I have this dream that one year, I will make beautiful homemade costumes for my children for Halloween.
I envision that on October 1st, we will come up with a plan. It will be a project of love where I spend one on one time with each child. Together, we pick out a pattern, cut out the fabric and sew it together. I will cherish each moment together and they will get great joy and love out of their costume.
Then I remember I don’t know how to sew, I cannot craft to save my life and I am never ever that organized.
The truth is every year, Halloween sneaks up on me and leaves me scrambling to find the exact costumes that the kids want. And it must be the exact. right. costume. or there will be tears, yelling, gnashing of teeth and yeah, the kids will be upset too.
I will try the stores, and of course, they have nothing left but some sad Snoopy Dog wanna and sexy Strawberry Shortcake that would make a whore look like she was wearing too many clothes. So I continue my search on the internet. Thankfully, the internet gods smile on me and I can find the exact costume that each child wants and I only have to spend their college funds in shipping cost to get them here on time.
Oh the procrastinator in me does not like holidays.
Once the costumes arrive and the children are happy, the only thing left to do is to put them on.
I have decided yet which is more difficult, dressing children in costumes or in winter snowsuits.
(video can be seen here)
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I don’t think we’ve bought a costume yet. No kidding. The girls love dressing as princesses and we have a suitcase full of dress up clothes. I’m not sure they even know that they can be purchased every year..so don’t tell them…please!
Ah I am sort of very happy that I do not have to still organized halloween too
They look so happy with their costumes! Have a great Halloween!
The procrastinator in me doesn’t like holidays either.
When I was a kid, my mom (who had worked as a seamstress) made beautiful & clever Halloween costumes for us, but I wanted a store-bought one just like the other kids had.
I wrote about a flood for Mama Kat this week: http://proartz.blogspot.com/2012/10/september-2004-my-worst-month-ever.html
I have a rule here no talking halloween till after Thanksgiving because they start in septemeber and change their minds evey couple of days and then you just get confused with who is being what. So on thanksgiving they decide what they’re going to be then it’s set in stone… then I spend the next couple weeks going crazy looking for items as they never pick something easy to find. This year al is going to be a beauty contestant as she saw Miss Congeiniality this year and J wanted to be a ninja ghost.
Yeah. Ninja ghost is going to be soooo easy… not. *sigh*
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“The kids will be upset too”–lol!
I loved your video! So adorable. It brought back memories of watching the Benny Hill Show with my dad when I was a kid, so I half-expected to see your kids start chasing around scantily-clad nurses.
Cute! And yea- I don’t do the homemade thing either and I am crafty!
Lucas was that pumpkin a few years ago. Very cute video
They are adorable!!
I procrastinate too. But thankfully I already had a costume for K so I just had to figure out the boys, this year.
I love the vlogging follow-along idea! And I think those costumes are great. Really, anything that gets you candy can only be awesome.
Again, you are too funny. The video was brilliant!! Can’t wait to see what you post tomorrow after the fact. Happy Halloween
They are so cute and you are hilarious as always. My video included a few extra costume changes, I still don’t think my kids have decided what they are wearing and we are trick or treating in a few hours.
Awesome vlog!!! Your kiddies are so cute!
What shocked me this year is how far in advance you have to buy the damn costumes. I’m going to have to set a prompt on my iPhone for next June to make sure I actually find something half decent for next Halloween.
Oh my word they are cute. May we come over to play?
Here’s the thing about sewing costumes… it is a HUGE pain in the ass. After four years of making them myself David has forbidden me from ever sewing costumes for the kids again. It was that torturous. Now I just buy them in September and they are stuck with whatever they chose.
“I don’t wanna be a princess. I hate them.” Bwuahahahaha! I love little girls. This was a cute video.
Does Clare really hate princesses? Why is she so angry????
“I have decided yet which is more difficult, dressing children in costumes or in winter snowsuits.”
LOL Where I live, some Halloweens require costumes that go over snowsuits!
Hilarious.
I would pick putting my kids in costumes over fricking snowpants, boots, and mittens ANY DAY OF THE WEEK and twice on Thursdays.