Ghosts & Goblins From Halloween Past
October 12, 2012
Posted By: Shaunescy
{Editor's Note: I love Halloween. At least I did in the past. This post is from the past. Excuse me while I sob in the spooky, cob-webbed corner!}
{Editor's Note: I love Halloween. At least I did in the past. This post is from the past. Excuse me while I sob in the spooky, cob-webbed corner!}
It's amazing that something I used to love now makes me melancholy.
When my kids were small, I loved Halloween.
I loved to decorate our "Haunted House."
I loved to plan frightfully fun parties.
I loved purchasing great costumes (I was a work-outside-the-home- mom, never did I attempt to make anything . I left that to the work-from-home-moms, a.k.a "The Seamstress!")
I even loved cooking ghoulish dinners, and creating slimy desserts.
Those were the days.
With two "adult" children and a 16- year old, no one plays dress up anymore.
No one carves Jack-O-Lanterns.
There are no more parties.
No school carnivals.
No frightful meals.
{Heavy. Sigh.}
In honor of Halloween - a holiday I used to love - let's take a look at the little ghosts and goblins of Halloween past.
My Halloween past.
{Don't mind me, while I sit in the corner and sob.}
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You can't really notice, but I am a "pregnant" witch!
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A favorite Halloween tradition was taking the kids out to West Side Farms in Healdsburg - the best pumpkin patch ever. It was my most favorite spot.
They had a little market where they sold garden vegetables, local crafts and goodies like jams and jellies. They also offered hayrides, had barnyard animals (probably the largest hogs on display I have ever seen), a ginormous haystack to climb - and of course miles and miles of pumpkins.
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Sadly, sometime before we left the Golden State, West Side Farms was sold to a local vintner.
Instead of pumpkins, they now grow grapes.
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I pride myself on the fact I take tons of photos, yet, after 2001, my collection of Halloween photos is sketchy, hazy - and mostly missing...
Yet, this shot from last year's Halloween party is enough to take my mind off feeling sad.
In fact, I may never be sad about my kids being grown and missing Halloween ever again.
Ever.
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What was your best Halloween costume?
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Mother of three, Katie Walters is the author of An Authentic Life , a member of BlogHer.com and is proudly invited to share weekly within the pages of Montana Parent Magazine's website.