So, tell me about Halloween...
It's true...
I seem to be missing out on this thing called Halloween. NJ Walters is blogging about pumpkins. Shelli Stevens is blogging about costumes. Over at the Romance Divas forum they've touched on trick and treating. And over on the Triskelion loops they're playing with ghosties and goulies and the like (or they will be very soon!).
I'm a little envious! I need you to tell me what you do for halloween. What are your family traditions? I need to know so I can pretend to have my own halloween right here in New Zealand.
I'm so desperate to know I'm offering a bribe.
Anyone who comments on this post or on any of the posts before Monday will go into the draw to win a download of my contemporary story Wild Child.
And if like me, you don't celebrate halloween tell me about your favorite celebration or a family tradition and you're in the draw. I love to celebrate and will announce the winner in my next post, which is on Monday.
PS - Have you entered the Kiwi Triple Treat contest over on my website? If not, go and do it now since the last day for entries is 31 October!
I seem to be missing out on this thing called Halloween. NJ Walters is blogging about pumpkins. Shelli Stevens is blogging about costumes. Over at the Romance Divas forum they've touched on trick and treating. And over on the Triskelion loops they're playing with ghosties and goulies and the like (or they will be very soon!).
I'm a little envious! I need you to tell me what you do for halloween. What are your family traditions? I need to know so I can pretend to have my own halloween right here in New Zealand.
I'm so desperate to know I'm offering a bribe.
Anyone who comments on this post or on any of the posts before Monday will go into the draw to win a download of my contemporary story Wild Child.
And if like me, you don't celebrate halloween tell me about your favorite celebration or a family tradition and you're in the draw. I love to celebrate and will announce the winner in my next post, which is on Monday.
PS - Have you entered the Kiwi Triple Treat contest over on my website? If not, go and do it now since the last day for entries is 31 October!
posted by Shelley Munro at 5:25 AM
12 Comments:
No celebrating Halloween in New Zealand, not really missing much. I just give out candies to the kids and take mine out for trick&treating.
As usual with any holidays/special days, it has become really commerciallized for Halloween. It almost a must for the kids to wear the lastest costumes, use this as an excuse to buy candy, but it is still fun for the kids (just like Christmas, lol)
I think Halloween has changed since I was a kid. We (the kids) used to run around trick or treating until the like 10-11pm at night all alone, nowadays most doors and lights are shut by 9pm plus many parents are escorting the kids as a safety precaution. Also, more worries about dangerous things placed in candies so the parents have to inspect them before the kids can eat them. Why can't it be like it was before just good safe fun.
I still love Halloween, but I agree you have to be so careful now with your kids. When we were kids we used to run up and down the street totally free. LOL
Carving the pumpkin is still one of my favorite things to do. I love to light it up on Halloween night and watch scary movies after all the kiddies have been there and gone.
I love Halloween! It's my night! But Shuck and NJ are right...it's not like it was when we were kids. It wasn't safe then, really, for us to roam to strangers houses late at night, begging for candy, but we didn't have all the safety precautions we do now, and I think it's worse now. It's funny--we teach children not to take things or even talk to strangers, then at Halloween, what to we do? Tell them to go door-to-door and beg for candy from strangers, LOL! Hospitals and police stations now suggest to parents to bring in their children's hauls for the night and X-ray them to make sure there are no foreign objects (like razors) in them and to make sure the candy hasn't been tampered with. Nowadays, many people have parties, to help keep kids safer.
Anyway, here's what I do for Halloween. Because my boyfriend isn't into Halloween like I am, I kind of keep it quiet and to myself. :( I watch horror movies (more than usual, since more are on TV) during October (I'm going to see Saw 3 on Halloween this year, unless my boyfriend says no--he says, "We'll see," right now), buy some candy, read horror books during October, and take opportunities to check out costumes. I'd dress up if I were going out (besides the movie). I also will be hanging around in some Halloween chats (not all on Halloween) in the next few days.
When my kids were small, it was a lot of fun to put them in costumes and take them trick or treating. Now days you have to be so careful about where to take them, it takes the fun out of going.
I make caramel apples with the kids, and we would carve pumpkins the saturday before halloween. Dinner the night of is always pizza. When my kids were little, it was always my hubby that went with them, I always manned the door. Now the the kids are grown, he loves to be the one to hand out candy.
Another tradition I forgot. My kids would go out for exactly 2 hours, then come running home to then dump out all their candy and sort it. It had to be laid out across the living room rug in order by size and brand,and then a picture had to be taken before they would eat their first piece.Don't look at me, they dreamed this up all on their own.
My daughter is going to put on an old lady mask and help me giveaway goodies to the neighborhood children. My son is going to dress up like a Kissing Booth, run around with his friends, and try to get more candy than the little ones!
TJ
It's really sad that we have to worry about foreign objects in sweets and safety. I remember how we used to roam all over the countryside when we were kids. Life seems so complicated these days!!
Cathy: the phototaking of the sweets sounds like a fine idea to me!
TJ: a kissing booth? I think you should watch that boy! *grin*
Lauren & NJ - pumpkin carving sounds like so much fun. I noticed you have to buy special tool kits etc to carve them. (I noticed them in the shops when we were over there) What comes in the kit?
Jen: We have horror movies on TV tonight. The TV programmers must have heard you *grin* Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp is one of them.
Estella: the costumes sound like fun, too. What did you used to dress up as?
Shuck Ying: go on - tell me...what did you used to dress up as?
Lisa: It feels like I'm missing out!
Deborah: what did you dress up as? Commercialized - yes, I agree. One of the big chain stores tries to sell halloween stuff but it's not that big. The main thing for us at the moment is fireworks for Guy Fawkes Day which is on Nov 5. Fireworks went on sale yesterday.
I love Halloween! It's an excuse to be someone your not (the costume.)It's an excuse to watch scary movies and scare the snot out of yourself. Take the kids to a pumpkin patch and let them pick one out. Then dress them up on Halloween night and go door to door (or shop to shop) and get a ton of candy! It's the 'paranormal' holiday!
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