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Addams Family Photo

Addams Family is a thing around my house. I have a child who will watch the movie all year long. Another child who will not and DID NOT WANT ANY PART of this picture. He was so grumpy that it made the  picture  all the better.  We just rolled with it.  If you look close you will see a doll with no head.  The doll just happened to break (it is like 30 something years old). I had every intention of fixing that doll.  But, it has been like 6 years and I still have not fixed it, yet.  This  picture  is one of my  favorite  things.  I had originally thought I would take a new one every few years. I  can't  do it! I love this one so much that I want to put it up every year.  #halloween #spooky #addamsfamily 

Halloween Decorations Set UP

 I begin decorating for Halloween in September.  I call it Septober.  It takes many weeks to unpack, unwrap and set up.  My kids love it (not).  Every year they ask "Why?" and my answer is "because I love it!"  It takes a full day to get the bins out of the garage and bring them into the house.  There have to be at least 30 bins out there. There are also boxes of items that don't fit in bins.  Every year more is added.  I start planning and preparing the new items in the summer.  We do a cookie party every October so friends and family can come walk through the house and see all the new items.  A hundred or so families come and walk around.  I make around 450 Halloween cookies.   One of my favorite decorations is my orange tree.  I fill it with purple lights, spiders, cauldrons, witch hats, skeletons, etc.  (Sneak Peak I have purchased a black tree from a garage sale for this year). My second favorite is decorating my hutch.  My third favorite is decorating the

Sanderson Sisters Walk The School Halls

Every October our local schools have their parent/teacher conferences.  Teachers spend extra hours at the schools talking to parents.  They spend extra time gathering papers for a portfolio and printing report cards.  It is definitely a job I am not cut out for.  But what I am cut out for is giving candy away.  So, I spend a couple hours putting on make-up, putting on a wig, and dressing up like Mary Sanderson.  My friend, Beckie, dresses up like Winnie Sanderson. My daughter, Brytnee, dresses up like Sarah Sanderson.  Then we walk the halls of a couple of the local schools giving candy to the teachers and staff.  I think the teachers enjoy it.  I know I do.
Until I was eleven years old, I lived in Preston, Idaho. When I was growing up, Halloween was a town event. My mother worked at the local bank. Everyone who worked there dressed up for the entire day. They also had a guessing candy game. One year I had the closest number of guesses and brought the jar home. Not only were employees at the bank dressed up but also at Kings, gas stations, the library, grocery store, etc. The children wore costumes to school for the whole day. School parties were filled with games and treats. Then at night we went trick or treating. And I mean the real way! Without parents, walking miles and miles with a pillow case, knowing which houses gave out the BIG bars, and coming home after dark. I remember my mom asking where we went and when I told her she was surprised because that house was 10 miles away (one way) from where we lived. Then came the sorting! There was the “I like pile” (snickers, milk duds, dots, etc) the “I dislike pile” (smarties and dumb dumb