: costume parades and parties for both children, a visit to my mother-in-law in the hospital, a Halloween party set-up this evening and trying to finish the remaining work on one costume since Entropy girl's other two have not survived the week's round of pumpkin painting and cookie decorating. It's not so much the Souls I'm thinking about as the veil between the world thins tomorrow night, but rather whether my own soul can make it through.

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