QUOTE OF THE DAY (OR MORE): "No, no. You don't understand. This is an '89 Calico. I'm pretty sure that exceeds the Kelly Blue Book value. The cat's totaled." --A comedian whose name I forget talking about a vet who presents a $3,000 bill for a 12-year-old cat

Friday, October 29, 2010

Halloween challenged



I am just taking a moment to be grateful this morning.... grateful that the 14-year-old, as a freshman in high school now, no longer must have a Halloween costume.
I know, I know. Some of you are gasping for breath, unable to believe that there exists, right here on earth as your fellow human, a person who despises having to generate an idea for a child's Halloween costume, let alone find the time to create it from scratch. While I have some very good friends whom I admire immensely for their ability to produce an incredible, homemade, imaginative Halloween costume, I, myself, always depended on Target.
Therefore I am grateful this morning for my older son's status as a freshman in high school, exempt from all activities which prove his mother Halloween costume-challenged, and a younger son who is old and creative enough to produce his own homemade Halloween costume.
This year the 12-year-old is a "Cereal Killer." He is carrying a cereal box (a cereal which had no high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors or hydrogenated oils, mind you) with a fake knife plunged into it and fake blood spurting out of it. I could never have come up with that idea.
Though I am inept at Halloween costume creation, I can carve, as you can see, a mean pumpkin (assuming someone creative has already laid out the pattern for me on paper). I also do some pretty good iced Christmas cookies....



4 comments:

  1. Very impressive carvings!! Still have to carve our pumpkins tomorrow, and the kids are expecting masterpieces, as usual.

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  2. I used to be good at costume ideas. I feel like I've lost my mojo the last few years. This year I didn't even bother. My costume at work today: not getting ready for work. Didn't do my hair, wearing a hoodie and my slippers. I love those jackolanterns. I need to up my game there. cheers!

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  3. Love the carvings!

    Cereal Killer. Haha!

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  4. my dear, you are not allowed to call yourself challenged with carvings such as those. you can't be good at everything-costumes are nothing compared to those pumpkins.

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