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I hope you all had a spook-tacular Halloween weekend! I hope after all of the trick-or-treaters came and went they took all the Skittles and left only Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, well, that's how it goes in my fantasy.
In my case, there was not one left. Not one.
We got all cozied in for the night, lit candles on the porch, got the basket all ready …dressed up the dog.Of course.
We are among the ranks of the married-but-not-yet-with-children so we do what all perfectly normal pet-obsessed people do and dress up our 60lb mutt. In a pumpkin suit. That is significantly too small for her. It's all very charming…to us.
In our defense the kids all really liked it too (except for that one…) and while I am talking about kids I need to address this sneaky 'crusty old lady' feeling I am having. The kind that makes me want to start a sentence with “When I was a young person…”
I did not hear one joke. Not one.
They just ring the doorbell, grab candy and leave. Barely even a 'hello”! I remember working on what joke I would tell for weeks before and getting in fights with my friends over who would tell what joke and when. We practically did skits! Then there was the year my brother and I had to dress up as bags of dog food because my mom had forgotten all about making costumes, (we NEVER bought costumes. And never got sugar cereal, but that is another story) for some reason we had these huge feed-sack sized empty bags for dog food in our basement, and she just cut us arm, leg and head holes and sent us out. We really needed a good joke that year.
The point is, that's how I learned all my good clean jokes… what's an old lady to do!?
I’m dying to know what joke you removed from your FB post…
Never heard of the joke part…hmmm. We did get the full “Trick or Treat” greeting. And one 5-year-old boy from the next street over came up and said “You look like you could use some trick or treaters!” which I thought was pretty funny. Not the same as a performance, but endearing none-the-less.
Ha! Stephanie, I just spelled something wrong… no jokes! not one!
I grew up in the Des Moines, IA area where jokes are a *must* for trick or treat! When I moved to Minnesota I was shocked to find kids get candy just for showing up! Found this article in the DSM Register explaining how the “jokes” tradition in our area started! http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/99999999/ENT/41007010/Jokes-set-local-Halloween-apart
We gave out candy at my parent’s house (we don’t get trick or treaters to our apartment) but their dog would not hear of being put in a costume (she found it distressing enough that small vampires kept coming to the door). We did get to carve some pretty fantastic pumpkins though. You can check them out on my blog here: http://craftchick.wordpress.com I never told jokes when I was little, but I did sing songs (most often Pink Floyd’s the Wall – if you want to get a lot of candy, sing the Wall).
Although we have three children and my husband is my fourth child, we still had a great time dressing both our dogs in costumes! They were darn cute as Wonder Woman and a skeleton. The best part about the dogs is they don’t whine and cry when you don’t let them eat their entire bag of candy in one sitting. 🙂 ~Jen