I owe my love for Halloween to my mom-she would make popcorn balls, caramel apples, carve pumpkins with us, decorate the house, and even make our costumes each year. Now that I have my own household, family, job, and business, too – I wonder how she did it all.

Are you and your little ones ready for Halloween? We’ll be scrambling this weekend to decorate the front door (better late than never), unpack and set out the modest Halloween decor we still have stored, and get treats ready for Halloween. I’m hoping to finally make and decorate some sugar cookies with some Halloween cookie cutters I procured a decade ago. Each year I want to do this or do that for Halloween but it just doesn’t happen-and that’s okay. I almost succumbed to not having a costume for our baby’s first Halloween last year.  I knew I would regret that, so, in just a couple hours the night before Halloween using a pattern from an old issue of a Martha Stewart Kids magazine, I made a fish costume for the baby.  It came out pretty cute if I may say so myself!  Tip: If you need to enlarge a pattern, use wrapping paper that has 1×1 grids on the back–buy a bunch on sale after the holidays.  

On that note, we’ll be having a Halloween Costume Contest on Wed., Oct. 31st at 5pm for children ages 0-12. Kindly let us know if your little one will be participating by commenting below, via our website, FB, or calling 956-968-READ so we may have enough treats for all! Hope to see you and yours then!