Spooky

Yes, yes, its not quite Halloween yet, but this week we've been pulling out all our gothic stops.

We had Nell over for cake and birthday presents. Now that she's out fending for herself, she is in dire need of The Cook's Companion. As Nell says, she lost custody of Stephanie in the property settlement, but that may have been a good thing in the long run, as she is now the proud owner of the pretty rainbow stripe version and the reinstated missing 20grams of butter. I also decorated her cake in her fave motif, aka Emily the Strange , another queen of red and black. Although as you can see towards the bottom of the cake I ran out of black stuff.


Then last night (Friday) the Climber and I went to a Halloween Party with all the boys from Prep T. Apart from our hostess, I was the only other mother to dress up! She is really into Halloween and had all these spooky toys like a popcorn bowl with a hand in the middle that grabs you when you dip for popcorn. She'd done thematic food like ghost meringues on sticks and a black-spider cake that oozed green pus (jelly) when we cut it, the whole house was decorated with scary stuff and she told spooky stories and they played ghostly games like "Wrap the Mummy up like a mummy". (My team wrapped right over my face so I got scented toilet paper in my mouth, yecchh). And then she took us all out trick-or-treating which would have been more fun if it hadn't been so bloody cold out. We came home with an enormous stash of goodies, which even when split generously 16 ways there was excess. I guess Fixit and I'll have to eat a lot of it for him, I really don't want my kids having that much sugar..sigh.

This is the Climber getting ready

And this is the face of the one who was left behind ...

and this was the ghostly howl that followed us as we drove away.

" ..I want to come toooo... come back ....I want party tooooooo..."