Every Halloween I try to make a fun Halloween themed dinner. It isn't usually much, you just need to use your imagination. This year we had monster fingers that could be dipped in blood (breadsticks with slivered almond fingernails and pizza sauce) headless hens (just that . . . obviously they have no head), mashed mummy brains (mashed potatoes) and the scariest of all (at least for Luci) a really healthy salad topped with heart halves (sliced tomatoes). It turned out fun, but I think it will probably be funner as our family grows and gets more excited about it. Luci actually thought I was serious about what I was serving and was a little scared to eat it. So I had to spoil the fun and tell her what they really were.




Luci had two Halloween costumes this year. On Thursday we went trick or treating at the mall and she was a garden fairy. I even made her a wand out of a wooden spoon, but she didn't want to carry it. On Saturday we were cleaning out her closet and found a Cinderella dress and she decided she wanted to be that for trick or treating. It's fun getting her all dressed up, but a lot of work.