Oct 13 2008
My Halloween Top Three’s
Favorite Costumes:
Mine:
1) Kitty Cat
2) Angel
3) Witch (though I do the twirly dress/feather trimmed hat version, nothing scary for this kindergarten teacher!)
Others:
1) High school friends waaaaayyyyyy back when dressed as the
Ghostbusters
2) My daughter as a bride and my eldest son as a Star Fleet officer
3) A former student dressed as the Big Bad Wolf (he wore a baseball cap on which his mother had glued fake brown fur and huge googly eyes, wool ears, wool teeth hanging down from the brim, etc.)
Favorite movies:
1) Sleepy Hollow (a la Johnny Depp)
2) Something Wicked This Way Comes
3) Lost Boys (though I enjoy the vampire genre year ’round)
Trick-or-Treat Candy:
1) Peanut M-n-M’s
2) Smarties
3) Old fashioned bubble gum
Family events/traditions:
1) buying pumpkins and carving jack-o-lanterns
2) decorating the house with our favorite figurines and decorations
3) trick-or-treating with the kids
Halloween songs:
1) Five Little Pumpkins
2) Purple People Eater
3) Humming “La dah dee dee dah dee dee, la dah dee dee dee dah abracadabra…”
Halloween recipes:
1) Pumpkin Pie
2) Popcorn Balls/Chex Mix (I’ll make popcorn balls one year, Chex Mix the next…)
3) Spiced Pumpkin Cookies
Crafts:
1) Wreaths
2) Banners
3) Magnets
We have a toddler after an eleven year hiatus, which means I get to be “Mommy” for a bit longer instead of just “Ma” or “Mom” or the dreaded “Yes, *sigh*, THAT’S my mother…” A few more Octobers of contemplating whether or not to make trick-or-treating costumes by hand, or to give in to the aisles and aisles of alter-ego personalities available at Walmart (I’ve discovered Old Navy’s costumes are cute, cute, cute!). More years of watching Halloween-themed videos (now dvd’s), reading Halloween books to someone other than my students, and using pumpkins for
of course! Decorating with many of 
