So, it's frighteningly (get it--FRIGHTENING) close to Halloween...AGAIN. I really could have sworn we just did this, and yet here we are again. So, in a burst of brilliance, I looked at the costume rack at TJ Maxx and found a Marine Corps dress uniform for Jack to wear, in just his size. Perfect. He can look just like his Daddy, handsome and ready for service. Who cares that his hair is about fifteen times too long for active duty--he will be the most dashing Marine out trick-or-treating that night. Except that now he wants to be a ninja. Womp, womp.
Same story, different costumes for Lizzie. On the same rack, I found a mermaid costume, size 6. YES!!! Lizzie asked me every. single. day. this past summer if I thought today might be the day she'd finally turn into a mermaid. She googled pictures of real mermaids (good luck with that one) and searched on Netflix for movies about mermaids. Mermaids, mermaids, mermaids. So, obviously when I came home with this gorgeous mermaid costume that screamed "I AM PERFECT FOR LIZZIE", she took one look at it and said she didn't want it. Thank you, Mommy, but I'd rather be a candy fairy, was the response I got.
Same story, different costumes for Lizzie. On the same rack, I found a mermaid costume, size 6. YES!!! Lizzie asked me every. single. day. this past summer if I thought today might be the day she'd finally turn into a mermaid. She googled pictures of real mermaids (good luck with that one) and searched on Netflix for movies about mermaids. Mermaids, mermaids, mermaids. So, obviously when I came home with this gorgeous mermaid costume that screamed "I AM PERFECT FOR LIZZIE", she took one look at it and said she didn't want it. Thank you, Mommy, but I'd rather be a candy fairy, was the response I got.
So, nine days before Halloween, I have no good plan. At what point does our family get too large to buy everyone costumes? And when on earth will they just scrap the whole trick-or-treating thing already? Holy smokes, Jack is three for crying out loud! Hasn't he done this enough times--why does it still matter so much!? But it matters. It matters a lot. They have worn the pages out of every Halloween costume catalog we've gotten every day since school started. So, what are your family's plans? Do you make pinterest-worthy costumes and dress everyone in a theme? Or do you give them an old white t-shirt, splatter some ketchup on it for blood, and call it good? As for us, we will order cheap costumes this year. And make some easy-to-throw-away-on-November-1st decorations. I'm anxious, though, to hear what others are doing!