Yes... you read it correctly. I wrote Happy Hallowen. This is a fun memory I have about the Halloween holiday. When my husband and I were in our first year of dating, I remember going to his house to carve pumpkins. He said, "Come over on your dinner break from work, and we can clean the pumpkins." I hadn't done anything with pumpkins since I was in grammar school, so I was pretty excited... and rusty. I showed up, and I thought we were actually going to "clean" the pumpkins. I wiped off the outside, and was thinking, "When are we going to gut them?" He teased me because that is precisely what he meant. He still teases me about that. He'll say, "Let's go 'clean' the pumpkins", with a big emphasis on "clean". That same first year, we started carving the pumpkins, and he wanted to do a "Happy Halloween" pumpkin (which is what he has done every year since). It looked incredible, except for one thing... he only carved out one 'e' in Halloween. He miraculously fixed it, but it's a funny joke with everyone in our family. We always say to each other at least once, "Happy Hallowen!"
We always have a fun time at Halloween. We go to my father-in-laws house, carve a lot of pumpkins, get a little bonfire out in front of the house, and have a bucket of candy for the kids to pick from. It made us feel so good because we have been getting more into it the past three years, and we have parents who say, "We look forward to coming here every year to look at your pumpkins!" One guy even thanked us and said that we were making people happy. How sweet was that? My husband does a lot of the really intricate fun ones. I like to do the simpler pumpkins that don't take as much time. I see myself as a pretty patient person, but not with pumpkins! Last night was a great evening from start to finish. My husband's brother and his wife came to spend the evening with us, we chatted with fellow neighbors, and even had friends stop by and trick-or-treat with their little ones (and give us yummy muffins, too!). It was a great night.
I know that Halloween is a time where people spend WAY to much money on candy, and kids have WAY to much sugar in their systems for the days to follow, but it is such a fun experience. On Saturday evening, my husband and I helped at a Halloween church party for the little kids, and we had a great time! It was just as much fun for us as it was for the little ones. You can't beat seeing children decked out in their costumes and excited to share about them. All the little children had grins from ear to ear that night. This holiday is so much fun. I even got a tad dressed up myself on that Saturday. I bought a witch hat, and wore a lot of make-up. It was a fun excuse to look silly for an evening. The funny thing is I forgot that my husband and I needed to go to the store that night before we went home, so it was a tad embarrassing walking into the grocery store with so much make-up on my face! Oh well... it was all in spirit of the fun holiday.
Happy Halloween to you all!
Happy Tuesday to you and yours...
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