Another Halloween has come and gone but it was definitely a good one. We got SNOW on October 30th, which caused me to utter many words that are not fit for repeating. I know I may be a Canadian and we’re supposed to be used to winter and all that but winter should not come about in October, sorry.

Luckily it wasn’t too much and most of it had melted by the time we were ready for trick-or-treating. It was quite cold but kids don’t always notice things like cold anyway so it wasn’t until they were almost done that they started realizing their fingers were half frozen.

Hayley and Breanna both chose easy costumes this year. Hayley wanted to be a cowgirl, which surprised me a little bit but she looked very cute. All it took was a pair of jeans, a warm shirt and warm coat, and one of George’s plaid shirts over the top of that (yes, the jokes are true; all Canadian Halloween costumes should be designed to fit over a winter coat, possibly a full snow suit). She topped it off with pigtails, some freckles like Jessie in Toy Story, and a cowboygirl hat and she was done. She had brought a horse but wisely chose to leave it in the car.

As for Breanna, she wanted to be a fairy. I scratched my head trying to figure out how to make her pretty yet warm, and ended up pulling one of Hayley’s pink, flowery summer dresses over her warm coat. She wore fairy wings, a tiara, and carried a wand. I also put a bit of makeup on her and she was very happy. Both girls had a great time trick-or-treating with their friends and it was fun for me to watch Breanna keeping up with the big kids this year, not needing (or wanting!) my help to go up to each door.

And me? I don’t believe in trick-or-treating without some sort of costume even I’m not the one going up to get the candy. Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year and I love to get dressed up. I usually dress as Hermione from Harry Potter but this year I decided to go with one of the more evil characters. I always said that if I was an actress I would have wanted to play Bellatrix just because she was completely insane. The role went to Helena Bonham Carter but that doesn’t mean I can’t dress the part a bit!

The principal at Hayley’s school is a very wise woman. Knowing Halloween was a Sunday this year, she took one of the floating ped days and gave the kids Monday off. No one wanted a bunch of tired and strung out kids still coming down from a sugar high sitting in their classrooms, so it worked out well. It meant we didn’t have to rush home and after trick-or-treating was done we got to spend some time enjoying ourselves at a friend’s house. Much better than trying to herd them off to bed at a decent hour!

I have a few more Halloween pictures up over here if you’d like to see them.

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I’m doing NaBloPoMo again this year, which means you can expect to read a new post here every day throughout the month of November.