costumes
Happy Halloween!
From the annals of My Halloweens Past:
- Longest my candy ever lasted: until February (unless you count the gross stuff)
- Shortest my candy ever lasted: until December
- Best costume in humor category: gum on the bottom of a shoe
- Best costume in the cute category: cowgirl (yeah, I was a tom boy. No princesses here)
- Worst costume: clown (I cried until my mom took it off)
- Most Recent costume: Geisha
- Best treat received: $1 bill
- Worst treat received: toothbrush
- Age I stopped trick-or-treating: 13
- Age I was first questioned about being too old to trick-or-treat: 10
- Most times I trick-or-treated in a year: 1
- Most time my children have trick-or-treated in a year: 4
- Parent tax demanded of me: all my Almond Joys and Mounds
- Current “parent tax” I charge my children: 2 pieces of my choosing (but they usually give me more)
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candy, costumes, Halloween, parent tax, trick-or-treatDoing the Impossible
I know I said I’d follow up on the guessing from Monday’s post, but I’ll do that Friday. Promise.
So, I have this yearly tradition. Just before Halloween, I break out the sewing machine and sew a costume for one of my kids. The others get store-bought, because one is all I can handle.
The thing is, I am no seamstress. Like at all. I avoided sewing like the plague. Even the bookmark I had to make in Home Ec didn’t look like a bookmark. Pitiful, I know.
Then three years ago, my friend was doing her annual frenzy of sewing FIVE costumes. Amazing! But dangitall, it looked fun. So with the promise of help (that I could call her with every little question, no matter how stupid), I took the leap. It took me a month to make it, but here are the fruits:
Yes, yes, I know, you’re all impressed. 😉
This tradition isn’t just about saving money on a costume (because it costs me more to sew one than to just buy it). It’s about reminding myself that I can do the seemingly impossible when I put my mind to it.
What impossible feats are you accomplishing?