What is my view on Halloween

Notice the fake blood, ax, and spikes. The days of zip up animal costumes are over. Now he is a dead biker?

Jocie and some of her friends.

The candy bowls... Tools of the devil. Just remember GREEN BEANS!

A bowl of cute little pumpkins. Aren't I festive LOL!

I contributed the bone guy this year.

Marley from the Haunted Mansion

The Grim Reaper

I will have several entries on Halloween in the days to come, but I wanted to express my thoughts on this bizarre holiday. So in a women's perspective it is so fun to dress your kids up for Halloween and see them so eager to walk door to door saying "trick or treat". At that point in their lives you can control how much candy they really have. 10 houses and they are done and they eat a piece and go sweetly to bed. You can dress them up like animals, fairies, or any other whimsical character. Well the age has come upon us where they are much to "cool" to trick or treat with mom and dad, for fear that someone might see them. LOL!!! So now we get to spend $50 on a costume they will wear one time, and then they are so over it. It has to be perfect in all ways or they will die of humiliation. Of course every boy costume now involves fake blood. Not my favorite part. Oh, and heaven forbid the cute boy down the street sees you without the cutest costume on the block. Then you have my style and Sterling's style of Halloween decorating. You will laugh but mine in very "Tai Pan" and his is very "Nightmare on Elm street." He really does have quite a touch for scaring the crud out of every 2-6 year olds that walk past our house. We are taking music, black lights, ghosts, strobe lights, and don't forget the GRIM REAPER... As for me I put out cute place mats and cute little witches at the table. So Sterling goes to the store to find scary music. When we got home we popped it in and could not believe what we were hearing. It was quickly put back in the bag to be returned. You can't listen to them so how did we know it was the devil inviting us to hell. Oh my gosh!!!! Around 3 am the next day my insomnia kicks in. I decided there was no better time to go to Wal-Mart to complete the costumes and return the "music". I ended up with 50 spooky sounds for kids. PERFECT! Oh and Elmo says BOO. More appropriate for our neighborhood. It did look great and the kids had a great night. This is the #1 reason why I hate Halloween. It is the ENORMOUS Tupperware of candy that speaks to you in the night. EAT ME!!!! EAT ME!!!! Especially for about one week a month when all you can think about is chocolate. So I had a mental talk with myself out loud. "Alyssa, ( I say) remember your goal. You are doing so well. only a few more pounds to your goal. That is great!" Then the force of the freaking chocolate walked my body into the pantry. I stared at it for a while, and then thought about how many hundreds of crunches are involved in that tiny little bite size Kit Kat. I over came the force of chocolate and ate a bag of steamed green beans. It was so exciting! NOT!!! So if any of you need to over come the force of the ridiculous chocolate bowl just remember green beans are sooo delicious.