Halloween posting a week late

I know it’s customary to blog about a holiday right after it has passed, but as you can see, I’m a bit late in blogging about our Halloween. Being behind seems to be par for the course for me. I’ve yet to start a baby keepsake album for EB (should’ve started that four years ago), and I’ve pretty much given up on putting together our wedding album (should’ve done it eight years ago). Anyway...


This is the first year that EB got excited about Halloween. And when I say excited, I mean really, really excited. As in she’d been talking about it for months, picked out her Spider Girl costume back in August and practiced her Spider Girl “look” for weeks. Just take a look at her. This Spider Girl is fierce!

Don't mess with me!

It was well worth the wait, because we literally celebrated Halloween for a week straight.  It started with her friend’s Halloween party, followed by Halloween festival at her school, then trick-or-treating at my work, then Boo at the Zoo, then the grand finale…Halloween night. I was a bit worn out by the time Halloween actually rolled around, but EB was still so pumped that K and I couldn’t help but join in the fun with our impromptu costumes.

The end result of our week: candies, candies and more candies.

We’re not big candy eaters (at least I’m not; K loves candies, all the more reason to get it out of the house). And considering we only allow EB one or two candies a day, it would take probably a year to polish this off. So I did a search on the Internet and stumbled upon Operation Shoebox, an organization that aims to support our troops who are deployed overseas by sending them care packages, letters and moral support. They accept Halloween candies, so we allowed EB to keep one pumpkin-bucket worth of candies, and give the rest away to this organization. In case you would like to donate your candies, here is their mailing address:

Operation Shoebox

8360 E Highway 25

Belleview, FL 34420

operationshoebox.com

Hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween!