I love Halloween. I’ve carved at least one pumpkin every year of my life that I can recall. I don’t have kids, but we go over to my brother and SIL’s house to go trick or treating with my 6 year old nephew. It’s very funny to see 7 adults trailing a little kid (both sets of grandparents, Mom and Dad and me, the Auntie). We take turns staying at their house to hand out candy.
We went to a “fall festival” at his school on Friday. It bums me out that they’re not allowed to call it a Halloween Carnival, like they did when I was a kid, even though everything was all about Halloween. I was so excited that they had a cake walk and a fishing booth. The only thing they didn’t have, which was kind of a bummer, was a bake sale. A lot of schools don’t allow bake sales because of the likelihood of nuts inadvertently ending up in the cookies and brownies and fudge (I’m drooling just remembering looking at all the baggies filled with goodies and agonizing over which one to choose). And it was kind of funny, that none of the cakes were homemade, they were all purchased (but at least they could check the ingredients list, which is a good thing). My Mom used to make a cake every year for the cake walk at my elementary school and so did everybody else’s Mom.
I like scary movies like Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity, but not slasher movies or guesome movies, and I never cared for the formulaic movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th. I’ll take a good mystery over a blood drenching any night. I used to love to watch Night Gallery and Circle of Fear when I was a kid. There was never a drop of blood shown, but those shows scared the beejezus out of me and my brother.
I’m carving my pumpkin tonight and I will also be roasting the seeds. So yummy!