Boycotting Halloween
I have never liked Halloween. I looked forward to it as a child because everyone else did but we didn’t have fancy costumes so we were always scrounging up something to wear which was stressful to me. Then we walked all over in the cold and the dark. Sure the candy was good but as it turns out candy (and other non-food food) is what kind of spoiled the last 30 years of my life. So why would I want my kids celebrating Halloween? Because everyone else is doing it is not a good enough reason for me.
I have gone along with the whole thing all these years just so I could go hang out with my good friends while our husbands tromped all over the neighborhood with the children in the cold. I went along with it so I could sneak the chocolate bars out of my children’s candy stash. Now that we have changed our diet and the kids are old enough to hide their candy from me I am done.
This is our transition year. We are having a Halloween Carnival at our home with a few friends that are as determined to be as weird as we are. I’ll admit it was kind of difficult finding weirdness at such a level but I did it. The kids are going to play games. There will be clowns and balloons and unicycles of course. We are going to have good healthy food with a few homemade, non-artificial ingredients, treats. The children can wear costumes if they want (nothing scary, complicated or expensive) but there will be no trick-or-treating and NO CANDY.
We live out in the country on a small little lane so we don’t get many treaters but I’m not sure how you do this if you live in a neighborhood with lots of children. I guess you could go out to dinner or you could hide in your basement with a good movie. It almost seems un-American doesn’t it? I think America will survive.
Next year we’re going to do something bigger and it’s not even going to have Halloween in the title. There will be dressing up but not in costumes. It will be an event that the whole family will enjoy, not just the children. There will be good healthy food and entertainment.
It is going to be the first annual Harvest Ball and you are invited. All of you. This is going to be big so I need chair people to help me plan it. I enjoyed the papers I received from last night’s post so much that I am going to have you send me a 500 word essay on why you are weird enough to help me plan the Harvest Ball of 2010.
Ok, really I will just take anyone because I have no idea how to plan something like this and I will probably change my mind about it tomorrow unless someone makes me stick to it. Whose in?
The News
This was not the big news I talked about last night. This is just something I wanted to put out there in case any of you were thinking about boycotting Halloween this year too. Do it so we can be weird together! I will post about the news as soon as possible but it’s going to be in bits and pieces because it’s too shocking for you to be able to handle all at once. Seriously.
I just had a great idea! I could host a blog carnival on Monday for everyone that decided to do something different for Halloween this year. If I am the only one blogging about this then I won’t bother but if you are interested contact me and I’ll do the carnival.
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