Halloween
Happy Halloween, Y’all! May you have a spooky but safe evening of frightful and spirited fun… and may you be able to hold your apple cider, Milk Dudders, caramel apples…
Happy Halloween, Y’all! May you have a spooky but safe evening of frightful and spirited fun… and may you be able to hold your apple cider, Milk Dudders, caramel apples…
Ah, the proverbial, kid in a candy store. Clean up on aisle 6.
I would have loved to seen that be all like: bounce bounce bounce, fish fish fish, bounce bounce bounce, fish fish fish…..*ralph*….fish….fish….f…i…s…h ? hehehe
Ya’ know… one of the healthiest things a parent can do is let their kids be kids. That means getting and staying dirty for awhile, letting the dog lick them in the face, scarfing candy like there’s a prize for eating the most, sleeping in late on Saturday morning (or letting them watch cartoons at the crack of dawn), climbing up things that can be fallen off or out of, telling terrible stories and non-PC jokes, getting over-intense about things, and getting each other sick.
If you help and allow your kids do all that – in moderation – then as parents you’ll see them grow up to be happy adults who love the world, their parents, their siblings, and those around them. You’ll see fun-loving people who grew up as (for the most part) carefree kids and are ready to take on the worlds and children of their own.
I’m a father of five sons and I speak with experience.
I went to a hallowe’en wedding last night, and instead of the kids eating all the candy, one little girl proceeded to feed it all to me. D:
They had candy apples as wedding favors, too. Beautiful.
Cyhyraeth… (hee hee)… was it truly BOOtiful?
Pete… Yah… I think that you’ve explained some good parenting techniques there. All life is an experiment… and one of the first lessons is… too much of a good thing will make you sick. Better learn that lesson before the driving begins.
Heather… bouncing and cider DO NOT go together! Blecht …
Stick…. and aisle seven and eight!
It’s Halloween…
There’s no doing, like over-doing…
And you get nearly a month of recovery time until Thanksgiving arrives.
If you haven’t already, check out Google’s staff pumpking-carving doodle-video.
Also check out my Halloween Mega Light and Sound House video in the Oct 24th comments.
I’d include it here as an encore, but my links have all been embedding recently…bad links.
Happy Halloween! Vincent Price watches over you all.
Oooo, that feels creepy, Dada… I like it.
Stick… the Halloween light show makes me wonder if sucking up all that electricity was really worth it…?
brig… what makes me wonder is how the neighbors across the street feel about having the crazy amounts of multi-colored strobe lights, high powered flood lights and pumping music speakers aimed directly at them and playing the same song, over and over, night after night throughout October. That and all the daily car traffic and parking hassles the show creates.
All the same, I’m glad they did it and have watched that video oh so many times. (smile)
Ya, that’s the problem with controlling ANYTHING too much– the kid never learns how to tell him/herself ‘enough’, or even recognize when they’ve had enough.
Happy Halloween everyone! I would like to present:
The T.B. and S.B. Halloween Special
T.B.: Welcome to the party! I’ll be your host this evening. My partner is supposed to be here soon and in costume, I hope. I think that’s him now. I’d better answer the door. About time you showed up, S.B. Nice vampire costume, by the way.
S.B.?: Please, call me Dracula.
T.B.: Dracula? Oh, right! Gotta stay in character. So, ‘Dracula’, what brings you out on a night like this?
Dracula: Parties like this are so inviting. I could not possibly stay away.
T.B.: Are you saying that you don’t get out much?
Dracula: Maybe once in a Blue Moon. I was just lucky that someone visited me and told me about this party.
T.B.: What happened to him?
Dracula: He pulled up stakes and then tried to get away before I could put the bite on him. He is an A-Type person, one of my favorites. He is now my servant and still learning his place.
T.B.: Does he have a hunch?
Dracula: No, but I am trying to show him the ropes. OH! You mean a deformity! No, he appears to be quite normal. I should take him to see a friend of mine, Victor. I just may have to dig him up. He is a doctor.
T.B.: Frankenstein?
Dracula: You know him? A brilliant surgeon. He could do wonders for my assistant.
T.B.: Is your servant’s name Igor?
Dracula: That would be too perfect, wouldn’t it? No, his name is Eye Gore. Strange fellow, but his graveside manner is absolutely ghastly. He has so much work ahead of him. I really wonder if he is cut out for it.
T.B.: I’m sure he’ll do fine. Please mingle with the other guests. Over there is Lancelot. Next to him is Mary, Queen of Scotts. Can I get you some punch?
Dracula: No, thank you. I think I will have a Bloody Mary. Excuse me.
T.B.: But, the drinks are over…? Oh my…?!
Bwahh haaa haaa. Hiccup… anyone for another absinthe?
Does Absinthe make the heart grow fonder?