Halloween Nonsense

This will not be organized. I'm way to excited for organization.

Here is a picture of me from Halloween's in the past.

 
I hope you enjoy. I look the same. 

I just want to take a moment to view some nostalgic Halloween things.

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

 

TIA AND TAMARA

 

Halloweentown (forever my favorite)

 

the best cereals

 

carving pumpkins (and being crafty)

 

SUGAR

That's just a few. I'm seriously going crazy right now from all the sugar and excitement of today.

My friends are wonderful. Today was perrrrfect.


I love holidays. Halloween is especially fabulous. 
 

A History of Halloween

Are you ready? I'm super ready!

For whatever reason, I actually enjoy doing a little research on things. So, what could be more fitting than doing a little research on the origin of Halloween? NOTHING.

Once upon a time, on a dark stormy night... 

Just kidding. That's not how Halloween started. {I don't think. I guess it could have been raining... I wasn't there.}

Halloween probably came from a Celtic festival called Samhain (pronounced 'sah-win'), that marked the end of summer. [For us down here in Alabama and Georgia, it still feels like summer.] These festivals usually involved a bonfire, because bonfires are great and everyone loves s'mores. {That may or may not be the actual reason, but I think it has some pretty strong support.} They believed that on October 31, the dead and living worlds overlapped, allowing the dead to com back to life (spooky).

Costumes are quite possibly the most exciting part of Halloween (aside from being on a sugar high all day). The Celts also started the tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween. They believed if they disguised themselves, the spirits wandering around during Samhain wouldn't noticed them.


Trick-or-treating developed separately from Celtic traditions. FUN FACT: It was first called "souling". In medieval Ireland and Britain, poor people would walk around to other people's homes on Hallowmas [November 1]. People would give the beggars food as long as they promised to pray for the dead on All Souls Day [November 2].

Somehow, by magic probably, all of these thing came together to create the Halloween we know today. {It probably wasn't magic, sadly. It was most likely the nifty way that Americans have of taking things, turning them into their own, and making a million things for you to buy.}

More Fun Facts (about Halloween):

• Halloween is the second highest commercial holiday after Christmas.
• Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.
• Other names for Halloween include All Hallow's Eve, Witches Night, Lamswool, Snap-Apple Night, Samhain, and Summer's End.
• Halloween may also have been influenced by the Roman festival celebrating the harvest goddess, Pomona.
• The word "bonfire" come from Druid priests who threw the bones of cows into the large fires during Samhain. 
• Halloween has been around for 6,000 years. 
• A lot of countries see Halloween has overly commercialized by Americans.

Now, you have been educated. You can enjoy your festivities tomorrow and surprise people with this new knowledge you possess.

  

Halloween Puppy Chow

This is the first of several Halloween posts. Prepare yourself.

Puppy chow. Muddy buddies. White Trash. I've heard a lot of different names for it, but it's always just as amazing (and almost addictive... what?)

This is a food. {People give you the funniest looks when you tell them you're eating puppy chow.} 

Since it's almost Halloween (and I'm on a time crunch tonight), I thought I'd share my favorite recipe for puppy chow with a Halloween twist.

Warning: This a messy recipe, but trust me, it's definitely worth it. {It tastes fabulous.}

Ingredients:

• 9 cups Chex cereal
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups candy corn
• 1 1/2 cups Reese's Pieces
• 2 cups pretzels

Directions:

1. Melt the chocolate chips and add in the peanut butter. [I usually do this on the stove in a large pot, but you can do it in the microwave- be careful though because peanut butter burns easily]
2. Stir in vanilla.
3. Add the Chex to the peanut butter-chocolate mixer. Mix until all of the cereal is coated. [this seems difficult while you're doing it, but just keep mixing it in... it's not that hard]
4. Put the coated Chex in a large bag (zip-lock or paper bag). Add the powdered sugar, seal, and shake until coated.
5. Spread the cereal on wax paper to let it cool. [honesty time: I don't always do this, so it is okay to skip it]
6. Mix in candy corn, Reese's Pieces, and pretzels.

 

from: Sweet Treats and More

Et voila! You have a wonderful Halloween treat (or anytime. I would be okay with eating this anytime.)
 

Typical White Girl Moment

Everything is perfect.

Tomorrow is the first day of October, which means it is officially acceptable to start celebrating the greatest time of the year. IT'S FALL!

Pretty much everything gets better in the fall, and I am just in an incredibly wonderful mood thinking about how fabulous everything is right now. 

Like any good white girl, I am going to take this time to list why fall is actually the greatest.

• The weather. It's the ideal temperature for outside activities. Not to mention the disgusting southern humidity goes away.
• It's gorgeous! The leaves turn pretty colors and they get all crunchy so you can walk around smashing them. 

• Boots. I shamelessly wear my my cowgirl boots every single day.
• Fooooooootball- all weekend long {WDE}
• Halloween. You get to play dress up and eat candy. It doesn't get any better than that.

 

Last Halloween

• It actually feels good to sit out by a bonfire and stuff s'mores in your face.
• No more bikinis... You don't have shave every day and you can eat more to establish a layer of fat to keep you warm in the winter (logic.)
• Thanksgiving: a break from school, time with family, andddd...
• THE FOOD: pumpkin flavored things, hot chocolate, apple pie, tomato soup, turkey everyyyyything, delicious veggies, pecan pie, BBQ, candy corn and those little candy pumpkin things that no one ever knows the name of

• Pumpkin carving and other fun fall crafts
• It even smells good. There are all sorts of fall aromas in the air and some really lovely candles.
• It's socially acceptable to curl up in a blanket and watch movies all day.
• Fall just leads into the second greatest time of year {Christmas}

Just the idea of fall makes me extremely happy. I hope you all enjoy it and appreciate it as much as I do. 

Spend time with your family!

Go outside!

Read a book!

Fall is the best. I am ecstatic.