Scary Pumpkins

When you live with a two year old, Halloween is a holiday of great contradictions.

While the event is hyped as the ultimate ghoulish, Day of the Dead, All Saints Day, Gothic, creepy night, all of that is hard to imagine with a two year old carving her version of a scary pumpkin. Then comes the horror of Abigail making her scary face!

(The pumpkin, incidentally, is from Perkins).

As other kids walked up Sweet Street hill dressed as ghouls, vampires, ghosts, and even half-dead zombies with the skin sliding off of their faces to reveal empty eye sockets and skulls, Abigail decides to be the purple cat from "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Eric Carle.

To add to all the weirdness, as I'm typing up this blog entry, the 1979 seminal goth anthem "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus comes on the internet radio. I turn the volume up rather loud. Then Julie comes up stairs and shares with me that Abbey was digging the song and dancing about the living room.

Spooky.