Halloween. Is. Almost. Here. I feel like Halloween is the gateway to Christmas, and for that, I love it. But I also love it because my kids love it. Before I had kids, I wasn’t super excited about Halloween – we didn’t get trick-or-treaters where we lived at the time, and it just seemed like …
When I was a thirteen, my grandmother took me to England. One of the things that made a deep impression on me was visiting the Tower of London. Not because it was scary and people were tortured and beheaded there and there were massive displays of medieval weaps. I mean, that was cool and all, …
When I was a kid, I’d go to my Gramma Polly’s house the week before Halloween and help her stuff treat bags to hand out to all of the trick-or-treaters. In my mind, I did this every year and stuffed tons of bags. In reality, I probably helped her a few times and judging by …
True story: One Halloween, when I was in the third grade or so, my mom decided that she would not pass candy out that year. Because we lived in a neighborhood with only a handful of trick-or-treaters, most of the neighbors gave us full-size candy bars, or poured handful upon handful of candy into our pillowcases. The same …
Before I had kids, I didn’t care much for Halloween. But now that I have two little ones? It’s so much fun. SO MUCH FUN, y’all. I am reminded about how much *I* loved Halloween as a kid – and how it was so special to spend a day with my grandmother, putting together fun …
Today I have some free Halloween printables for you, and it’s all because of Jack. Last year, Jack told me that we didn’t have enough Halloween decorations. That our house didn’t measure up to his standards of appropriate Halloween decor, which apparently include inflatable pumpkins on the front lawn, ghosts hanging from our tree (which …
