Halloween Screaming Makes Me Happy

So many people are costume grouches and generally hate Halloween. These people are usually Easter and Christmas people. We are in different clubs.

I am team Halloween all the way baby! WHOOT WHOOT!

I like Walking Dead, Stephen King and little chocolates that hardly have calories. I love the fact that this holiday does not require a visit with relatives – this is a big selling feature.

At our house we bond for hours over the planning of decor, choosing costumes and imaging perfect details to complete the look of our front yard. We have scary things, and gory pieces. We play with giant spider webs, spray silly string, set up strobe lights and monsters that waggle in the wind.

At dinner tonight we debriefed on the decorating progress and eldest child said “Oh I found the box of bones and parts, are we using feet this year?” Then younger child came through from the garage with a bottle of stage blood and a plastic hatchet.

The pride I feel in their creativity and hard work is immeasurable. They come up with cool pumpkin designs,and original compositions for shrunken heads and the family coffin. (Yes we have one)

This is how I figure it. The world can be a frightening place for grown people, never mind for kids. When they make light of ghosts and ghouls they have power over scary things. They mock things that go bump in the night and make their own ghosts rather than hiding from bad dreams.

We draw the line at horror movies at our house, because Hollywood installs a level of gore and fright that kids don’t need forced into their dreams in the night. We let them make their own videos and silly ghost stories.

It will all be over when we click over to November, and then we hand off to team Christmas while we finish off a giant bowl of chocolates covered in silly string.

BOO!