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There is a lot of controversy about Christians celebrating or not celebrating Halloween. That is not what this post is about. I run screaming away from controversy. I am the most uncontroversial person you will ever meet....if you ever meet me. When Annaleigh was about 4, we let her go trick-or-treating for the first time. It was not because we wanted her to have 5 pounds of candy in her possession or because she looked cute in her Dorothy costume. It was simply because we had gotten to know a lot of our neighbors pretty well and wanted the chance to greet and meet some more. On Halloween, all the neighbors come right up to your door....it's the only holiday that affords that kind of familiarity. We don't like monsters. We don't watch horror movies. We skip houses that use fake blood in their decorating. We don't celebrate Halloween. So, on that note, would you like to see some pictures of us not celebrating it? Basically, we do not decorate. Compared to Mr. Holiday, he is Disney World and we are the horse carousels outside of K-mart.
Our Halloween food traditions would make Martha Stewart cry. Big D grills chicken wings. I don't know why. He just does.
And then we make caramel apples. Or I should say we try. Last year I forgot to add water, so we couldn't eat them if we wanted to keep our teeth. This year I remembered the water, but I forgot to make room to refrigerate them and all the caramel ran off.
We let our kids wear costumes, but not scary ones. This year Annaleigh is 11. It was tough coming up with a costume for her. It was either a princess of some kind (again) or some sexy version of a pirate or Bratz doll or Hannah Montana. She finally decided to dress as a granny.
Harrison went as Zorro, and I was finally consoled in his growing his hair out. It was long enough for a ponytail.
He was convincing enough to have won the contest at this TKD class. Annaleigh won hers too, but by default. She was the only one who wore a costume, and she was mortified.
We don't believe that adults should wear costumes. We just always look like this.
And then animals should never, ever have anything to do with Halloween. Never. It's disgraceful.
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