This year, however, we weren't able to muster up the energy to do much of anything. Worry makes you tired, was our conclusion yesterday. We put out a pumpkin and the sound-activated spider - and of course we had treats - but we were planning to be plainclothes Halloweenies for the night.
But by late in the day I found I couldn't completely resist Halloween's lure. So I came up with this...
The ponytail "cat ears" really show off my gray roots, which is an especially nice touch, I think.
I put on a Snoopy Halloween hoodie to complete the ensemble, then I poured a glass of wine and sat in the living room to wait for the trick-or-treaters.
Halfway through my glass of wine I realized how ridiculous it all was - a 40-year old childless woman in a Snoopy sweatshirt and cat makeup sitting in the front window with a beer glass full of wine.
Yeah, I'm way classy.
But you know, I think this is what would have made me a good mom. Minus the wine part. And maybe that makes it all the more pathetic that I still do this sort of thing, but I shall choose to think that it makes me charming instead.
As the years pass it will, I suppose, just make me look really crazy - but we'll cross that bridge to the asylum when we come to it.
