Well, honestly I think half of the reason that we dress up for Halloween, though not my favorite holiday, is because I really like tapping into our creativity to see what kind of costumes we can make from random stuff...the other half being candy! There are lots of things I don't like about Halloween, but I hope I can teach my children to make something positive and fun out of something that the world often makes corrupt...so we choose to focus on something sweet, innocent, and creative. I think the kids really love helping me make the costumes and seeing their character take shape (literally) as they stuff it or put glitter on or whatever. This year they were a caterpillar and butterfly...as Richard said, "metamorphosis." (No Ryland is not a bee as one person thought) We met up with lots of friends at Church St., the Narnia kids (Isaac, Miriam, Amariah, and Jacob - their cousins), a cute little dragon (little Will), and many others. I wish we would have gotten pictures of them and all the Church St fun.
