Hello and welcome to Hallow's Eve Saturday here at the Wannaskan Almanac. Today is October 30th, and, folks, this is the first snow-free October we've had in a long time. Of course, we could get that Halloween snow (totally normal here) but the forecast is, thus far, suggesting otherwise.
Aaahhhh....Halloween! Goblins and ghouls. Scares and spooks. And lots of sweets. Last year, we hosted an at-home Halloween adventure of indoor trick-or-treating. Hubby and I taped numbers on the doors of every room in the house that had a door, creating an apartment building feel. Glowing pumpkins and night lights provided a dimly lit ambiance. With candy bags in hand, the kids made their way to each "apartment" and knocked.
"Who is it?" came a witchy, saccharine croon from the first room.
"Trick or treat!" the kids shouted. (Even the teenagers, because, you know, it's important to humor mom and dad.) The door opened, revealing a mysterious, black-shrouded crone who gurgled something garbled then rewarded the trick-or-treaters with some goodies. They knew it was their mother and delighted in the theatrics.
Knock, knock, knock. "Who is it?" came an old man's crackly bark from Room 2. The kids giggled. They knew it was their dad and they gladly played along.
They scurried the few feet to Room #3. Knock, knock, knock. "Trick-or-treat!" they cheered, candy bags already thrust out.
The door creeeeaaaaaked open to an eery, seemingly empty (bath)room. The kids took a tentative step. "Hello? Is anyone here?"
A dark figure in a rubber clown mask and curly-haired rainbow wig growled, "Who are you? And what are you doing in my home?"
"Mom?"
"I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER!" the grouchy occupant boomed.
The littles burst into tears. A little spooked themselves, the teenagers were impressed by their parents' savvy scare tactics.
"How did you do that?" the littles wailed after I assured them Tenant #3 was, in fact, their mother. "How did you get from one room to the next?"
"Teleportation, my dearies!"
After the trick-or-treat tour through the rest of the house (with one parent surrpetiously hopping to the next room while the other busied the kids with scares), we had one more trick up our sleeves.
Mwah-ha-ha....
A la Easter egg hunt but Halloween style, we hid glow-in-the-dark Hershey bars all over the living room. The trick to a good hunt is having lots of candy to hide so you put a few in some truly hard-to-find spots.
At the end of the night, we got two major thumbs up from the big kids. "To be honest," the WAKWIR* said, "I didn't think it would be that great. But you totally had us."
This year, the cookies are already baked, the pumpkins will be carved today and the kids are pretty psyched for what we may or may not have planned for this year.
Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha....
Happy Halloween!
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The St. Louis tradition is to tell a joke before you get a treat. We've been exchanging some of our favorites from years past:
ReplyDelete"How do you make a Kleenex dance?"
"Put a little boogie in it!"
Fun! We were asking Google to tell us jokes on the drive home. Unfortunately, I can't remember them. But I sure laughed a lot! Mwahahahahahaa...
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