HAPPY HALLOWE’EN 2020 !
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER : I LOVE HALLOWE’EN!
I FELL IN LOVE WITH DRESSING UP AS A CHILD (WE HAD YOUR CLASSIC ‘TICKLE TRUNK’ OF ODDS AND SODS TO MAKE UP A CHARACTER) AND THEN I OBVIOUSLY PASSED ON THE LOVE OF THE DAY TO MY CHILDREN…AND NOW MY GRANDCHILDREN.
(IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COSTUMES…AND CANDY…HA HA)
THIS YEAR OUR DAUGHTER, EMILY, PLEADED US TO DRESS UP AS MOIRA AND JOHNNY ROSE (FROM THE SHOW SCHITT’S CREEK…WHICH WON EVERY EMMY AWARD IN ITS CATEGORY THIS YEAR!) I SAID, ‘NO’, BECAUSE OF COVID. WE AREN’T GOING TO A PARTY, HAVING A PARTY, GOING TO A RESTAURANT, OR EVEN PERSONALLY HANDING OUT THE CANDY THIS YEAR. BOO.
BUT WHEN I GOT THINKING ABOUT IT ….IF MY ADULT DAUGHTER ASKS ME TO DRESS UP….IS THAT NOT REASON ENOUGH?
SO…ABOVE YOU CAN SEE THE RESULT OF HOURS OF FUN PUTTING THOSE CRAZY COSTUMES TOGETHER. MY COSTUME MITRE (hat)IS MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD WITH GOLD EARRINGS POPPED THROUGH. I AM ALSO WEARING A SHEET AND 4 WIGS. SPOILER ALERT : THIS OUTFIT FROM THE FINAL SEASON AND EPISODE.
ANOTHER FUNNY THING IS THAT I BOUGHT 4 INCH,SPARKLY GOLD HEELS TO WEAR BUT MY LEGS WERE PUT INTO CRAMPS IMMEDIATELY (ARTHRITIS RELATED)SO I AM ACTUALLY JUST STANDING BEHIND EMPTY SHOES…HA HA HA HA! WE SET UP TERRY’S PHONE ON A TRIPOD AND BROUGHT IN OUR PAINTING LIGHTS AND VOILA…MOIRA AND JOHNNY ROSE!
EVEN MY HUSBAND, WHO IS NOT A BIG FAN OF THE DAY, GOT EVEN MORE INTO IT BY MAKING ME A HOMEMADE CARD OF HIMSELF AS ‘BLACKCHEWPANTHERBACCA’. THE STORY HERE IS THAT ONE YEAR HE BOUGHT THESE HILARIOUS STAR WARS ONESIES FOR HIMSELF AND OUR BROTHER-IN-LAW, DAVE, AND TERRY LOVED HIS COZY ‘CHEWBACCA’ ONESIE SO MUCH THAT HE SAID THAT IF I AM GOING TO MAKE HIM WEAR A COSTUME EVERY YEAR THEN HE IS ONLY GOING TO WEAR THAT ONE! SO I HAVE MADE HIM BECOME….’DRACCUBACCA’, ‘SKELLABACCA’, ‘SCARYCLOWNBACCA’. (THE CARD IS ‘BLACKCHEWPANTERBACCA”S FACE)
ABOVE, OUR DAUGHTER, LANA,(WHO ALSO IS JUST STAYING IN HER APARTMENT) DRESSED UP AS ‘ROCKET RACOON’ THIS YEAR. OUR BROTHER-IN-LAW, ALBERT, DRESSED UP AS A PILOT AS HE IS A TEACHER WHO HAS TO DRAG HIS COMPUTER AND BOOKS FROM ROOM TO ROOM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL!
I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE OUR GRANDSONS IN THEIR OUTFITS THIS YEAR. ABOVE, MYRO(WHO IS ONLY 5!) DREW THIS AMAZING HALLOWE’EN MURAL. JENNY, OUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ACTUALLY SPENT HOURS ON THESE COSTUMES ….EVEN MAKING THE HATS FOR THE WITCH AND WIZARD FOR TONIGHT !
BREAKING NEWS: EMILY JUST SAW MY FACEBOOK POST ABOUT OUR COSTUMES AND SHE IS OVER THE MOON! SHE SAID SHE FELT ACTUALLY SAD WHEN SHE WOKE UP BECAUSE THERE WERE NO PARTIES OR REASONS TO DRESS UP. BUT THEN SHE SAW THAT HER PARENTS DRESSED UP AND WE SAVED THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWE’EN FOR HER! I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING. SO HAPPY WE DID THIS.
Our ‘Skelly’ waiting to hand out candy.