Halloween Safe Harbor
Posted on November 1, 2007
Filed Under marriage, kids, parenting, suburban joys, milestones, holiday fun, My Better Half |
I want to delight you with pictures of my children dressed up as Lady Liberty and a Monster of Loose Definition because they were every bit as adorable as your kids were, and, more importantly, I went through about an hour of sheer hell getting them prepared for their tour of the neighborhood and feel I deserve to show off my handiwork after battling cries of ‘I’m itchy’ and ‘I hate my nose. I can’t breath.’ I begged the Monster of Loose Definition to leave the nose on as it was the cornerstone of the costume, the anchor of monster-li-ness, but lost the skirmish as the fake snout was ripped off and the little white elastic band snapped in two. My O was left to look remarkably like my O wearing a silly wig and fake teeth and a few extra eyeballs. And G did leave on the green ‘itchy’ face paint but after she slapped and scratched and wiped at her face for two hours it all seemed to migrate. She finished the night with face paint in her hair and all over her crown and very little left on her Lady Liberty cheeks.
I know you’re dying to see what all the fuss was about but I can’t share the photo documentation of our evening right now as I have been relegated to work off the lap top computer that doesn’t house our Picasa files and therefore, until My Better Half takes a bathroom break, I can’t sneak into the office and load the photos. It’s in a imperfect system. I realize that.
I suppose I could have loaded the photos last night but we ended the evening just a little bit in the bag. Our candy panhandling came to a screeching halt when a friends and neighbors offered us safe harbor. They were showing the children Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin special and plying the adult audience with Vodka drinks. They didn’t need to ask us twice. We were soon reclining on the couch, feet up on the coffee table, two or three deep and enormously grateful.
So, you see, once we hobbled home along leaf littered streets, the trick-or-treaters gone to bed and the neighborhood darkened, I was far too exhausted to be thinking about today’s blog posting which really should contain photographs of My Better Half vomiting at midnight after consuming twelve thousand candy bars and a few cocktails. But you’ll have to use your imagination for that one. Photos of the kids will be posted later, the results of poisoning by chocolate and vodka will not.
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