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Fear the Bunny

Posted on 30. Sep, 2008 by admin in After The Bubbly

Every year my kids ceremoniously choose their latest Halloween costumes. And every year since they were about four they have insisted that those costumes be different than the ones they wore the year before. As if anyone would ever remember. But okay. Off we go to Wal-Mart to find something good. Wait a minute – we don’t do that at all. Turns out I’m WAY too cheap to shell out $20 each year for some half-sewn wad of polyester. No, it’s a rare day that we buy off-the-shelf goblin attire. Usually I send my children into the closet with a pair of blunt scissors and a Sharpie.

“Be creative,” I say. And they are. One year my son made a convincing Luke Skywalker from nothing but a scrap of burlap and the core from an old roll of wrapping paper. My daughter looked just like Laura Ingalls Wilder in a dress made from pillow cases and some strategically placed pot-holders. They have paraded the neighborhood as fairies, witches, ghosts, and pirates.

But last year my girl settled on her dream costume long before we ventured into the closet.

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