Which Witch is Which?

Halloween, circa 31 BT (31 years Before Taite):

 

Halloween 2008:

Yep, that’s me in the first picture, and Taite in the very same witch costume that my mom made for me when I was 6. Only she’s 4 and it fits her perfectly. She is tall, but not an Amazon…I was just a total shrimp until jr. high.

So many memories come flooding back when I look at that old photo – the house I grew up in, trick or treating with my brother, Halloween traditions that my siblings and I still observe 35 years later. I was practically transported right back to 1973, watching my little girl run from one door to the next in that costume (which of course turned me into a big, goofy, sentimental, flashbacking faucet of tears for a minute). You betcha I’ll be scrapping that old photo with at least one of these! The hard part is going to be narrowing down what I want to say.

Reece dressed up as a Guitar Hero...

…something I was decades away from ever hearing of back in 1973. Shoot, I was still 4 years away from learning to play Pong and Space Invaders on my state of the art Atari game system.

I love that Reece’s costume is so pop culture. I wonder what his kids will think of it.

Kendra is a last-minute kind of costume girl, and as I was heading out to a Halloween party with the little ones, she was scrounging around for random objects to throw together some sort of ensemble for hanging out with her friends and watching scary movies. She is too old to trick or treat now, which is kind of sad, so I started a new tradition with her this year – “Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet” Halloween pedicures. Brilliant, don’t you think?

I am off to spend our “freebie hour” hiking with the fam today. I was tagged by the fabulous Stacy J, so tune in tomorrow for some riveting randomness about me. I will draw a winner from the What's in Tami's Shopping Bag? post tomorrow, too…so if you haven’t left a comment yet, there’s still time to enable me with your latest fantastic finds.