All Saints Day

I am SO done with Halloween - Adios, vamoose - outta here.

Don't get me wrong - it had it's moments, I guess it was the night my daughter had me watch "Sleepy Hollow" with her. I actually thought the story line was ok - it's just that it over stepped my cardinal rule of "no blood - no guts."

If it wasn't for Johnny Depp fainting every five minutes for comic relief, I never would have made it through. Way different than the old folk tale.
(...When I sat down to watch, I was craving chocolate - by the end, I couldn't even look at it!)

When it was over, Melissa popped in "The Addams Family" to ease the tension, but by then I was done with the whole Halloween genre. I had to go upstairs and get my head in a different place so I would be able to sleep.

Melissa has been a dear - she orchestrated, planned, and pretty much made us a fun Halloween dinner on Sunday.

We had a yummy tortellini, served with eyeballs (my daughter-in-law's special meatballs) mini mummy dogs, (mini sausages wrapped in bread dough) and blood punch (pomegranite 7-Up topped with orange and green sherbet.) She even planned for the fact that the grans would probably shy away from the tortellini, and helped them make and decorate mini-pizzas. The dining room was draped with spiderwebs, and the table setting was a creepy candelabra with a black lace table cloth.

For desert, we had pumpkin pie and green sugar cookies, (which started out as witche's fingers, but flattened out so much after baking that they morphed into monster toes...)

The effect was awesome. (And the food - delicious.)

Fun finish to the holiday.

Hubby hates Halloween. Always has. His birthday is November 1st, and he has always resented having to have costume parties for his birthday. (Odd little man - hates dressing up.)

He usually stays up late Halloween night taking down all the decorations, so there will be none of it left for "his" day.

He was too tired to do that last night, so I removed them this morning.
We celebrated his birthday as a family last Sunday, so it will be a quiet night for him - which is just what he needs, truth be told.

The kick-off to the holiday season has begun - the radio stations are probably playing Christmas music already... (I've been avoiding them like the plague.)

I have a heavy work week ahead of me again - sure hope I am done cutting tulle!

Ha.
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