{"id":6316,"date":"2014-10-31T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2014-10-31T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:23:13","slug":"halloween-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/halloween-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SONY<\/a>As a young child, I loved Halloween. \u00a0I loved planning my costume and getting dressed up. \u00a0I loved wearing my costume everywhere: to school, for trick-or-treating and even in ballet class. \u00a0I loved trick-or-treating and of course the candy. \u00a0I loved spending time with my family and relished the opportunity to hang out with my cousins.<\/p>\n

But as I grew older, Halloween became less of a “thing” for me. \u00a0I don’t even remember what my costume(s) were in high school (I had a Renaissance maiden costume…) \u00a0I don’t remember going to parties or dressing up for school (or ballet class). \u00a0I\u00a0think<\/em> I continued to trick-or-treat with my cousins (who are 5 and 10 years younger than me). \u00a0But I really don’t remember.<\/p>\n

In college I don’t think I went to a single Halloween party or ever had a Halloween costume. \u00a0Our fall dance concert was always in mid-November and I was always engrossed in the chaos and excitement of that. \u00a0Or maybe I wasn’t cool enough to get invited?<\/p>\n

After college, when hubby and I set out on our own and became real adults, Halloween was just another day. \u00a0Our first year out of college, I was home alone Halloween night because hubby had class. \u00a0I went to ballet class then came home and made a cup-o-soup. \u00a0Which I spilled on my hand when I took it out of the microwave and spent the rest of the night on the couch, in the dark (I didn’t want trick-or-treaters coming to the door) with an aloe soaked paper towel on my horribly burned hand.<\/p>\n

\"DSC00561\"<\/a>It wasn’t until I became a mommy that my love of Halloween was rekindled. \u00a0I had a costume for the first time as an adult when Honeybun was a baby. \u00a0And while we didn’t get trick-or-treaters at our original Florida house or our Dublin house, I still made sure the girls had costumes and that we did\u00a0something<\/em> to celebrate (parties, community events, etc.)<\/p>\n

Our kids went trick-or-treating for the first time last year and while I didn’t have an official costume, I did proudly sport my sweet little Doodle spider.<\/p>\n

Since returning to Florida, we’ve slowly built up our Halloween decorations and now decorate both inside and out (though I don’t go over the top).<\/p>\n

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\"DSC04140\"<\/a>I like having something to celebrate and the build up to the holiday. \u00a0I love seeing my children get excited about their costumes and dressing up. \u00a0And I love that the past two years they’ve gotten to share it with our extended family as well. \u00a0I love that my\u00a0childhood\u00a0tradition of making Halloween a family holiday is continuing for my children and I hope that it stays that way.<\/p>\n

I’ll take any opportunity I can to spend time with our\u00a0family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a young child, I loved Halloween. \u00a0I loved planning my costume and getting dressed up. \u00a0I loved wearing my costume everywhere: to school, for trick-or-treating and even in ballet class. \u00a0I loved trick-or-treating and of course the candy. \u00a0I loved spending time with my family and relished the opportunity to hang out with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-ties","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}