I felt strangely calm since I was not in charge of costuming this year. This was the first year Sarah has not gone out trick-or-treating in some form. She and her friends did, however, dress up at school on Friday. Cleverly, they dressed as characters from the Clue board game. Sarah was Professor Plum.
Emily was in charge of her own costume. She decided to be a voodoo doll this year. We went to Goodwill for white shirt and pants, which she proceeded to stitch with black yarn. She attached a heart to the front and fashioned a hood with netted eyes from a pillowcase. Chopsticks served as pins and completed the illusion. Her friend, Corey, joined her for the evening, and they made a good haul from our neighborhood homes.
Costumes may have been in the hands of my daughters, but I took charge of the jack-o-lanterns. I've been wanting for a while to do a "pumpkin pi", and decided this would be the year. I also designed a bat flying out of a cave, and carved it, as well. Not too bad...
The bats have flown away now, and the Vacancy sign is gone. But the voodoo doll remains... Be afraid; be very afraid...
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