Trick or Treat!
For the first time in over ten years, I carved a pumpkin for Halloween. I was returning from a hard day’s work of singing and dancing with children when a crop of pumpkins caught my eye. The big fat orange pumpkins were unfortunately on short supply (it was the evening of the 31st afterall) but I couldn’t say no to a squat yellow fellow with a thick skin and a flat side. To go with the pumpkin, I threw a bag full of gummi bears and a bottle of beer into the fray, then got home. Jan and I gathered our creative juices and carved a big ol’ smile outta that bucket full of seeds.
It’s the children. They get to you. Everything is suddenly a game. They’ve got me pulling out my hair and laughing all at the same time. It’s awesome. I brought some Halloween props to the kids in the week leading up to the big day. Screams of terror, screams of delight… I carried a headache with me for over a week.