It's October 1st and that means Halloween has quite literally exploded in our house. I mean, we only get 31 days to enjoy the decorations, so they better go up the first day of the month. Brad pulled down all 8 totes of Halloween decor from the garage the night before and by the time he came home this afternoon, the candy corn lights were up, the eyeball tree (yes we have an eyeball tree) was decorated, and the outdoor electric jack o lantern's were lashed to the front porch.
Hey, when it blows 70mph every week during yet another random day of "Alaskan weather", you need to tie down basically everything involving outdoor decorations.
We try to make Octobers super packed full of activities. Crafts and holiday treats are my absolute favorite thing ever and so every year as the holiday season rolls around and the kids are still happy and willing to do crafts, I'm taking full advantage of it, bucko.
Today we started 31 Days of Halloween in a simple matter by spending the better portion of the day unloading totes and stringing up lights and decorations. It's fun doing this while the kids are home this year, because they would watch me open a tote and exclaim "Oh! I forgot we have that!" which made me question whether we had too much Halloween decorations, and then I laughed at myself because there's no such thing as too much.
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| Frankenstein does math lessons |
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| Decorating the eyeball tree! |
In the evening, we made our first batch of Monster Munch. This is a precise and careful concoction of....basically whatever we have laying around that can be mixed together in a sort of white trash Halloween themed Chex Mix. Today we used plain popcorn as the base, added some pumpkin spice caramel corn (that I shamelessly bought online from Target), candy corn, Muddy Buddies, and "Vampire Kisses" (Hershey kisses with strawberry filling), and purple and orange sprinkles.
Monster Munch complete, we dove into our Halloween pajamas (an annual tradition), oozed around the house pretending to be mummy's and skeletons and then watched our first Halloween movie of the year: Nightmare Before Christmas (a big family favorite) and then spent the rest of the evening singing "What's This?!" as it was inevitably stuck in our heads.
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| When mummies attack |
It's going to be a great month!
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