Look what I found apple picking!
Posted on 10/01/2004 5:51:07 AM PDT by grellis
First, I'd like to thank Jim Robinson for the subtitle of this week's thread. Took some guesswork off of the Table!
With Halloween just around the corner I thought we could discuss, well, all things Halloween. (In case you were wondering I have not, in fact, finished my first pot of daily coffee.) Do your kids get dressed up and go trick or treating? Do YOU get dressed up and go trick or treating? How is the day handled at your child's school? Do they have a Halloween party or is the mere mention of a holiday with Christian roots absolutely forbidden? Do you decorate your home for the occasion?
Can anyone give me a few tips on how to dress my 7 year old as Legolas??? Why is it that some kids refuse to be something normal, like Dracula or a Viking?
When we still lived in Dover I would take her across town to a friend, we would take his niece and nephew and my little one in that neighborhood -- my neighborhood was not safe enough for normal adults to be out after dark, let alone little kids.
Do towns/cities around you set hours and age limits for the trick or treating each year?
>>Do towns/cities around you set hours and age limits for the trick or treating each year?<<
No but every town should!!!
My 27 year old niece and 30 year old Wiccan nephew-in-law went trick or treating and were really offended when people turned them away.
At least now they have a baby to hide behind.
I bet on-post trick or treating is fun! I don't really remember much about H'ween from when we were at Ft. Knox, probably since we didn't have the kids then.
Yep.
The mice costumes sound so cute! We don't do a lot of decorating either, just the pumpkins the day before H'ween.
New Line is selling LOTR costumes; I'd guess they have Legolas.
We have never "celebrated" Hallowe'en, due to our Biblical convictions. But we do celebrate on October 31 — we celebrate the start of the Reformation.
So each October 31, the family (well, except me; I never seem to be around at this moment) gathers in the front room, lights dimmed, fire in the fireplace. And then Dr. Martin Luther invariably comes to visit! With a rather thick German accent, he tells the "klein kinder" about his life, how he was struck to the ground in terror of a flash of lightning, and promised St. Anne that he would become a monk if he lived.
He tells how he gave himself to his monkery with all his heart, but could find no peace, because he was never convinced that he had confessed all his sins, or done well enough. At the same time, as he began lecturing on the Bible, he struggled fiercely with Paul's words in Romans 1:17, that in the Gospel "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'" Then he tells how he finally came to see that that phrase did not refer to God's righteousness by which He damns sinners, but by which He is righteous, and bestows His own righteous standing on the one who has faith in Jesus.
He tells them how this set him free and filled him with joy and love for Jesus, and changed his life.
Then he tells about the scrape he got into when he found that the church he served all his life was perverting the Gospel, sending out a man to sell made-up spiritual favors for money. He tells about nailing up his arguing-points on the church door on October 31, 1517, and of what came of it.
Then he gives honor and praise and glory to God, and urges the "klein kinder" to love Jesus and welcome God's Good News. And because that Good News is so sweet, he gives them some chocolate to make them think of the sweetness of God's love in Christ's Gospel. He usually leads them in singing one of his songs, "Ein Feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortess").
Then he leaves.
And doggone it, I always seem to come back right after he leaves! Every year!
Dan
I agree with you!
Mine's 6, and has told me she wants to be Patch from 101 dalmations. Simple: white bodysuit, white tights with black fabric paint for spots!!!!
When I was a kid, the town used to blow a short blast on the tornado siren to signal the official start of trick or treating (7pm) and then again at the end (8pm). It was routinely ignored. Kids would start as soon as they could and there were teenagers still out and about past 10pm. I don't think there's any official mandate here in Lansing.
I'm going to go be wistful for a while!
LOL!!! sounds cute.
When Jax was 3 I dressed her a dalmation puppy (which is why I know how to make the costume for this year!) and I dressed as Cruella DeVille....complete with half white hair, spotted fur coat and foot long cigarette holder!!!!!
6pm -8pm seems to be the predominant time limit, and no one over 13 in costume (unless accompanying younger siblings).
That had surprised me when I first noticed it in Dover, I remember doing all the trick-or-treating when we got home from schooll and then handing out candy after dinner.
I don't know how the curfew is handled in the towns around here, but the cops in Dover were pretty strict about no one under 18 out after 8 or 9pm --- especially in "certain" neighborhoods.
I'm hoping to hear one of the SwiftVets speak next Wednesday :-). (What's a weekend, anyway ...)
I have several Middle-eastern outfits from my belly-dancing days, and sometimes I wear them if the kids have costumes. It seems like we do costumes about every other year, although this will be our second "off" year in a row. Good thing, since the boys have just gotten into Star Wars!
LOL! We were at a thrift store the other day when my husband found a Frankenstein scalp. He made a comment about being able to dress up as John Kerry if the hair was dyed grey.
What a DARLING picture!!!!!!!
Thanks :) We were visiting my family last week and took the kids apple picking. I had a few rolls of B&W left, so we took a bunch of silly pictures! I love Fall!
She is so cute!! How old is she now? I am 6 weeks away and I can't wait!
Are you having any luck getting back to your normal weight?
My boys usually dress in complementary costumes. For instance, Bob was a cowboy and Joey was a cow when they were 8 and 2. The next year Bob was a prisoner and Joey was a Cop. Then Bob was a doctor and Joey was the patient--complete with fake blood ALL over him.
Since we moved to Oklahoma and there is no one on our road who participates in Trick or Treat (they are the only children on the road) and they go to different schools, Joey dresses in costume for the Halloween party at school. They take candy and go from class to class for treats. I sent gingerbread last year and apple cider.
Bob usually goes over to a friends house in a more kid-friendly neighborhood and they go door to door until all the porch lights get turned off. That pale shade of green they have the next day from all that candy is priceless.
AAAAW!
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