The Halloween party went off pretty flawlessly in spite of the fact that we did only about half the things we planned. It is yet another bit of support for my party tossing philosophy of keepin' it simple never fails. We have "parties" frequently. Sometimes practically no one comes; sometimes every darn person I invite shows up, and the house is literally teeming with people. Always, it's wonderful.
This party was an "in between party": about half the people we invited showed up. Bobbing for apples did not happen, but foam swords in the back yard and interesting parallel play among the medium kids (8-10) and the babies (4-6) happened like magic in the play room. I held myself back from interrupting their spontaneous, organic, unstructured fun to force our scheduled structured fun on them. They had fun and left happy. YAY!
I was unable to procure creepy goodies, something I really wanted to make, and didn't have many snacks on hand. Throughout the day (little kids were at my house from 11 a.m. til about 4 or so, and big kids came and went across that time right up until 11 p.m.), as the little kids wanted something to nibble on or something, I would just hand them a banana or an apple, and that went over fine. Also, I had no punch or juice, so I just gave them water. I think that went over so well only because we drink from jars in our house, so they were fascinated by the fact that they were drinking from duck sauce jars, jam jars, salsa jars, etc. And the different shapes and sizes let them sort of compare how much they had and talk about capacity -- ah -- science? math? something. They had fun. haha.
Later, the big kids and grown ups came and pumpkin carving, yummy tea drinking, tasty wine imbibing, pumpkin seed toasting, pizza eating, and general superchill goodtimes happened. Almost all courtesy of one sweet boy named Shawn, who was an amazing partner in making a lovely night lovelier!
More later -- my time to get to work timer just rang.
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