Hope everyone is having a fantastic Halloween! In honor of the holiday, I have decided to list ten memories from Halloween and offer a giveaway. Sound fun? I thought so!
1. Dressing up. Running around in my costume days before Halloween. Wishing the day would hurry up and end so I could put on my costume. Hating the curls and face make-up required for costumes. Oh - and those Disney store costumes that were cheaply made (yet expensive), scratchy, uncomfortable, and see through. Soooo many costume memories!
My most memorable costumes were: pumpkin (age 2), Minnie Mouse (age 5), Belle (age 7), a 50s girl with a handmade poodle skirt (age 15), and Lady Guinevere with a handmade dress (age 20).
2. Watching Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Charlie Brown Halloween special.
3. Dumping all of my candy on the floor and sorting by color and type. (If there were 5 skittles that included 2 purple and 3 green, I had to eat one of the green next to even out the numbers.)
4.My parents eating my candy and making me mad in the days following Halloween…
5. Trying to hit as many houses as possible before my parents forced me to come home. I could only be out from 6-9, and the faster I walked the more houses I could visit, and the more candy I received. Unfortunately I had parents and a much younger brother trailing behind…
6. Carving the pumpkin. Always a momentous occasion.
7. Picking out the pumpkin. It had to be the biggest, prettiest pumpkin at the store or pumpkin patch.
8. The picture. There is nothing quite as irritating as having your picture taken in your costume prior to being allowed to go trick or treating. Eating dinner was also annoying. Can't we just go??!?!
9. As I got older, loud, fraternity parties in which the girls came in … less and all of the drinking. And the biggest haunted maze ever. It was totally not my thing.
10. Fondue night with friends. Celebrating without going out. Relaxing and fun with delicious food. It was a shame that had to end.
*11. And finally … to our current tradition of going out to eat somewhere new on Halloween, somewhere we have never been before. This is finally some small part of Halloween I can look forward to without a candy sugar high, dressing up like a prostitute, or worrying about my lack of kids.
GIVEAWAY
Enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win one of the two shots I have as well as some candy. After all, you can't celebrate Halloween without candy… :)
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** This giveaway is not sponsored by anyone, and the products were purchased with my own money. All opinions are my own.
