Usually Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. I’ve said it here before: no presents, no cooking, just wild costumes and roaming the streets after-dark. Is it wrong for a mother to take more pleasure in her own Halloween costume than her children’s? This year I was a Rockette-esque Showgirl in a flouncy hot-pink taffeta [...]
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Halloween Hangover…
November 1st, 2010 No Comments
Last night we had our first true Trick or Treating experience. For the past few years we’ve marched as a family in the Halloween parade downtown, rather than going door-to-door. This year, we did the holiday with all guns blazing. Carved SEVEN jack 0′lanterns. Bought two bags of candy for our nonexistent trick-or-treaters. Went to [...]
Tags: candy · Halloween · trick or treat
Ruby Diamond Fairy
October 21st, 2010 1 Comment
Enchanted Halloween! Once again, I was a fairy. The Ruby-Diamond Fairy, to be precise, christened by my children. I love the transformative potential of Halloween, how even Moms can get out of their mundane, schlep-around identities and into something magical, sparkly and, dare I say it, sexy. C. was an Emily Fairy and A. was a [...]
Tags: Enchanted Halloween · fairy · Halloween
Arts & Craftsy Mama
October 6th, 2010 3 Comments
Some things come naturally to me: hiking up a mountain, say, or kicking up into a handstand. But hosting a playdate AND making Princess Headdresses for three small girls, this is not my natural maternal state. I would rather go out and dig in the garden, weed the flowerbeds, run in the woods. I get [...]
Tags: Amanda Soule · arts & crafts · Creativity · family · Halloween · Martha Stewart
A Tale of Two Fevers
November 9th, 2009 No Comments
Last weekend I got Halloween fever and went to 4 parties and a parade. This weekend I got a real fever and stayed in bed. Last weekend I was a wood fairy, accompanied by a pink toddler fairy and a brown deer. This weekend I was a sad, sick, sneezing Mommy. Last weekend I ate [...]
My Treat
October 26th, 2009 2 Comments
Call me a pagan, but Halloween is my favorite holiday. The veil between the worlds grows thin in late autumn, and stillness descends on the land. There’s a sense of anticipation in the dusky shadows, the flickering pumpkins. For one night, we can transform ourselves into anything. I love dressing up. Halloween is the only [...]
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