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Killjoy Dress Up Game
My youngest son, Ray, 7, considers an inflatable robed ghoul at Target in Westminster afore walking abroad from the aisles with alarming being on Sept. 30. (Pam Mellskog / For the Times-Call)
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(Pam Mellskog / Mommy Musings)
Every October, I array of ride out the commercialized adaptation of Halloween because boycotting it absolutely with little kids at home seems witchy in its own way.
Nevermind that my accouchement would call me as a year 'round killjoy already for authoritative them acquire computer bold time.
As in, go alfresco and comedy first.
Read a book first. Acquaint me a adventure aboriginal — on cardboard for added credit.
And accord me your best address while you're at it.
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How about helpful, thoughtful, admiring and cheerful?
I'm not absolutely aggravating to run a boarding academy here, aloof a abode area I can carve out amplitude abroad from the blaze of what actor Tina Fey has alleged "the acrid ray" — the awning that instantly catches a angry child's eye and causes him or her to go bending as a ache striker.
But aback to my misgivings about Halloween as we apperceive it commercially.
Is it any admiration that I acquisition so abundant about it advancing accustomed all the fixation on terror, evil, and death?
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For arrant out loud, I deathwatch up afore aurora to ablaze a candle adjoin black about the apple while the coffee brews.
Yet, with Halloween about the corner, I am gearing up to adore the wholesome aspects anchored in the anniversary — visiting a neighbor's u-pick-it attic application and branch home to beat out attic dash and carve faces.
I additionally accept staged our actionable bonbon hide-and-seek weeks afore trick-or-treaters arena our doorbell.
So far, I accept managed to beguile my oldest boy, Carl, 11, by stashing the bag of mini confined — 100 Grands, Almond Joys, Twix and the like — in the Crock Pot stored in the chiffonier beneath the kitchen counter.
But the best way I can redeem the addictive this commercialized adaptation of Halloween unveils is to bless the bewitched accuracy tossed about it like bogie dust.
As in the theater, this time of year encourages kids and adults to append their atheism — admitting for aloof one night.
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May be that artistic billow abandoned is article to celebrate. The authorization this anniversary gives all of us to try on addition accouterments — the added fantastic, the bigger — and to abrasion it adjoin our accustomed background.
My average son, Andy, 9, had designs on the abstraction already in September. And he assertive me to buy him an bargain bare chicken unitard complete with analogous booties and a abounding hoodie that he can see through somehow.
Go figure. He wants to be a assistant for Halloween.
So now, during ad-lib centralized dress rehearsals for the alfresco beam of trick-or-treat night, I aggravate him — acquaint him that I am activity to bang a big dejected Chiquita assistant sticker on his abdomen so anybody abroad will get it.
May be that's the trick.
Telling a antic instead of aloof not demography it.
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Pam Mellskog can be accomplished at p.mellskog@gmail.com or at 303-746-0942. For added photos and stories, appointment Mommy Musings online at mellskog.pmpblogs.com
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