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All Hallow’s Eve

Happy Halloween to one and all!

Since I know you’re all going to be madly busy getting ready for the evening’s festivities, I thought we’d just do a little fun quicky post this morning. Answer if you’ve got time, and if not, we’ll see you next week.

1 ) Do you remember your first Halloween costume?

I was four the first time my parents let me go Trick or Treating with the neighbor kids — Sandy and Nancy, I think their names were. And their little brother (he was just my age, and in fact we were great pals) Devon. Evan? Anyway, Sandy and Nancy used to babysit me, but can you imagine nowdays letting your four-year-old roam the neighborhood in the care of what must have been twelve and thirteen year olds? I tell you, it was a different world. Anyway, my costume was black leotards, black turtle neck and little black cat mask. Yep, I was a cat burglar. Or maybe I was just a cat. According to Mr. Thrilling I was Cat Woman in training, but he takes a jaundiced view, I think.

2) True or False - the candy people hand out these days is NOTHING to compare with the bags of loot we used to score back in the day.

My answer: True. Oh my. Just remembering the size of the Butterfingers and Babe Ruths and Hersey bars I used to lug home in my king-sized pillow case. In the golden days grown ups handed out full-sized candy bars! Can you believe it?

3) Favorite scary movie for Halloween viewing?

The Uninvited. I love a ghost story that includes a mystery — the best ones do, don’t they. Other good choices: The Changeling, Carnival of Souls and The Haunting. (The original.)

4) Favorite Halloween beverage?

I don’t have a favorite beverage, to tell the truth, but I’m sure I’ll need one by the time the neices and nephews are done with me this evening. This one might do provided it was appropriately spiked.

Bewitching Fruit Punch

4 cups ice cubes

1 1/2 cups water

1/2 cup fresh lime juice

1 (12-ounce) can frozen cranberry juice cocktail concentrate

2 (12-ounce) cans lemon or lime-flavored sparkling mineral water

Lime slices

Combine ice cubes, water, lime juice and cranberry juice concentrate in 5-cup blender container. Cover; blend at high speed until ice cubes are finely chopped (20 to 30 seconds).

Pour fruit mixture into serving bowl; add sparkling water. Garnish with lime slices.

(Makes 16 4-ounce servings.)

12 Responses to “All Hallow’s Eve”

The earliest Halloween costume I remember (and only because we have home movies of it) was being dressed up as Casper the Friendly Ghost. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to go trick or treating because I came down with the chicken pox. I think I was three at the time.

by Tori Lennox on October 31st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
1. I’m not sure about the first costume but I was Strawberry Shortcake many times. You know the vinyl costume with the matching mask? The one that smells like a new shower curtain liner? Yup, I was hooked. I still can’t open a new liner without thinking of Halloween!

2. TRUE…as a kid, my pillowcase was SO full that the candy would last till Christmas.

3. I like any scary movie on Halloween. I’m almost ready to introduce the classic Dracula and Frankenstein movies to my kids. They see the previews of those when they watch The Mummy.

4. Favorite beverage has to be diet coke. I’m boring, I know, but have no desire to host a Halloween party and have even less desire to plan a menu for one!

by debbie on November 1st, 2007 at 8:04 am
An Indian girl (or, to be politically correct, a Native American girl). I had a pair of beaded slippers when I was four, and I think the whole costume grew from that. I also remember that it rained that year, which made the pretty slippers (I think they were pink) very wet.

Back in those days, we used to complain about the people who gave out healthy stuff, like apples or popcorn. There were also cheapskates who tried to hand out hard candies wrapped in a napkin–one sticky mess.

by Sheila Connolly on November 1st, 2007 at 8:35 am
Casper the Friendly Ghost! How cute, Tori!

by Diana on November 1st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Debbie, remember the way those old plastic masks used to make your face sweat? I remember I had a Cleopatra mask at one point — I loved that thing and I used to wear around the house for as long as I could stand it. I tell you, Halloween is WASTED on children.

by Diana on November 1st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Oh, Shelia, isn’t that the truth? People who gave rice crispie treats and carmel or candied apples! Sheesh. The most frightening thing is we were actually allowed to eat homemade treats until I was about ten, when my parents suddenly forbade anything that didn’t come from a known source or was vacuum-sealed for protection.

by Diana on November 1st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I was a Bell Fairy a little light green tutu and carried a tiny bell to ring had glitter in my hair etc…LOL Hugs, Pamela

by Pamela on November 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
My kids were SO MAD at me cause I wouldn’t let them touch the candy until I checked it. My, how times change, eh?

We got popcorn balls. Yeah!!

by debbie on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Oh, yeah—-we got waaaaay more candy in the “good old days.” And it lasted forever. My neighborhood in Arlington, VA, was in the older part of town and there were lots of houses on each side of the street. My playmates, Nancy & Diane, and our friends used to work one side of a very long block and then the other side. Then work the side streets. In those days it was perfectly safe for little kids to be out late on Halloween getting candy. And one elderly couple gave out HUGE Hershey bars!!!

Then, I remember making costumes for all my kids out of “regular” stuff. That was part of the challenge, I thought. It challenged my creatively and theirs to come up with regualr stuff that transformed them into gypsies, queens, cowgirls, sheiks (complete w/decorative curved dagger), pirates, and so on.

And yes—-I remember when we had to start taking the kids candy to the hospital Xray scanner to make sure there were no razor blades inserted. Sheeeeeesh!! Boy, did we have it easy in “our” day.

by Maggie on November 2nd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Oh, Pamela, what a lovely little costume! I’ll be you looked adorable too. Of course all the little kids look so darned sweet — even the wickedest little witches and gruff little monsters.

by Diana on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Debbie, one sign of the times is that if I tried to eat a carmel apple now, I’d dislocate my jaw. How the heck did I ever get my mouth around those things when I was little??

by Diana on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Maggie, I know. I can’t imagine letting kids out alone now — we used to go for hours and walk literally miles. It was sooooooo cool. I’ve got a million memories of spooky little adventures on Halloween night — which is one reason I’m terrified of the thought of my nieces and nephews unsupervised (which they never are).

by Diana on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:57 pm

All Hallow’s Eve

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