Playing Halloween dress-up

If you've hung around me long enough

then you know how much I love

to dress up on Halloween!

Yes...

I will admit I am one of those mother's

at the school Halloween parade

in full costume!  Because really....

if you can't have fun with the kids on Halloween

then what good is Halloween?

 This was last years costume...Scarlett

from Gone With The Wind!

I have the best sister in law in the world...

all I do is tell her who I want to be and

she whips it right up for me! 

 She even made my hat. 

Amazing Job don't you think



The year before that I was

Holly Golightly from

the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's

The thing I love best about dressing up

is that the kids are learning
and they don't even realize it...

one year I dressed as Jackie Kennedy..right down to

an authentic Vote for Kennedy button that the kids

and I found on ebay...they learned a lot of history that year!

And the year of Scarlett we researched
 the time period and the war..

with Audrey we focused on her life
and her charitable work with UNICEF

Now this year is already in the works...and i'm keeping it a secret

but let's just say it has something to do with literature!
The kids are wanting to be a Jedi and a Spider Princess
respectively...think I can work those into a lesson???
By the way...just what is a Spider Princess??

Here's a peek at the front porch decorations i've

been working on this week! 

Come back tomorrow for the revel..

we've gone SSSPPPOOOKKKYYY

this year!