So I get this phone call from my gal Rachel this morning, and she says “I have something very important, can you talk?” For very important, of course I can! I drop everything for important!
She then says, “So it is cold out today, and you know that means Halloween is very soon.” We then started to talk about costumes and parties and how we just love them.
For me, my family, my closest friends, Halloween is a very important event. VERY IMPORTANT. We take our costumes VERY seriously (some are definitively more dedicated than others) but we all put in effort, ideas and execution and humor. Lucky for me, I have reaped the benefits time and time again with a mother that sews.
We don’t worship the devil or delight in dark, evil things (I SO don’t understand people that won’t celebrate the holiday at all because of fears it would make God angry or something equally silly) we just have fun. Because candy and fun and celebrating the fall are awesome things to be grateful for.
So in honor of the season, FUN and homemade costumes, I have one of my favorites from my mother’s archives (save us all, she’s discovered a scanner)
Yes, I’m little orphan Annie. I LOVED Annie, seriously. I wanted my mother to give me up for adoption so I could go live with Daddy Warbucks, in the 1920′s, and sing and dance with Ann Reinking (Hey, it could happen.)
But this, my friends isn’t the real funny here. THIS is where the funny comes from:
Years later, she made the same dress for my stepdad. And he wore it. Willingly. With little to no enticement. I have to deduct points for not shaving his legs, I mean, what’s that all about? But he is a big dude in a dress. Gotta love it. That would be my mom on the right as Daddy Warbucks. I have MUCH respect for a hot lady that doesn’t need to dress as a hot lady on Halloween to remind everyone of her hotness. She wore a pudge and had me help glue on a bald cap and eyebrows and then partied down.
I love Wayne and Becky so stinkin’ much. You two are TOO MUCH FUN.
Happy Fall!
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