I could not possibly care less about Halloween and wouldn't do anything to acknowledge the day if our church didn't have a harvest festival that we enjoy and help with. Even then, I don't dress up. Boring, I know.
However, all the little Ws have enjoyed carving pumpkins at some point in their childhood and Tim doesn't mind helping them with the process. This year Naomi and Teebs wanted to do it, so they hunkered down at the table with Tim a few days before Halloween and got busy.
We lit them for a few minutes before the kids hit the sack, long enough to take a picture.
The same two little Ws decided to dress up for the harvest festival at the last minute, so they ransacked the dress-up bin and went as a police officer and dancer. There is no rule about what kind of costume to wear, but it's a church event and there are plenty of biblical costumes. On the way to church I asked the kids, just for fun, if they could put a biblical spin on these two costumes. We came up with Naomi being one of women of I Samuel 18 who was dancing in celebration of David's conquest and Teebs being a Pharisee, an enforcer of the law. Not too shabby for unplanned costumes and thinking of a biblical spin on the fly!
As we've done for over a decade, lunch on November 1st was candy. Lots of candy. Devon worked half of the event, but still managed to come home with 14 ... 14... pounds of candy. Ay yi yi! Check out his pile.
To put that in perspective, Silas had none (our kids work one shift once they hit junior high and both shifts in high school), Naomi had 3 1/2, and Teebs had 2 1/2. Needless to say, Devon didn't get to keep it all. He'd been hopeful we'd let him keep it all, but wasn't surprised that we didn't. He didn't let his disappointment affect his attitude and we still let him keep more than the other kids. That boy has some refined candy gathering skills!
Anyway, we gave Silas part of Devon's excess, which was an unexpected treat for him, and they all pigged out on candy for lunch. After doing a fair amount of trading, of course.
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I love the biblical spin on the costumes.
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