I am a sinner!

[jane]

I just bought keepler fudge stripped cookies, hershy kisses and orange frosting.

I am going to make witch hats for my son's kindergarten class.

I can not believe it.

I do not remember the last time I even said the word Halloween for fear I was going to shrivle up and die.

I even bought clear plastic gloves from the hairdressing place. I am going to put a gum drop in each finger tip and fill up the rest with popcorn and put a spider ring on its finger for their party......

my goodness.

maybe I have been turned over to Satan.:eek: :p :p


jane

[profnachos]

Where's your broom?

I just bought keepler fudge stripped cookies, hershy kisses and orange frosting.

I am going to make witch hats for my son's kindergarten class.

I can not believe it.

I do not remember the last time I even said the word Halloween for fear I was going to shrivle up and die.

I even bought clear plastic gloves from the hairdressing place. I am going to put a gum drop in each finger tip and fill up the rest with popcorn and put a spider ring on its finger for their party......

my goodness.

maybe I have been turned over to Satan.:eek: :p :p


jane

[Theodora]

All of this sounds like special memories in the making to me! Congratulations on your creativity! ENJOY a bit of fun...I'm guessing your son surely will, thanks to you and your good efforts.

Blessings to you and yours!

Theodora

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I just bought keepler fudge stripped cookies, hershy kisses and orange frosting.

I am going to make witch hats for my son's kindergarten class.

I can not believe it.

I do not remember the last time I even said the word Halloween for fear I was going to shrivle up and die.

I even bought clear plastic gloves from the hairdressing place. I am going to put a gum drop in each finger tip and fill up the rest with popcorn and put a spider ring on its finger for their party......

my goodness.

maybe I have been turned over to Satan.:eek: :p :p


jane

[Voyager]

Go for it Jane. Halloween is harmless. It's just the scapegoat holiday for religious fanatics. Kind of like birthdays and Christmas are for Jehovah's Witnesses. They've all got to have a day or two each year to abstain from "worldly carnality" to make them look more holy than the average heathen.

My daughters love Halloween. Why should I deprive them of it? It's all innocent fun. I've yet to see a demon on October 31st in my neighborhood, and we've been allowing the girls to trick-or-treat for seven years now. I saw a lot more demons on the platform at my former church every Sunday than I will ever see while trick-or-treating with the kids!

:D

[Leslie]

Jane, the hats sound cute! Where do you put the orange frosting? Is that the glue for the kisses?
I'm happy to be giving my kiddos the fun of the costume day, too!
Tonight was "dress up like a Bible character" at the children's Bible club. My son dessed up in his Tigger costume as one of the tigers from the ark!! :)

[Carmen]

I can't bring myself to do any of that stuff yet, don't know if it ever will be possible, though I do let the kids dress up for Carneval. Halloween was unknown here even just 4 years ago when we arrived. Now the stores have realized the marketing potential and almost all of them decorate and sell appropriate products, and mothers organized the first halloween party here in town 2 years ago. I received the first trick or treaters in Germany about 6 years ago. I feel indignant at having to waste more precious time and money for a new holiday that is not even traditional here. It is just a marketing gag. The day of the dead is more the thing here, everyone puts fresh flowers on the graves of their loved ones and eats "Pane dei morti", the bread of the dead. It tastes rather like the German Lebkuchen, heavy, dark, sweet and Christmas-spicy. I always make sure we get some of that.

Sorry about ranting. If you can still have fun with it then I don't blame you. I don't call you a sinner. Have fun, dearie! :)

[Jerry]

maybe I have been turned over to Satan.:eek: :p :p


jane
No,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Count Chockula,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BLAH !!!!!!!!! :D Have fun paying homage to the vegitable orb :D
Love Jerry

[Hope 98]

I gotta say something here.

I really think that some folks make way too much out of halloween in the sense that it's "Satan's day" or anything like that. Generally speaking - I don't object to it.

But this year - and only this year - I feel like I need to NOT observe it. I can't give a good clear reason for that. I don't expect anyone else to feel the same way.

I think I could say I'm feeling convicted - though I hate how that word can be thrown around. On the other hand - it's a very personal and present sense of what I need to do.

Does that make any sense to anyone?

[Jerry]

I gotta say something here.

I really think that some folks make way too much out of halloween in the sense that it's "Satan's day" or anything like that. Generally speaking - I don't object to it.

But this year - and only this year - I feel like I need to NOT observe it. I can't give a good clear reason for that. I don't expect anyone else to feel the same way.

I think I could say I'm feeling convicted - though I hate how that word can be thrown around. On the other hand - it's a very personal and present sense of what I need to do.

Does that make any sense to anyone?
Sure it does Hope ;)
Love Jerry

[SpinningHead]

I used to live in New Mexico and Halloween was indeed celebrated as a day for the devil and terrible things always happened in the desert...from animal remains to other horrifying stuff. The stuff that went on ruined it for me...

But now I still love the fun, silly, goofy stuff that it can be...spooky stupid movies (Nightmare before Christmas, The Great Pumpking, the Corpse Bride), silly house decorations (not those gory zombies things!!) crazy costumes (hubby once was Judge Ito at his own Halloween party), Halloween parties! (costume contests w/ scratch tickets for best costumes), crazy Halloweeny food (someone made a purple brain from a jello mold w/ sugar eyes...we also had jello shots w/ gummie worms at the bottom but we won't go into that...long time ago! ahem...:rolleyes: )

Now I live in the woods and my house is really scary to little kids not to mention by big puppy-dawg happily barking b/c she thinks someone has come to play w/ her...She's a great dane so the little kids always misinterpret her barks as warnings that she will eat them.

I say keep the fun innocent stuff and throw the rest away!

[mirror]

When I was growing up, Halloween was just silly fun! About 8 years ago, a Wiccan friend of mine (insert shock :eek: here that a Christian would dare to have a Wiccan friend... that's what our pastor thought anyway) commented on why Christians would celebrate a pagan holiday. Her comments bothered me, and, thinking that as a Christian I was giving a wrong impression to the world, we stopped celebrating altogether. No trick-or-treating for the kids, no carving pumpkins, no attending church Halloween parties. We were attending that church at the time, and we (hubby & I) held a fall party in October for the teens at the church, but it was not similar in any way to Halloween (no dress up, etc... we held a costume party in winter or spring). On Halloween we'd stand ready at the door with a bag of treats and a tract to hand out to the kids who came to our door (usually about 40 - 50 each year). Don't worry, it wasn't a "Halloween is evil" tract! :D

When we left that church, we were forced to look at ourselves and the things we did that could be considered legalistic! Halloween popped up. I realized I had based my "belief" on what one single person had said. So last year, for the first time, our 3 youngest kids (ages 10, 12, & 14) got to carve pumpkins! They also decided to TP our front yard! LOL! I wasn't ready to allow trick-or-treating yet, but I am this year! My kids are thrilled! So is hubby! He supported me in this, but he had very fond memories of his own Halloweens growing up, and since Halloween was a holiday that hearalded in his birthday (Nov 3), it was especially special!

I'm not in any way saying that everyone who chooses not to celebrate Halloween is legalistic! I'm just saying that in our case it was! I'm impressed with those who take that stand. I know from experience that that choice is just asking for persecution. The leader of the younger kids at our church, for example, was continually complaining to the pastor that we refused to support her because we didn't allow our kids to attend her annual Halloween party. We tried to explain to her, but she refused to listen... and the pastor was no help either, because she was one of the members that he would lean over backwards to be sure she stayed - even to the point of allowing her to constantly disobey the dress code by wearing shorts or pajama pants (neither of which were allowed AT ALL at that church, but female leaders were supposed to always wear dresses while teaching... except for her). He would often bring me in to "discuss" our being more supportive of her leadership. :mad:

[jane]

My broom is thrown out because I no longer believe in housework, it is against my religion..;)


The orange frosting is used to make a belt around the bottom of the kiss-- here's what you do; turn the cookie upside down so that it is all chocolate. Put frosting under the kiss, stick it down; then frost a ribbon like belt around where they meet!.



We didn't celebrate halloween either- our church had a "hallelujah party". They actually do a great job giving kids an alternative opportunity. We were competitive and often one the ribbons. My Caleb was 1 1/2 when He went dressed in a fig leaf with another little toddler who was being "eve"... the last time he was a beautiful handmade rooster that crowed when Peter denied christ 3 time (Peter played by Petie the pastor's son...).

We won't be attending any more.

We were trying to decide what to do. Trick or treating still scares me and we have no neighbors anyway.

The local mall is doing a "trick or shop". The radio station will hand out bags and the kids go from store to store trick or treating, I figure that is the safest compromise.

Thanks all........it is an interesting topic to think about; How we have to rethink all of our values and decide what it is that we will do. I spent too long doing what I was "supposed" to do.

We are still trying to figure out what all those values and beliefs are....

jane

[Satscout]

My broom is thrown out because I no longer believe in housework, it is against my religion..;)

We were trying to decide what to do. Trick or treating still scares me and we have no neighbors anyway.

The local mall is doing a "trick or shop". The radio station will hand out bags and the kids go from store to store trick or treating, I figure that is the safest compromise.

One thing I have seen done is "trunk or treat", where a lot of parents volunteer their trunks to be treat stops, and the kids go (car) door to (car) door and then to a party after.

[Willow]

You made me think of a funny recipe I got today. It's a cat litter cake. You make it in a cat litter pan and use tootsie rolls for the turds... haha.

[jane]

WOW I have NOT heard about that one! I have seen graveyard cakes, blue jello in fish bowls with gummy fish, "dirt" cakes, a pudding and crunch concoction that tastes grate in a plant pot....but that one tops it all!

I think I will make it for my family on April fools day!!!!!! hehehehe...

jane

[mirror]

We were trying to decide what to do. Trick or treating still scares me and we have no neighbors anyway.
We don't go to neighbors, except ones we trust. For safety's sake, we will be driving the kids to friends relatives homes.

[Willow]

Jane... here's the recipe :)

I have a pic too, but not sure how to show it here.

CAKE INGREDIENTS:
1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 box of white cake mix
1 package white sandwich cookies
1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix
A few drops green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls or equivalent

SERVING "DISHES AND UTENSILS"
1 NEW cat-litter box
1 NEW cat-litter box liner
1 NEW pooper scooper

1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie

crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.

2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl.
Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make
the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour in
mixture.

3) Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable.
Shape the blunt ends into slightly curved points. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white

cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over
top.

4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable and hang it over the edge of the box. Place box

on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper. Enjoy!

[Carmen]

Ha! Ha! Willow! :D The recipe sounds great but I might opt to serve it in a normal cake pan and use the normal utensils. We HAVE a cat, complete with litter box, the associations are just too close to home. The kids might be willing to eat it like you describe, but I am the one that cleans the litter box. That would definitely "trigger" too many memories. :) :) :) ;) :p