I hope everyone had a superbly enjoyable Halloween!  What did everyone do to celebrate?  I decided not to give out candy this year.  Instead, we decorated the inside of the house, made spooky foods, and had friends over to watch a perfect Halloween movie- The Others- OooOoooOoooh!

Eric’s decorating was predictably fantastic.  Can you believe I had to force him to do this when he’s so obviously good at it?

Too bad about the funky light and blurriness, but you get the idea.  Our crow here is still picking at the leftovers of his most recent meal.  Num Num Num.

Likewise, our spider is taking care of a little infestation for us.  Muahahahahaha!  I really am bummed that the lights were too dim to fully capture all of the stuff we had going on, like the obligatory death bouquet in the entry way and the dramatic goth curtains that replaced our normal ones.  Well, some things are better left to the imagination.

But not this spooky Halloween CAT!  Carson, the newest member of our family, is incredibly difficult to photograph.  This is why we’ve had her for over a month and only have this blurry photo.  She makes it into the Halloween post because she’s so dark and mysterious- oooOooOoooooh!  Actually she’s not black.  She’s chocolate brown with bunny-soft gray underfur, and chartreuse eyes.  MWAH!

Sherry made the most adorable squash monsters (complete with guts!), and I made witch finger cookies (thumbprint cookies with almond nails) and goopy troll eyeballs (brownie balls dipped in sugar cookie icing and decorated with food coloring).  Oh and we also had dragon scale nachos and goblin blood cocktails made with Sherry’s foraged-grapes grapejuice! I’m sad I didn’t get photos of everything.  I was too busy stuffing my face.

Yep, a pretty great Halloween.  I kind enjoyed not giving out candy.  Since the lights were off and we had no outdoor decorations we were able to get through the entire movie without the dogs barking at trick-or-treaters.  Sadly however, I just discovered that one of the local schools banned any Halloween dress or activities!   I mean, what country do we live in where a principal can just cancel a holiday?!!!  I have to say, I had been considering sending my kids to that school one day, but this is a deal breaker.  There’s something wrong with the world when a construction paper jack-o-lantern can get you in trouble.  I hereby vow that my children will have Halloween every year, complete with costumes and candy, until they’re too old for trick-or-treating. Private school is looking pretty good at the moment.

What about you all?  Did you dress up?  Raise your hand if you had an awesome Halloween- (!- that’s me raising my hand).  Tell me all about your Halloweens!