2. The child you spent a small fortune to buy a costume that she committed to wear even though you had your doubts, wears the costume for half of the school day and then changes into a new costume after lunch. Just to make things for interesting, her trick or treating costume is something entirely different; Miss Obvious. This costume consists of her regular school clothes and "Miss Obvious" written across her forehead. $32 well spent.
3. Tall and beautiful teenager is asked to dance at the Halloween Dance by an 18 year old senior. She is flattered. I want to know his name and address.
4. WalMart is a circus from October 29th at 8:00 p.m. until at least 3:00 p.m. on Halloween.
5. So is Costco, Target, and any grocery store.
6. There are no pumpkins to buy on Halloween day.
7. Church Halloween parties are utter and complete houses of terror and chaos but they serve pizza, provide games and prizes. God bless them.
8. If church party is slated to end at 6:00 p.m. and the University of Utah has a game starting at that time, the party will end 30 minutes early (clean up and drive home time taken into consideration).
9. The year you buy $26 worth of quality candy is the year trick or treaters fall by 75%. And the time of year you are already counting calories and can't touch the good stuff. Except at night when everybody is asleep.
10. All children can do their own make-up with interesting results.
11. Make-up would stay on face until Thanksgiving if not for Johnson & Johnson's baby soap applied directly onto skin then scoured off using a rough washcloth.
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What Halloween lessons did you learn?
I learned that you can carve a pumpkin on November 1 and it is okay that you didn't get to it before then.
ReplyDeleteYou need to enlist someone to do surveillance on your daughter and have them trip any approaching males.
I cannot imagine Walmart having a day where it is weirder than normal. lol
ReplyDeleteI learned that if someone is having a party at 6:30, if I get there before 7, no one else will be there.
ReplyDeleteI learned that on very cold days you have a few trick or treaters and you need 20 pieces of candy. On a beautiful Halloween day like this one, I had 150 candy bars and ran out. (I think we had a few repeat faces too.) That may have something to do with Kit-Kats instead of suckers this year.
ReplyDeleteI learned that kids are lazy. It was ridiculous to see how many kids slumped their shoulders and sighed because I was sitting on my porch and they had to walk up the sidewalk and 3 steps to get a piece of candy.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to RUNNING from house to house?!? Kids today are weak and fat.
I learned that my neighborhood unwittingly passed out H1N1 with their Almond Joys.
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I learned that apparently not as many people were giving out candy this year!
ReplyDeleteI learned that if you carve your pumpkin 1 week before Halloween that your pumpkin will be a rotting mess by the 30th.
ReplyDeleteLOL - too funny about your lessons learned - I bought 2 huge bags of candy and had ZERO trick-or-treaters this year - *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI too learned that Pumpkins are not available for love or money in November.... and the candy that I bought. Well someone has to eat it!
ReplyDeleteI learned that if your child chooses a costume (like a zombie) where its all makeup and no actual costume to put on, that you must tell them this several times in advance. Spending 30 minutes on their hair and makeup and making their clothes look like it has blood on it does not count to a 5 year old. "Mom, where's my costume?"
ReplyDelete12. Face paint can be removed with ease (assuming the wearer of said paint agrees) using baby oil! Yeh! No exfoliation required!
ReplyDeleteMy best friend it the Party Land Heiress. Long live Halloween!
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