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ailbheLeaves and puddles and cold, wet feet; pinked-up knuckles and central heat; bobble hats and knitted mitts; This is Autumn, yes it is!
A little girl and a toddler girl will waddle through this winter with me, in boots and hats and gloves and scarves and hoods, and I can't wait. I want snow and chestnuts and huge, splashy puddles. I want hats with earflaps and gloves so big I can't bend my fingers. I want flasks of hot chocolate (we've had several of those already and boy are they a good idea!) and mornings with slippers and dressing gowns. I want winter!
I've already started trying to explain Halloween to Linnea, though I don't know quite how to have a proper one with bobbing for apples and so on. We always did when I was a child, and made costumes and went trick or treating. Trick or treating first, since you can't do it very well with wet hair.
I might invite a bunch of people over. It's a Wednesday. We could bob for apples in the baby bath, and coins in the washing up bowl, and have an apple on a string. Or perhaps people care enough about hygiene now that we'd have to have separate bowls for each family, or even each child... well, at least I can make a barm brack and put a ring in it. And perhaps colcannon as well; I bet the market will have kale.
Toddler trick-or-treating will have to be carefully managed. I can think of three houses on the street we can go to, definitely; I might start asking people if they'd mind, soon. People in this country can be very unpredictable about it, I've found. And the tricks tend to the malicious, rather than the amusing.
A little girl and a toddler girl will waddle through this winter with me, in boots and hats and gloves and scarves and hoods, and I can't wait. I want snow and chestnuts and huge, splashy puddles. I want hats with earflaps and gloves so big I can't bend my fingers. I want flasks of hot chocolate (we've had several of those already and boy are they a good idea!) and mornings with slippers and dressing gowns. I want winter!
I've already started trying to explain Halloween to Linnea, though I don't know quite how to have a proper one with bobbing for apples and so on. We always did when I was a child, and made costumes and went trick or treating. Trick or treating first, since you can't do it very well with wet hair.
I might invite a bunch of people over. It's a Wednesday. We could bob for apples in the baby bath, and coins in the washing up bowl, and have an apple on a string. Or perhaps people care enough about hygiene now that we'd have to have separate bowls for each family, or even each child... well, at least I can make a barm brack and put a ring in it. And perhaps colcannon as well; I bet the market will have kale.
Toddler trick-or-treating will have to be carefully managed. I can think of three houses on the street we can go to, definitely; I might start asking people if they'd mind, soon. People in this country can be very unpredictable about it, I've found. And the tricks tend to the malicious, rather than the amusing.
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Date: 2007-09-29 07:51 am (UTC)I found out last year that trick & treating (well treating) is a big thing here & Kate & Holly ended up with a giant bag of goodies that lasted about 6 months.
This year, I'm considering a wee party straight after school for children & parents & then we can all go trick & treating together.