Things I didn’t know about Halloween before I became a Momma Bean.
1. The sentence, “It’s pretend, Momma,” spoken through brave tears can both break your heart and make you proud at the same time.
2. Candy corn has egg in it. Damn it!
3. There’s nothing like, “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”
4. Shopping at any store must be planned with strategic precision during the months of September and October, in order to avoid incessant squeals of terror.
5. You begin to worry if your children will have nightmares because of the things they see during the day.
6. If you buy costumes on October 9 or later, you will pay at least 30% less than you would have had you not rushed to purchase as soon as the Halloween stuff materialized in the stores.
7. If you decide to wait that long, be prepared to go with your second, third or fifteenth choice in costumes.
8. You can’t call a monster a monster when you’ve been using the word to describe the adorable puppets on The Disney Channel for months.
9. They believe you when you say that nothing will hurt them.
10. Spiders are never cute.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Awww…poor little beans. Momma Bean too.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Aw, now I’m crying.
October 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
So what do you call a monster if you can’t call it a monster?
October 15th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Yeah, I made No. 6 and No. 7 mistakes last year. Thought I was being smart this year, but they’ve had to wear the costumes almost every day. One of them is wearing hers right now. Has been all afternoon. We’ll see if there’s still anything left of it by Halloween.