Just to keep things interesting, we had SNOW before Halloween this year! (it is very unusual for the Connecticut shoreline to get snow this early in the year)
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| You can see the snow coming down |
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| the beginnings of a light coating of snow |
I started to worry about a white Halloween, but the weather warmed up and most of the snow in our neighbourhood melted away by Monday afternoon.
We were on a late schedule this year and got our pumpkins on Sunday for a Monday night Halloween. Didn't faze the kids. I was really brave this year and let the kids do their own carving. In years past the kids would draw the faces and Dan and I would cut. I gave each of the kids a knife. And held my breath. Yahoo! No blood!
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| scooping out the pumpkin guts and seeds |
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| carving pumpkins |
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| eerie glowing pumpkin faces |
This was Aya's first Halloween - they don't do Halloween in Japan. She seems to be having fun with it. The kids all went out trick-or-treating, in last-minute, pulled-together costumes, laughing and enjoying the holiday. I'm getting the hot chocolate ready to warm them up when they get back.
Shelley in CT
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