October: Football, Halloween and Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

Can you believe its October already?  I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that its the 10th month of 2013.  Around here its football 5 days a week and I am constantly being shown pictures and given suggestions for creating 'THE BEST' Halloween costume EVER.  It gets harder and harder to out due myself each year.  Of course I love a challenge.

I remember the days where I spent weeks planning and finding things around the house or at the local Goodwill shop to make my costume.  The fact that my kids want me to make their costumes is probably my own fault...I'm awesome at making them! Of course I do get a little tired of doing everything around here. Of course if I am going to give up something it would be doing dishes or cleaning toilets.

Halloween is a chance to be creative, collaborate with my kids on a project and make those store bought costumes look like...well...crap.  So I will be working on making one son look like an assassin from 16th century Italy and another like some other video game character that I know carries a bat.  Before you think or say that these are not appropriate costumes, I would like to mention how many grim reapers and Freddy Kruegers I see every Halloween.

As for myself I am still deciding.  I was thinking about Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid or a generic bar wench (both accent my assets and hide my flabby thighs).  My psycho-political option for a costume is to hang a closed sign around my neck and when people ask what I am I can say the 'Federal Government'...hahaha....yes I laugh at my own jokes.

Well, I hope you are having a good time deciding on Halloween costumes and if it is a holiday you do not partake in I hope that you are enjoying the crisp Fall air.  I now need to fashion a spauldron from a belt I got at Goodwill and make a cape from a red sheet, and a shirt with billowy sleeves and a gauntlet...wow I have a lot of work to do.  Moms move mountains one stitch at a time.