HALLOWEEN UPDATE-Lost Lit Newsletter 11.17.22
Halloween in our house is a BIG DEAL, coming in a close 3rd to Christmas and their Birthday's.This year I let the girls pick their costumes. Emmy was a boring black cat. Rainey, who is obsessed with Disney Princesses, wanted to be Ariel from The Little Mermaid (mostly b/c I found this mermaid dress on a Brooklyn, brownstone stoop for FREE). Remy is wearing the rejected black wig Emmy BEGGED to have insisting that’s what black cats wear. Really it was her being jealous that Rainey got to wear a red wig.
Still, the girls had a fun Halloween while I felt sad and moody we couldn't participate in the annual Fort Greene Pupkin Dog Contest. I was too stressed and still adjusting to our family's new schedule of the girls back to school, Albert starting a full time job and me resuscitating in-person Lost Lit workshops in a new space! There was just too much transition and I didn't have the energy to sew/ make our costumes.
But in years past (especially or maybe b/c Emmy was born) Albert and I would team up and create a family themed Halloween costume. I did all the sewing and fabric work, he handled the cardboard design and glueing work. We always came up with the concept at the last minute and the week before the Fort Greene Pupkin Dog contest, we’d both be stressed out of our minds trying to finish. But on D day, we turned it out. Sigh. Here’s a nostalgic look back on all that we were.
Halloween 2017-Emmy was 14mon. old dressed as Eleven from Stranger Things and Remy was a toaster to keep her Eggo waffles warm.
Halloween 2018-Remy was a baked pugtato b/c people liked to say, he looks like such a baked potato! Emmy (2yrs old) was butter and Rainey (9mon old) was a sleeping lobster!
Halloween 2019-Remy was a butterball Turkey, Emmy (3yrs old) was corn and Rainey (21mon old) was Stove Top Stuffing. We called ourselves Thanksgiving Dinner.
Halloween 2021-We skipped Halloween 2020 b/c of Pandemic depression. But this was last year where Remy was the inspiration again as a loaf of bread b/c people liked to say, he’s such a loaf. Albert was a toast head. Emmy (5yrs old), Rainey (3yr 9mon old) and I were baguettes. Obviously we were a Bread Family.
And there you have it. Now I’m thoroughly sad. It’s the one day of the year, that I feel like a GREAT MOM. I can honor my mom who taught me how to sew. It’s the only domestic, stay at home mom thing I’m good at. I fail at cooking, baking, cleaning etc, but Halloween is when I WIN. And get the most praise and acknowledgement that almost make up for the 364 days of the year of not being appreciated enough. And so skipping out this year means I didn’t win. I failed. Ugh. BUT you just wait till next year! We’ve already started brainstorming!
