Spooky….

Oh, yeah, baby! It's that time of year! HALLOWEEN! The time when we hang our ghosts from the mantle, and the Great Pumpkin comes down the oven vent and fills them with candy. Oh, wait. That's not right.

The time when we leave pumpkin pie under our pillow, and the Squash Fairy comes and leaves us crisp dollar bills.

No?

The Pumpkin Bunny?

Well, at any rate, it's my favorite holiday! And the kids, too, although they get more stash at Christmas.

Yesterday, we started decorating (my birthday is the end of September, and I just cannot do Halloween before that. The kids wanted October 1, but we were on the road. So yesterday it was.) We're not finished. Finishing will require a trip to one of the Halloween Super Stores that move into abandoned stores for the season. We try to add something cool each year. Last year was a sound activated witches broom. Much fun.

Right now, we have a graveyard starting in our front yard, a ghoul hanging on our door, a light up pumpkin snow man, a ghost (who would light up if the light bulb wasn't broken) and some glowing skeleton heads. I have a million orange lights to hang, but this house is brick and my step stool isn't tall enough to reach the trim. That means I have to dig the ladder out (and that meant we didn't do it on Sunday).

And, of course, there are the MOVIES!!!!!! Don's on a roll DVR'ing the classics for us to watch with the girls (He watches Abbott & Costello Meet Frankestein with them every year). This year our big Halloween movie with our bookclub is Peter Straub's Ghost Story. Haven't seen the movie in years, so I can't wait…and the book (about 100 pages in) is fabulous.

Do you love or hate Halloween? Any fun traditions? What's your favorite holiday?

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