Happy Halloween......from Whippleville
We missed out on the aisles and aisles of candy, the costumes, the decorations, and all that goes along with the upcoming candy fest. But we did celebrate in our own way this year!
We decided not to carve the pumpkin so that I could cook it and make pumpkin bars, cookies, bread, etc. We have our priorities straight!
But we did decorate it. We did not set it outside because I didn't think our neighbors would understand and it would just leave them wondering why those weird Americans have a decorated pumpkin outside their door :)
Even though we did not go trick-or-treating, we managed to have fun. When the kids came home from school, I had the door locked and when they tried to come in, I opened the door and said, "Oh look at the trick-or-treaters we have! What are you dressed as?" They played along and I gave them some special candy from a bowl - snickers bars and sour punch candy straws.
For dinner, I wanted to have a little taste of America as well. We had corn dogs (I had to look up a recipe and they turned really pretty good) and mac-n-cheese. For dessert, I made soft-baked pumpkin cookies.
The kids had a friend from school over and she ate with us. She is from Australia and knew about Halloween, although they do not celebrate it. It was fun to include her in our talk about all things American related to Oct. 31st.
I realized that I did not get any "good" candy for myself, which, as most of you know, is one of the big perks of being a mom of kids who go trick-or-treating. No worries; my wonderful husband had to go to the pharmacy to get meds (around the corner) and he brought me back a surprise......my very own snickers bar (and it is bigger than the one I got for the kids).
All in all, I cannot complain. I am very thankful that we get to experience a new culture, with all of its customs, and keep our own special traditions of our home culture.
We missed out on the aisles and aisles of candy, the costumes, the decorations, and all that goes along with the upcoming candy fest. But we did celebrate in our own way this year!
We decided not to carve the pumpkin so that I could cook it and make pumpkin bars, cookies, bread, etc. We have our priorities straight!
But we did decorate it. We did not set it outside because I didn't think our neighbors would understand and it would just leave them wondering why those weird Americans have a decorated pumpkin outside their door :)
Even though we did not go trick-or-treating, we managed to have fun. When the kids came home from school, I had the door locked and when they tried to come in, I opened the door and said, "Oh look at the trick-or-treaters we have! What are you dressed as?" They played along and I gave them some special candy from a bowl - snickers bars and sour punch candy straws.
For dinner, I wanted to have a little taste of America as well. We had corn dogs (I had to look up a recipe and they turned really pretty good) and mac-n-cheese. For dessert, I made soft-baked pumpkin cookies.
The kids had a friend from school over and she ate with us. She is from Australia and knew about Halloween, although they do not celebrate it. It was fun to include her in our talk about all things American related to Oct. 31st.
I realized that I did not get any "good" candy for myself, which, as most of you know, is one of the big perks of being a mom of kids who go trick-or-treating. No worries; my wonderful husband had to go to the pharmacy to get meds (around the corner) and he brought me back a surprise......my very own snickers bar (and it is bigger than the one I got for the kids).
All in all, I cannot complain. I am very thankful that we get to experience a new culture, with all of its customs, and keep our own special traditions of our home culture.
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