I like Halloween and fall in general. I like the Harvest/Fall festivals with baked goods & hand-made crafts for sale. We enjoyed pumpkin smoothies last night. As an adult, I prefer funny & clever costumes to scary ones.
A few weeks ago, DH & I went to a big craft store. They had Halloween decorations for sale. One of the decorations was a 'zombie' holding a head. That just doesn't sit well with me. I don't want headstones decorating my yard or skeltons sitting around. It brings me back to my dead baby and I don't want to think of her in those terms - creepy, scary, frightening.
She was a beautiful baby, so serene and peaceful. But I'll always be haunted by that day, the nightmare of a day when we lost our precious Sara.
Ethan's not dressing up this year. I borrowed a costume from my sister, my nephew was Bam-Bam from the Flintstones when he was 1.5 years old. Ethan didn't like it, he just liked to pet it, like a cat.
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- We lost our beautiful daughter Sara due to an umbilical cord accident at full-term. We are pregnant again, due in mid-October 2007.
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I am not enjoying my walks lately as there is a rash of yards decorated as cemeteries - RIP headstone, some even with the names of the residents on them! That is just sick! I think, 'wow, these people must never have really loved someone that died." Doesn't it at least remind them of their grandparents or something?
I dont know if Halloween will ever be a lighthearted holiday for me again...
Petting the costume, eh? That's funny.
I don't quite get it either. I guess cemeteries are supposed to be scary??? Maybe at one time (in a horror movie) they were, but being at the cemetery is peaceful for me.
Yes. Isn't it funny how something we once took as so light-hearted, ie. tombstones at Halloween is now something so "disgusting". I hate it! And now it makes me wonder how other people felt before I started feeling this way.
Yummmm...pumpkin smoothies. Think I'll have to look up a recipe!
I don't like the "dead" things about Halloween either. My MIL tried to get Justin to be a zombie or mummy the Halloween right after Lucas died and I told her I wasn't interested in the "dead" part of Halloween (and am still not). Justin is an outlaw this year.
I have a styrofoam headstone in my classroom because we have a dead word wall (words that they aren't allowed to use in their writing), but I don't like the skeletons and such.
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