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#93977 - 10/31/06 09:32 AM
Re: Happy Halloween
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 08/27/03
Posts: 791
Loc: Nipigon, Ontario Canada
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The weather is cool and wet here - a mix of rain, maybe snow and high winds. Around here, kids get used to picking costumes that fit over heavy jackets! I can remember taking mine around in a blizzard - so you never know what the weather will be like My youngest is all excited today about school. His first "job" as Social Convenor for Student's Council (he's in Grade 8) - they're putting on a haunted house and sock hop for the younger grades!
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#93981 - 10/31/06 11:38 AM
Re: Happy Halloween
[Re: Edelweiss]
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
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I know I will sound like a party pooper (every party has one, right??)but I just don't like Halloween. I don't mind the kids dressing up and getting candy, but I hate all the images of death and witchcraft which go with it. It originally was celebrated as the eve of All St.'s Day, a time to honor the dead in Christ. All the honor is gone and it has become a day of horror and gruesomeness. I know people say it's all in fun, but why do we want to bombard the children we love and protect with images of death? I have been downplaying it a little more each year and we will finally do what I've been trying to get the kids to want to do for years. We will stay home and rent a fun movie, have pizza and soda (they rarely get soda!), popcorn and a big bowl of candy. They can wear costumes that we've accumulated (nothing scary) and hang out where it's warm and safe. Tomorrow, we will go to mass for All Saints Day and focus on what death really means for those who leave this world in God's friendship.
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#93983 - 10/31/06 01:15 PM
Re: Happy Halloween
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Registered: 01/03/06
Posts: 195
Loc: Georgia, U.S.
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Chilly, damp, and looking like rain here Dotsie. My Grands and I did the Trick or Treating over the past weekend, in their community. More and more neighborhoods seem to be doing this, when Halloween falls on a school night. They choose the weekend before Halloween to celebrate. I'm home tonight, and will be answering the door and handing out the goodies to the young-uns in our neighborhood. We usually see a good turnout, so hopefully, the weather will cooperate. It's Halloween!
It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels, Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms.
In masks and gowns we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat.
Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! -Jack Prelutsky
Edited by Jeannine (10/31/06 01:22 PM)
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