I am super excited about Halloween tomorrow. I’m not sure if it’s because of my Halloween deprivation as a child or the fact that I now have a child of my own to celebrate it with, but whatever, EXCITEMENT!
We have these neighbors across the street from us that have huge Halloween decorations in their yard. They have two of those big blowup whatyamacallits and gravestones lining the walkway up to their door. River loves looking out the window at their decorations and is constantly pointing at them saying “Dah?”. I contemplated (for a whole 5 seconds) putting Halloween decorations in our yard but I thought it might look like we are trying to compete when honestly, there is just no competing with these people.
They actually mow their lawn and on top of that, they even manage to rake up the leaves (I bet the inside of their house is spotless too, which is just sooo not my style, I’m more a controlled chaos sort of girl.) So even if I were to go out and buy Halloween decorations in an attempt to compete, my yard would just then actually look like a graveyard as opposed to a perfectly trimmed yard with graveyard decorations. There is a difference.
We did carve pumpkins last night which is much more in keeping with our “natural” theme (read: easier, cheaper and can be composted.)
If we weren’t sick I would be way more into Halloween. I’ve barely decorated. And I’ve been so busy. Also my birthday is Friday so I think I am a little bit…weird…about that. The numbers just keep getting higher.
I totally feel you an the birthday. I am ALWAYS weird around my birthday. I don’t know why but I am inevitably in a bad mood every year. I’ll never understand why some people get so excited about it.
I get more excited about Halloween now that I have kids too. I think that’s a big part of it. Especially when they are little.
I can’t wait to see my butterfly daughter and my ninja turtle son go kick some halloween butt together.
every year I buy one of those blow up lighted spiders. Spiders are my theme… lol maybe that is why spiders live in my garage… anyway this year we didn’t put them up because of selling the house and I am sad because Kya would of loved them!
Do they have blow up Santas for Christmas?
Some people go way out with this stuff. It can be awesome in the “whoa! how much do you need?” sense of the word! LOL!
Tara, I hope you and River have a great Halloween. And don’t worry about competing with the neighbors. Do what makes you feel good.
Next year, if you wanna decorate, then do it.
Some people put so much stuff out that it looks overly done.
I say—next year, decorate b/c you know River will love it.
*P.S. you so have to read my response to your post about weaning. I’m proud of some of my comebacks.
